Ópera para ensamble Pictograma del Brujo del compositor Juan José Bárcenas.

Ensamble Aleph de música contemporánea
Dirección general y musical: Francisco Muñoz

Proyecto realizado mediante el apoyo del Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales

1 Obertura PICTOGRAMA DEL BRUJO 01 Juan Jose Barcenas

flute and electroacoustics sounds.  
Performer:  wilfrido terrazas 

ABDUCTION  (BASS FLUTE AND ELECTROACOUSTICS SOUNDS) /JUAN JOSE BARCENAS

Conscious Sound (2013) for clarinet, piano, violin and cello.
Total Duration 7:40' minutes.

Ensemble Holophony Project
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Conscious Sound [cl pno vln vc]

Strange Attractors (2014)
Piano trio no. 1

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Performed by: Trio Atanassov 

Strange Attractors (2014)

Lorna Ruth Windsor, soprano
Divertimento Ensemble
dir. Sandro Gorli
Auditorium San Fedele, Milan, May 2nd 2011

ient (2011) for soprano and 12 musicians

Entre los años 2012-2103 escribí mi primer obra musical basada “conceptual y temáticamente” sobre el poema circular-cíclico de 584 endecasílabos “Piedra de Sol”, perteneciente al escritor mexicano Octavio Paz.

Mi obra musical, es un “trance”, basado en la arborescencia gigante que personifica dicho poema, lleno de: signos, objetos, instancias, tiempo, historias, personajes, espirales, generaciones, obsesiones y órdenes para referirse y nombrar al mundo moderno.

A mi ciclo de obras, pertenece:

1-Piedra de Sol ( un sauce de cristal ). /Orquesta
2- Rostro de llamas, rostro devorado. /Obra de sonidos electroacústicos (2013). ( en revisión).
3- Agamenón y su mugido inmenso… /Ensamble de cámara/ Cuarteto Mixto (2013-2014)
4- Rumor de luz. / Orquesta de Cámara.
(aún en proceso).

Interpretación por la Filarmónica 5 de Mayo​  , con la dirección de David Hernandez Breton​.

PIEDRA DE SOL  / ORQUESTA

Lento,  Amargo, Animal (-Slow, bitter animal- )
- For Chamber Ensemble - ( 2015).


Oboe, Bassoon, Harp, Accordion, Violin, Viola and Violoncello.

Slow, bitter animal.  (Chamber Ensemble)

Time Warping I ... et l'émergence de l'expression (2016)
for viola and live electronics

viola: Nicolas Loubaton

Time Warping I ... et l'émergence de l'expression

Die Bewegung der Zeit (2016)

Performed by the Basel Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Francesc Prat during the Basel Composition Competition.

... Die Bewegung der Zeit ...  for orchestra

Immersione in un laberinto di colori is a piece for six instrumentalists distributed in space.
It was composed in 2009 and premiered by the Asko|Schoenberg Ensemble in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  

Immersione in un labirinto di colori       ( 2009 )

Construct Synthesis [tape]

Juan José Bárcenas, was born in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico in April 26, 1982. He studied piano, theory and composition since 1989. Later, he studied Bachelor's degree in Music at INBA National Institute for Fine Arts with PhD. Felipe de las Casas, and after the Graduate Composition  with PhD. Mauricio Beltrán and PhD. Ignacio Baca-Lobera.

 

His chamber, electroacoustic-orchestral music and multimedia art is characterized by constant research and generation of elements, rhythms, gestures, colors, densities and dynamics emerged and led to  extremes parametrics;   exploring techniques such as microtonalism, integral serialism, algorithmic processes, programation of computer software and graphic approaches to composition.

 

As  composer, Bárcenas has some significant distinctions, performances, awards and honorable mentions:    Young Creator by the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA, México) 2005, The Young Creators Scholarships (Querétaro, México) 2004, Seoul Computer Music Festival (Korea) 2005, New Music International Forum "Manuel Enriquez" 2005-2007 & 2009, 2010. Radar Festival 2006, Queretaro Youth Prize 2005 (Government from the state Quéretaro, México), Festival Internacional Cervantino 2006 & 2007, 2010. Festival Santiago México 2007, Festival Cuenca Spain 2007, National Composition Prize Morelia, 2005 & 2007, Festival Forum Neuer Musik / Köln Germany 2009, International Composition Competition ALEA III 2009 (Boston University, USA), Contemporary Music Festival "Música Nueva Monterrey",  International Contemporary Art festival: León 2009, VII Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima, Perú. Festival Primavera en La Habana 2010, winner in   the First National Composition for  clarinet  2014 UNAM-Mexico, and winner in the prestigious Iberoamerican Rodolffo Halffter Prize in 2010.

 

 

He has received commissions from: Ensemble Integrales (Germany), Eva Zollner ( Germany), International Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Wilfrido Terrazas (México), Julian Elvira (Spain), International Festival Cervantino, México City Woodwind Quintet among others.

 

 

The Barcena´s works are numerous and varied in nature, ranging from multidiscipline-multimedia and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental pieces, his scores in number are more than fifty compositions. He currently lives in Queretaro-Mexico and since 2005, he has been teaching Music Analysis, Composition, Harmony and Ear Training as a full time professor at the Center for artistic education Queretaro, and in  the University center for  music creation U.AQ  (CUCM / UAQ ).  He is constantly involved in experimental art projects as a sound artist, art-video-multimedia performer in Mexico and abroad. His compositions have been performed in the following countries: Belgium, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Germany, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Perú, Portugal, The Netherlands, Spain, Venezuela, United Kingdom & United States.