"Inland Voices" (2022) for solo Alto Flute.
Performer: Valentina Arango Sánchez.
Live recording on July 25th 2022, University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A. at the Mizzou International Composer Festival.
Link full concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHh_LE0FRA&t=1464s

"Inland Voices" (2022) for solo Alto Flute.

"Lit Little Crystal Houses" (2022) for Bass Clarinet, Double Bass and Piano.
Performed and recorded by Low Frequency Trio Ensemble.
Commissioned by Ibermúsicas.
Link to Youtube video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKRK1YAmVMQ
Full concert at Americas Society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66lD6yBI4Y
Full video concert at University of New Mexico:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNTKPs2VKY

Composer Notes:
Lit Little Crystal Houses se refiere a la fragilidad de una casa a punto de colapsar luego del incendio: el sonido de cristales crujientes, de la madera todavía enfriándose. Vives en un lugar extremadamente frágil que nunca sabes cuando desaparecerá en millones de partículas de vidrio. De día es sofocante por el calor y la excesiva luz. De noche, helada volviéndose de transparente a opaca por tu propia respiración. Pero en realidad esta casa es un invernadero. Su interior está lleno de plantas salvajes que se abren lugar por cualquier lado y por sobre cualquier cosa. Sus raíces son imposibles de arrancar, están arraigadas tan profundamente que te lastimas al intentarlo. Hay tanta vegetación ahí dentro que te deja sin oxígeno. Una naturaleza tan salvaje que te podría devorar, absorber en tan solo un momento.
Mi casa de cristal se encuentra suspendida en el aire, flotando muy cerca del suelo, elevándose milimétricamente cada día.

"Lit Little Crystal Houses" (2022) for Bass Clarinet, Double Bass and Piano.

"Perception Game" (2020) for Oboe and Bb Clarinet.
Performers: Eduardo Spinelli (Cl.) and Christian Kemper (Ob.)
Live recording on March 25th 2023 at ORT, Wuppertal, Germany.
Photo by Jorge Peñaranda.

Composer notes:
When the same material is repeated and developed in a continuous and prolonged way throughout the discourse, our perception can focus on diverse aspects and finds the possibility of exploring other sensitive planes. This way, the work seeks to question what happens the moment our wonder at certain sound stimulus comes to an end, or what happens when it ceases to be novel. In spite of the historical distance, we could associate this with Descartes’s ideas exhibited in his treatise Passions of the Soul where he expresses that the wonder is intricately related with the idea of surprise and novelty, and has the purpose of taking into account the objects we consider strange and extraordinary in order to preserve and retain them. He also states: “... when it is excessive, and causes us to arrest our attention solely on the first image of the objects which are presented, without acquiring any other knowledge of them, it leaves behind it a custom which disposes the soul in the same way to pause over all the other objects which present themselves, provided that they appear to it to be ever so little new. And this is what causes the continuance of the malady of those who suffer from a blind curiosity–that is, who seek out things that are rare solely to wonder at them, and not for the purpose of really knowing them” (Descartes, 1649).
Somehow, the work proposed seeks to delve deeply in what the discourse of sound can express as a whole, which not only includes what takes place in the work from a sound-plane perspective, but also attempts to stop and perceive what music triggers in a more sensitive plane.

"Perception Game" (2020) for Oboe and Bb Clarinet.

"Terraza" (2023) for Flute, Bb Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and two Percussionists.
Performer: New Music Ensemble.
Live recording on February 26th of 2023 at the University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.
Link full concert: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEWjWFJk5w&t=6s

"Terraza" (2023) for ensemble.

The walking trail "Fuente de la Bicha" in Granada, Spain is a place where people go for doing sports: walking, running, riding bicycles, etc. People in groups or alone, with their families and friends, young people, old people with walking sticks or children with their pets use to go on Sundays to take some fresh air and renew for the new week that is coming. I used to go there, sit in a bench to take some fresh air, renew the oxygen of my disturbed brain, and one day I decided to make a recording of that sonorous landscape as a souvenir. "Trekking" intends to transform that moment of my past that was captured in that recording into something impossible to exist. Other soundscapes recordings made in the countryside of Galicia, Spain and a percussion quartet contributed to create this imaginary world and telling the story.

Trekking (2023) for percussion quartet and electronics was commissioned by the Sinquefield Commissions through the Mizzou New Music Initiative. It was premiered at the Sheryl Crow Hall at the University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A. on March 12th 2023 by the Mizzou Percussion Ensemble.

Link to video concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc6yWfrUrZo&t=443s

"Trekking" (2023) for percussion quartet and electronics

Bienvenidas y bienvenidos al segundo y último episodio del podcast mujeres y música nueva, parte de la programación de este espacio recientemente rebautizado como el Encuentro de Creación Sonora: Mujeres y Música Nueva. 

Este podcast es un acto colaborativo entre creadoras que buscan amplificar las voces, las ideas y las acciones transformadas en sonido de artistas que, como ellas mismas, se han dedicado a desarrollar espacios sonoros comunitarios, divergentes y retadores a puro de esfuerzo y dedicación. 

Como la misma vida, las voces se entremezclan en tiempos distintos, sonidos presentes y pasados, pero buscando siempre mantener conversaciones abiertas para seguir co creando. Hoy escucharemos las voces de: Paula Mesa (Argentina), Juliana Moreno (Argentina) y Valeria Valle Martínez (Chile), y la música (en orden de aparición) de: 

Gabriela Ortiz (México) - "Antrópolis”
Patricia Martínez (Argentina) - “A state of divinity”
Estefanía Lambuley Murcia (Colombia) “Quisieron enterrarnos pero no sabían que éramos semilla”
Gabi Yaya (Argentina) - “Suspendida” (Inspirada en Adela Guffanti)

Producción y realización: Encuentro de Creación Sonora: Mujeres y Música Nueva
Conducción: Macri Cáceres

Podcast "Mujeres y música nueva"

Triskelion (2023) - for flute, violin and cello

Performed by Achrome Ensemble
Conductor: Marcello parolini 

Published by Lumi Edizioni
https://www.lumiedizionimusicali.it/shop/triskelion---maria-vittoria-agresti-partitura-e-book-pdf/

Unofficial Demo, live recording on April 13 2023
Sala Piatti, Bergamo

Flute: Antonella Bini
Violin: Elia Leon Mariani
Cello: Matilde Pesenti

Triskelion (2023) - for flute, violin and cello

If you live in a box and you take a bath, when you drop your head into the water, you can hear your neighbors. Their stunning noises, their horrible music, their clumsy steps, the stupid things they are doing. They talk in any language but yours. They scream, they laugh, they fuck, they argue, they break things, they cry, they get older. You hate them because they are living with you in that bath. Sometimes, if you live in a box and you take a bath, when you drop your head into the water you can also hear your breath, your heart, your blood, your bowels.
If you lived into the sea and you dropped your head into the water you would hear silence and the noise of the chains of some distant ship. You can’t hear yourself, your breath, your heart, your blood, your bowels. You would feel fresh water with no waste of your body floating around. And, of course, you wouldn ́t hear the stupid things that your neighbors do. Those things that you hate so much because you know are the same stupid things you always do.

Living in a Box (2023) for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, and piano was premiere by the Barcelona Modern Ensemble in the Sala Cambra of the Conservatori Superior Liceu at the Festival de Música Contemporània i Nova Creació on June 22nd of 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
This work was composed in the framework of the International Course of Composition Barcelona Modern 9º edition and is especially composed for the Barcelona Modern Ensemble.
Living in a Box is the third and last part of what I denominated "Set of Houses" and it is inspired in the apartment I lived in the United States: 1133 Ashland Road, apartment 911, MO.

Link concert video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcCtkfpTl3w

"Living in a Box" (2023) for ensemble

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Taller de Composició Encontres 2024
Maria Laura Disandro
"Mi cuerpo ha generado una perla en su interior"
Carlota Cáceres, percussion.
Esteban Belinchón, cello.

Maria Laura Disandro Mi cuerpo ha generado una perla en su interior

María Laura Disandro is an Argentinian composer. She studied Musical Composition at the National University of Córdoba, in Argentina; the Master´s Degree in Musical Heritage imparted by the University of Granada, University of Oviedo and International University of Andalucía, in Granada, Spain; and the Master in Music (Composition) in the University of Missouri, in Columbia, U.S.A.
​She has participated in numerous courses, seminars, forums, festivals and workshops taking master classes with internationally renowned composers, such as Martín Matalón, Yann Robin, Valerio Sannicandro, Jaime Reis, Hilda Paredes, Mark Andre, Michael Maierhof, Mathias Spahlinger, Juan Carlos Tolosa and Gabriel Valverde. She has worked with diverse ensembles such as Neo Ensemble, Trama Ensemble, Nonsense EVS and Suono Mobile from Argentina; Taller Sonoro Ensemble and Barcelona Modern Ensemble from Spain; Collective Love Music Ensemble from France; Kommas Ensemble from Germany, LF3 from México, and the String Quartet of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from the U.S.A.
Her works has been performed in several countries such as Argentina, México, United States, Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany.

"Living in a Box" (2023) for ensemble

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