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

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.

"Trekking" (2023) for percussion quartet and electronics

LALA DISANDRO