Inspired by a legend from the contryside of Venezuela and Colombia. "Bolefuego" is the spirit of a woman that was burned alive in her home, along with her two children due to her inmoral behavior. She attacks travelers. Those facing her are advised not to pray; unlike other evil entities, the Bolefuego is attracted by prayers.

Instrumentation: two marimbas, two vibraphones, two glockenspiels and a bass marimba.

This piece was premiered by "Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon" @percussionsclaviersdelyon

This recording is from the general rehersal.

Photo by Louis Hansel @shotsoflouis on Unsplash

BOLEFUEGO for mallet percussion quintet (2020)

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

Contact: juanboca90@gmail.com
Venezuelan composer graduated from the Master in Latin American Musicology of the Central University of Venezuela and the Conservatory of Lyon. He has studied composition with Christophe Maudot, Stéphane Borrel, Alfredo Del Monaco, Diana Arismendi, Adina Izarra, Gerardo Gerulewics, among others. He has participated in master classes and lectures by William Bolcom, Richard Dubugnon, Robert Normandeau, José Manuel López López, Jean-Marc Duchenne. He has also received various awards and honorary mentions in national competitions of composition and musicology and his music has been selected in several international festivals such as the ICMC 2021 (Chile), VI Festival de Música Electroacústica(Chile), Festival Espace du son 2020 (Belgium), MUSLAB 2020 (Mexico), II Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas 2020 (Mexico), I Festival Atemporanea 2019 (Argentina), at the JNME 2019 as part of the XL MANCA festival (France), the Latin American Music Festival 2016 (Venezuela), among others. His acousmatic work "Desde adentro" was a finalist at the Concours Métamorphoses 2020.

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Composer, lyricist, published poet, sound artist, improviser, recording artist. Since 1998.

Also known as @ajkaufmann.

BOLEFUEGO for mallet percussion quintet (2020)

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