Video of the performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05lIXxDNXMI
Johannes Haase – violin
Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de la Serena (cuerdas)
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba – dirección 
La Serena, 8 de septiembre, 2023
Veredas (2023)
With the support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

veredas

Video of the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on54rcQTMd0
Performers: RHEA (robotic piano), Winfried Ritsch: constructor of the robotic piano, PD programmer.
Computer p  was composed for the Robotic Piano Workshop leaded by Peter Ablinger and Winfried Ritsch at the University of Huddersfield in October 2015. One of the aims of the piece is to "de-pianify" the piano (to make it sound as something else) by using flows of sound that gradually appear and disappear, going from niente to piano and again to niente. This somewhat utopic behavior (given the mechanical/percussive nature of the instrument) points nonetheless to its uniqueness as compared to previous keyboard instruments: being able to produce different amplitudes by touch velocity, especially piano (a 'computed' piano here).  
Considering machineness, the situation of having a machine (a piano) controlled by another one (the great RHEA), suggested strongly the idea to control them by means of a program (a virtual-machine), one that randomly outputs durations and change-rate of events in realtime from previously defined thresholds. This three-level machinery made me think of the listener as a machine-like entity, capable of artificial emotion by these artificial means.

Computer p (random version 25/10/15, 20:08)

Video of the performance by Ensamble Vertixe Sonora:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P27bsJw824 
Diego Ventoso, Roberto Bao y Pablo Salgueiro – percusión
La Coruña, 23.10.18

Engraving on Bronze — Vertixe Sonora (La Coruña)

Two New Duo
Ellen Fallowfield, cello
Stephen Menotti, trombone
Huddersfield, 05.02.15

Once I was in a deserted valley where time seemed not to occur
Colored sand layers were separated by thin oscillating lines
Years later I tried to come back
I couldn’t find the place
I’ve had to live with its fading memory

Estuve una vez en un valle desértico donde el tiempo parecía no ocurrir 
Delgadas lineas oscilantes separaban la arena rojiza y amarilla
Años más tarde traté de volver 
No pude encontrar el lugar
He tenido que vivir con su recuerdo

d'uno

Video of the performance by Distractfold Ensemble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DkhZoDcS5w
Linda Jankowska, violin / Emma Richards, viola / Rodrigo Constanzo, percussion / Edward Caine, piano
More (a lot of) information about this piece in Chapter 5 (p.94) from http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34685/
(Huddersfield, 10.03.14)

Ohne

Video of the performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOJyynqolRQ
Linda Jankowska, violin
Recorded at St. Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield
14.09.17

Lines for Linda

Diego Castro, guitar
Recorded at St. Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield 
August, 2017
Video (different version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dJU4UyULis

Ludium et

Video of the performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkDHnYeDvdk
Ensamble Vertixe Sonora + Peyee Chen
Rubén Barros, electric guitar
Peyee Chen, amplified voice and delay-pedal knobbing
Pablo Coello, soprano saxophone
Diego Ventoso, percussion

La Coruña (Spain) 23.10.18

Into Open Noir

Zoé Cartier, cello / Isabelle Raphaelis, bass flute / Mireia Vendrell, piano / Johannes von Buttlar, percussion (Ensemble New Babylon)
"vaho" was born as a commission from Ensemble New Babylon to be part of the Project "Huellas" (2017) which took the ensemble on a tour to Argentina and Chile, starting and finishing in Germany, and involving several concerts in many different cities.  Here as performed in Leipzig, on 14.10.17.
As this project ("Huellas") emerged from the question about identities in music, "vaho" was composed in a context of introspection and retrospection. 
It is difficult to find precise points from which identity arises as we live thousands of experiences daily. The clue maybe lies in what remains, in what one compulsorily repeats without noticing it. I imagine that all of the sounds and temporalities from infancy somehow merge in the unconscious to form what we call identity, but that process never stops, we never stop changing, so what really remains is the question.
To me however the thing remains unspeakable: it escapes clear definitions or grand statements, revealing itself in very subtle and blurry ways.
For that reason, vaho deals with the volatile, tenuous,
it invokes the memory, of a memory,
it submerges into the image,
of something already forgotten.

Dado que el presente proyecto ("Huellas") nace de la reflexión en torno a la idea de identidad en música, "vaho" fue compuesta en un contexto de introspección y retrospección. 
Es difícil encontrar puntos precisos desde donde surge una identidad puesto que vivimos miles de experiencias a diario. Quizás eso que repetimos una y otra vez sin darnos cuenta sea un indicio. Imagino que sonidos y temporalidades acumulados desde infancia se funden de alguna manera en el inconsciente para formar aquello que llamamos identidad, pero ese proceso nunca termina, nunca dejamos de cambiar; solo persiste la pregunta. 
Para mi en todo caso la cuestión sigue siendo inefable, mostrándose solo ocasionalmente de forma sutil, difusa, escapando definiciones y grandilocuencias.
Por eso vaho lidia con lo volátil, lo tenue;
invoca el recuerdo de un recuerdo,
sumergiéndose en la imagen,
de algo ya olvidado.

vaho

Clara Saleiro, alto flute / Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass (rehearsal recording)
Based on Borges's haiku:
         La luna nueva
     Ella también la mira
      Desde otro puerto
Video of the premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0PIj94LcpA
(Premiere of the work: 12.11.19 in Padrón, Spain)(Vertixe Sonora)

desde otro puerto

(pandemic times music) "como reverso navegable" for e-guitar and ensemble (fl, sx, pno, perc, vln, vla, vlc, cb) as premiered by Vertixe Sonora Ensemble in Tui, Spain, on 18/10/20
Electric guitar: Rubén Barros
Conductor: Pedro Figueiredo
Programme notes:
"der Sturm, der mir aus meiner Vergangenheit nachblies, sänftigte sich; heute ist es nur ein Luftzug, der mir die Fersen kühlt; und das Loch in der Ferne, durch das er kommt und durch das ich einstmals kam, ist so klein geworden, daß ich, wenn überhaupt die Kräfte und der Wille hinreichen würden, um bis dorthin zurückzulaufen, das Fell vom Leib mir schinden müßte, um durchzukommen" (Kafka)
"la tempestad, que viniendo de mi pasado soplaba tras de mi, ha ido amainando: hoy es tan solo una corriente de aire que refrigera mis talones. Y el lejano orificio a través del cual ésta me llega, y por el cual llegué yo un día, se ha reducido tanto que –de tener fuerza y voluntad suficientes para volver corriendo hasta él– tendría que despellejarme vivo si quisiera atravesarlo" (Kafka)
"The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. Today it is only a gentle breeze which cools my heels. And the distant hole through which it comes and through which I once came has become so small that, even if I had sufficient power and will to run back there, I would have to scrape the fur off my body in order to get through"(Kafka)

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