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This Burning Mass - A Feast of Colours (2022) 
for Ensemble 

Commissioned for Riot Ensemble
by Britten Pears Arts for the 73rd Aldeburgh Festival 2022 
Premiere: 19th June 2022
Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk

This Burning Mass - A Feast Of Colours

Las cuatro estaciones. Haikus sonoros para Rosario es un proyecto de instalación sonora que surge durante el 2020 y el confinamiento, y que fue beneficiado con una Beca Creación del Fondo Nacional de las Artes en 2021.

Se trata de una obra sonora compuesta por cuatro piezas, dispuestas cada una en una caja de madera con objetos recolectados en cada estación y un haiku escrito (estilo de poesía minimalista japonés).  

La simpleza y minimalismo sonoro de nuestras ciudades durante la cuarentena, - momento en el cual nos replanteamos muchas cosas acerca de nuestra existencia – me recordó al haiku. Por ello pensé en componer sonoramente un haiku para cada estación del año, dentro del universo sonoro de la ciudad donde habito.

Otoño: tranquilidad, siembra,lo seco, melancolía.

Otoño - Las cuatro estaciones. Haikus sonoros para Rosario

Aleksander Gabryś - "Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Spheroid" (1998)

Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Spheroid

13 min rough cut of Under the Glacier for the U of Edinburgh Viking in the Sun project - featuring Supriya Nagarajan (vocals)

UnderTheGlacier13minversionROUGHCUT

Sound of the Sun, Volume I is the weird, entrancing, celebratory, sometimes gloomy, and somewhat euphoric summer mixtape of planetary travel, solar interventions, story telling, and frog choruses you didn’t know you needed for summer 2023.

As UNIT/PITT's first iteration of a multi-part project of sonic-celestial explorations, the Sound of the Sun project asks participants to consider their relationship to cycles of solar movement as the days lengthen on this half of the planet—to observe, respond, record, and retell through music, poetry, field recordings, storytelling, and any other audio-based methods in order to speak to this important time of the solar year.

Featuring sound works by 10 artists, Sound of the Sun, Volume I beckons the promise of sun-worship, long beach days, A/C, forest fires, and excess levels of Vitamin D.

Curated by Catherine de Montreuil and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes Recording, mastering, and project support from Nick Short
Artwork by Martin Steuck, Catherine de Montreuil, and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes

Absolute Value Of Noise - Circuits That Wake Up With The Sun

"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.

“GLORIETTA” 
for vocal ensemble & processed sounds by Aleksander & Ryszard Gabryś (2007)
recording live @ 2nd "Festival of World Premieres" - "Festiwal Prawykonań Polska Muzyka Najnowsza", Katowice (2007)
performers:  Zespół Śpiewaków Miasta Katowice "Camerata Silesia", conductor:  Anna Szostak

“GLORIETTA” for vocal ensemble & processed sounds by Aleksander & Ryszard Gabryś

2006- cl. fg. vc. cb. + soporte digital
Grabación en vivo del estreno CCParque España-AECID, Rosario 
PH Virginia Mantinian, adoquines del suelo en el exterior del CCParque de España.

Inane (2006)

Virginia Mantinian is a composer from Argentina. She holds a degree in composition from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Her production between 2007 and 2017 has been nourished by analogies between culinary and musical art. Recently, her interest has been redirected towards collaborative work and the sensitive dimension of the configuration of space in the imaginary using technologically mediated acoustic instruments. She is a member of the Red de Compositoras Latinoamericanas - redcLa.

Es Licenciada en composición por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Su producción entre 2007 y 2017 se ha nutrido de analogías entre el arte culinario y el musical. Actualmente su interés se ha visto redireccionado hacia el trabajo colaborativo y la dimensión sensible de la configuración del espacio en el imaginario utilizando los instrumentos acústicos mediados tecnológicamente. Es integrante de la Red de Compositoras Latinoamericanas - redcLa.

Inane (2006)

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