Electric guitar, percussion, sruti, and live electronics (2020).

Layered improvisations inspired by Malkauns raga in times of isolation and all forms of decay.

In Malkauns and Seclusion

For flute, clarinet, and percussion (2014).

First piece of the Replenishment cycle. Lassitude is about the moment of maximum tiredness before sleeping. The relationship between the music and the concept is fully subjective.

Credits:
Cassie Lear - flute
Joel Auringer - clarinet
Shelby Blezinger - percussion

Recorded by Michael Smith at the University of North Texas.
Denton, TX. November 26, 2014.

Lassitude

For flute, clarinet, and percussion (2015).

Music inspired by the fear and stress roles of the amygdala. The relationship between the music and the concept is fully subjective.

Credits:
Cassie Lear - flute
Miguel Espinel - live processing

Recording: Seth Shafer
University of North Texas
Denton, TX. December 7, 2015

Amygdala

For viola, violoncello, string-prepared drum, and live electronics (2015).

Second of the Replenishment cycle. Somnolence is about the first stage of sleep. The relationship between the music and the concept is fully subjective.

Somnolence

For electric guitar and live electronics (2015).

Third piece of the Replenishment cycle. Dimming is about the second stage of non-REM sleep. The relationship between the music and the concept is fully subjective.

Dimming

Fixed media (2015).

Voces Cohabitantes uses stacked parallel processes on three field recordings at different moments from the same location (my former front porch). Inspired by the co-inhabitance of sounds everywhere.

Voces Cohabitantes

Fixed media (2017).

El Tiempo Crea y Destruye was made with real-time processing sessions of three recorded improvisations on prepared drum, maracas, and recorder, respectively.

El Tiempo Crea Y Destruye

Fixed media (2018).

Antropoceno was created with a collection of individual field sounds combined and processed in different ways alluding to the sounds of the anthropocene.

Original sound sources from:
Denton, TX (Univeristy of North Texas campus, UNT Music Building, Teasley Ln)
DFW Airport
Corvallis, OR
Eugene, OR

Antropoceno

Full orchestra (2019).

A piece about the destruction of cancer cells. The relationship between the music and the concept is fully subjective.

Extirpando La Amalgama

Miguel Espinel is a Venezuelan composer, performer, and improviser based in Denton, TX.

Also involved in Monte Espina, Oil Spill, The Watermelon is not Orange, Nahr Alhumam, Tangential Meandering.