BRIGHTER SUNS (2022) - for solo electric guitar and electronics

*IMPORTANT: you can listen to an improved version of this work following this link: juliozuniga.info/works/brighter_suns.html *


Nico Couck, electric guitar (Nadar Ensemble)
Live recording, May 21, 2022

BRIGHTER SUNS

Mov I Superficies

Pieza comisionada por el Kommas Ensemble, resultante de la convocatoria Revolte II para compositorxs de Latinoamérica. 2021

Estrenada en Colonia, Alemania en Octubre de 2021

Maruta Staravoitava - Flauta en Do/Bajo
Moritz Schneidewendt - Clarinete en Bb/Bajo
Ramón Gardella - Percusiones
Alberto Carneval Ricci - Piano
Francisco C. Goldschmidt - Guitarra Eléctrica
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba - Director

Sponsored by Musikfonds, Kunst Stiftung NRW, EVS Musikstiftung, ON – Neue Musik Köln and Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW.

In - Móvil

Los Gritos de Mexico, soundscape of Mexico City is a 30min sound piece by Félix Blume. 
http://www.felixblume.com/losgritosdemexico
A shorter version is available on Arte Radio. 
https://soundcloud.com/arte-radio-1/los-gritos-de-mexico
Download in Wave 48kHz 24bit on Freesound 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/260680/

This piece receive a special mention during the "Bienal of Radio from Mexico" and has been broadcasted on more than 30 radio, web-radio and on the Radia Network.

RESUME:
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.

The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.

In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.

The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city.  A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually. 

People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.

The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.

INTENTION
Most of the people in the world live in cities. The daily soundscape is in most of the case a continuous sound of traffic, close or distant. Mexico City has a series of sounds added to the background which make the specificity of the city: the cries and sounds of the street sellers are in most part responsible.
In the past, most cities had their own cries (as some classical music can testify, like ‘Les cris de Paris’ from Janequin). In Mexico City, this tradition has persisted until today,  but the government and general opinion is not in favour of them: street sellers are each time further away from the touristic center, advertising campaigns are done to make them disappear from the subway, and police operations block their access to the streets.

I would like to pay tribute to these Criers through a soundscape of Mexico City, that will become a sonorous memory of a time that sooner than later will disappear.

Los gritos de Mexico

premiered by Retro Disco on March 19, 2017 @ CCRMA, Stanford University

Retro Disco:
Simone Keller
Moritz Müllenbach
Samuel Stoll

Mineral (2017) /for Horn, Cello and Keyboard _Retro Disco

for ensemble, objects and electronics.
Recording of the premiere at Saint Jean d'Angély by ensembles Ars Nova and Proxima Centauri under the musical direction of Philippe Nahon.

Estela (2017)

Alistair/Fuensanta/José (demo)

Fuensanta Méndez - voice and double bass
Alistair Payne - trumpet
José Soares - alto saxophone

1. Jacintos (Ali/Fuen/José)
2. Noche (Fuensanta Méndez)
3. Yo te buscaba tanto (Fuensanta Méndez)
4. Foam (Alistair Payne)
5. Three fragments (José Soares/Fuensanta Méndez)

Amsterdam 2019 and 2020.

3. Yo te buscaba tanto

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Preview: Vincent Wikström über Studie II von Karlheinz Stockhausen

Nico Sauer über Serenade Nr. 10 "Gran Partita" von W. A. Mozart

2 hour tape dj set of African music.
https://www.dublab.com/archive/awesome-tapes-from-africa-06-24-19

Akodjenou Michel dit Amikpon et son groupe Folklorique Kpalogo de la Capitale / Gbegbé Akou / Amikpon
Gangbe Brass Band / Ye Mo No Ho / Gangbe
Sagbohan Danialou / Mietonou We / Homage aux Forces Armées Benoinoises
Sezenmon Allossee / Vi Gbema Kplon Nou Me / Vol 5
Akoha Ambroise / Crise Est La / Todema
Kiri Kanta / Gangangan / Ingen Mindassan
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Jac’oho / Mandonoude / Houenoukpo
Allevi / Gnonnou Ho Wa / Toba Si Sle Vol 12
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / Ya Bara 
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / 
soun Binin Sara
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / Dadon Gabou Yo Sabe 
Mama Franco / Dadon Ga Bouyo / Collection Beninpassion Vol 3
Sagbohan Danialou / Chaffeur / Musique Traditionnelle du Benin
Sagbohan Danialou / Zanglantangoun / Musique Traditionnelle du Benin
Stan Tohon & the Tchink System / Intox / Tchink Attack
Stan Tohon / Djohoundo / La Force Tranquille
H2Origines / Animé / Assouka
Stan Tohon / Africa Foot / La Force Tranquille
Agodou Y. Basile et son groupe Aloto Alome / Ojle We Nulepo / Oho Magan Den
Gbeze et son Group Tchingoumin d’Aklampa / Adjinakou Guelou 
T.P Orchestre Poly-Rythmo / David Djinto / Vol 4

Awesome Tapes From Africa on Dublab - Female Voices Special 06/24/19

Asymptotic Freedom I - for six electric guitars

This is the first version of the piece (Asymptotic Freedom II – is going to be a one-hour long piece and performed in different rooms of the same building). 

The piece is created in close collaboration with my friends, wonderful musicians Chris Moy, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, Francesco Palmieri, Samuel Toro Pérez, Giuseppe Mennuti and Alejandro Tentor.

Special thanks to Yaron Deutsch for his support and curation of the project.

The project is commissioned by the studio la Muse en Circuit, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

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