Name: 19 images of breath and space by Miggy Torres
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: 19 images of breath and space is an exploration of sound, gesture, and the intimate physical interaction between performer and instrument. It was written in collaboration with flutist Justine Stephens over the during a residency we shared at Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat in Meshoppen, PA in the summer fo 2017.

Loneliness //【﻿Ｅｆｆｕｌｇｅｎｔ Ｍｅｍｏｒｙ】

ensemble: string quartet
duration: 5 minutes
written: winter 2022
written for: Kuttner Quartet
premiered: May 6, 2022; Bloomington, IN

Note: 

“Far, far from everything, throw behind you a comb, a forest will grow”
                 - Far West, Czeslaw Milosz

	I have been a native east coaster for most of my life, having only made it to the other side of this country for the first time a little over three years ago. My first impression of the land was the simultaneous beauty and violence of it all; mountain ranges shooting out of seeming nowhere, the gnarly twisting and tangling of the trees. In making these trips, there is a sense that I am somehow part of the mythical American tradition of “going west” and becoming enraptured in the grandness of it all. I feel as though I am seeing the California landscape through the (sometimes romantic) lenses of John Muir, Walt Whitman, Ansel Adams, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Kerouac.  

	Far West is a sort of musical mediation on the beauty, stillness, and aesthetics of experiencing the natural wonders of the west.

        The piece is dedicated to Ellie Schwartzman and Josh Coleman, in gratitude

more info: http://www.robertrankinmusic.com/farwest

Far West: for string quartet

Travels in Hyperreality (2023) for Amplified String Quartet

Performance by The Mivos Quartet (Olivia De Prato, violin; Maya Bennardo, violin; Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola; TJ Borden, cello)

Premiered 11 July 2023, at the VIPA Festival in Valencia, Spain.

Audio by Emmanuel Berrido and Miggy Torres

i. Holo
ii. impulse//response
iii. VHS - [Iridescent Chaconne]

Travels in Hyperreality draws inspiration from an eponymous essay by novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco (1932-2016): there exists a phenomenon in which the boundary between reality and its representation is invisibly blurred, such that it becomes difficult or impossible to distinguish between the two. This state—in which the representation of reality becomes more real than reality itself—Eco called hyperreality, and it penetrates countless facets of our daily lives.

The work you are listening to today explores hyperreality poetically through various manifestations of illusory sound—sounds that sound like a thing they are not—creating “false” hyperrealities that cyclically burgeon, effloresce, and decay across three continuous movements.

The first of these, Holo, is primarily concerned with creating a kind of illusory dimensionality, much like how a hologram encodes three-dimensional information on two-dimensional space. Here, a multidimensional sound-object is transformed in higher virtual dimensions and then projected down through the ensemble and into the hall.

By contrast, impulse//response, the second movement, investigates psychoacoustic phenomena surrounding how sound influences our perception of space in the physical world. Throughout the movement, the listener is immersed in an illusory space, born of false echoes and manufacted reverb.

VHS – [Iridescent Chaconne], the third movement, echolalically closes the work. As the meditative harmonies progress and fold onto themselves, they begin to lose meaning and the false veneer of hyperreality begins to peel away. Like an ancient cassette tape, the embedded reality degrades entirely into dust, allowing the listener to hear it for what it truly is.

Cheers.

Travels in Hyperreality

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염원 Longing for Alto voice, Clarinet in Bb, Viola, Cello, Percussion and Piano (2019)
Text based on the poem "거문고 Geo-mun-go" written by Korean poet Young Rang Kim.
Composed by Jeewon Kim

Premiered on March 26, 2019 at Ades Performance Hall in Manhattan School of Music 

Voice- Emily Park
Clarinet- Juhyun Lee
Viola- Seho Ha
Cello- Clara Cho
Percussion- Julie Choi, Riley Barnes
Piano- Alberto Menjon
Conductor- Ken Yanagisawa

Recorded by Alex Held

염원 Longing (ensemble, 2019)

Recorded by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago Jan 2019

On Canvas

«Ataxia» (2019) [studio recording]
for English horn and live electronics

English horn: Jake Gunnar Walsh

Written for and commissioned by Jake Gunnar Walsh

Audio editing, mixing and mastering: Felipe Tovar-Henao

April 28, 2019.
@ CECM, Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN - USA

Official website: www.felipe-tovar-henao.com
Soundcloud: @felipetovarhenao
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/felipe.tovar.henao/

«Ataxia» (2019) for English Horn and live electronics

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Fragments for Orchestra(2020)

Memory has its own unique fluidity. As it encounters time, it disappears, gets merged or shattered into pieces, and even gets distorted by entirely changing its color rather by itself or from external factors.
This piece discovers the process about how fragments of memory form, collapse, and recontextualize through chronological order by exploring new musical extents.

Premiered on Feb. 23rd. 2020 at Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music

Composer - Jeewon Kim
Conductor - Jayce Ogren 
MSM Composers' Orchestra

Fragments (orchestra, 2020)

19 images of breath and space is an exploration of sound, gesture, and the intimate physical interaction between performer and instrument. It was written in collaboration with flutist Justine Stephens over the during a residency we shared at Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat in Meshoppen, PA in the summer fo 2017.

19 images of breath and space

KK Cruisin witthe original "animalese" lyrics. This was made during a series of Twitch streams over on Twitch.tv/SheepwaveTV

19 images of breath and space

Miggy Torres

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