Written for and performed by pianist Ben Smith at 'MUSICON: Eternal Returns' on 9.6.2021.

Many thanks to Simone Tarsitani, Eric Egan and Musicon, Durham University for the recording.

Watch the full concert here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX8WNkc2VM&t=1527s

This piece is in dialogue with an earlier work of mine, 'flicker': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4RQoseTp7Y

flare (2021)

June 2021, Paris 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhhsNXbRvU

Day Was Departing _ For Tenor, Electronics and Video

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

The European fire-bellied toad is, in fact, a frog. (No fire, either.) However, this is more than compensated by its satisfyingly fun-to-say Latin name: Bombina bombina. They also produce antimicrobial peptides in their skin secretions – the even more fun-to-say ‘bombinins’. 

Native to eastern mainland Europe – recorded here in the protected land of Poland’s Barycz Valley Landscape Park – they use their internal vocal sacs to produce their “whoop” call: the mournful, slow-motion honk immortalized here. Imagine the sound that clowns might make when they cry and you won’t be far off.

Bombina bombina mysterious call

More on this 567th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Three Meters (The Assignment: Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures) — at: https://disquiet.com/0567/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “three rulers, colorful photograph” was the prompt.

flamed three

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Trio AntiquaNova - Distat Terra Festival 2022

Bass Flute: Rosario Castillo
Bass Clarinet: Griselda Giannini 
Contrabass: Edgardo Vizioli

waning (2022)

Released December 11, 2022
https://scalq.bandcamp.com/album/5055360

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Two rigs simultaneously recording the same dawn within the same landscape, located about half a kilometre apart. The beautiful calls of a Pied Butcherbird can be heard from each location. Its first two sequences of calls are nearer to the first location (Perspective 1), in the background of a flurry of foreground bird activity. Its third sequence of calls are very near to the second location (Perspective 2), within a rather different soundscape mood. But all three sequences are heard from both locations, either as distant or as near.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

Related playlist: https://soundcloud.com/frgtests/sets/lewitt-double-nos-examples

2023.10.29 Mallee Dawn in Spring with Pied Butcherbird: Perspective 2

Britten Sinfonia
Milton Court, Barbican Centre
April 2024

With this work, I’m starting a series of pieces called ‘Invocations’ in which I aim to explore how the human voice can emerge organically from within the ensemble and be portrayed in different facets because I’m interested in contrasting the human quality of uniqueness and rawness of voice against music instruments.

Each invocation is dedicated to something or someone. This first one is dedicated to the Hermit, which is my major arcana archetype in the Tarot according to Numerology. Whether we believe it or not, I’m particularly attracted to its poetic and symbolic dimension, as in the one who needs to descend into darkness and step into the unknown withdrawing themselves from noise. Within this solitude, they need to manage to light up their own lantern, to get to the essence of things and emerge again from silence with their blood transformed into the oil of their own lantern.

Invocación n.1: A mi arcano, El Ermitaño

Written for the 'Hyperorgan' at Orgelpark, Amsterdam. Performed by Ere Lievonen (15.02.20)

The Path Contorts as the Traces Fade

Upcoming Collaborations & Concerts:

Spectral-Pop @ Ircam's Espace de Projection, Paris. 16.02.2023

Holding Present w/ Ictus Ensemble&Ula Sickle @Concertgebouw Brugge, Brugge. 04.06.2023

Holding Present w/Ictus Ensemble&Ula Sickle @ Centre Pompidou, Paris. 16-18. 06. 2023

w/Konus Quartett @ MusikFestival Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 07.09.2023

w/Ensemble Nikel @ Swiss Music Prizes Award Ceremony, Bern. 08.09.2023

w/Ensemble Nikel @Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK 19.11.2023

Chorei @ Yeni ve En Yeni Music Festival, Istanbul, w/Hezarfen Ensemble. 25.02.2024

 Holding Present @  Bozar, Brussels (BE) 25.03.2024 

Holding Present w/Ula Sickle & Ictus Ensemble @ Tanzhaus Nrw Dusseldorf. 02 -03. 03. 2024

w/Konus Quartett @ Reid Hall, Paris , 21.04.2024

w/Konus Quartett @ Cafe Oto, London. 23.04.2024

Holding Present @ Stuk House for Image, Movement and Sound, Leuven (BE) 08.05.2024 

Solo show @ Ircam's Espace de Projection. Paris. 15.06.2024

Holding Present w/Ictus Ensemble & Ula Sickle @ Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria. September 2024.

New work commissioned by Klangspuren Schwaz, September 2024

Day Was Departing _ For Tenor, Electronics and Video

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