SOME COMPOSITIONS

Score: http://bit.ly/1FyYDcS

Pedro Alvarez 
Two Surfaces (2013)
Ensemble Hand Werk:
--Daniel Agi, alto flute
--Heather Roche, clarinet
--Stefanie van Backlé, violin
--Niklas Seidl, cello
--Jens Ruland, percussion
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
www.pedroalvarez.info

'Two Surfaces', like many of my recent endeavours, attempts to present a static, 'objectified' aesthetic situation. It points at the utopian idea of time standing still, avoiding a 'processual' unfolding of music, and thus rebelling against inherited ideals of narrative fluency. Here we find two rich textural situations that do not evolve: a music of 'being' rather than 'becoming'.

Two Surfaces

SCHANDE was composed in response to events in Dresden on 9 November 2020, the 82nd anniversary of the infamous November Pogroms (also known as 'Kristallnacht') in Nazi Germany. A commemorative event had been cancelled by the authorities on account of the coronavirus pandemic. However, these same authorities allowed a demonstration by the far right group Pegida. The word 'Schande' means ‘shame’.

Nathan Watts, cello
Recorded by Will Overcash for Tempus Konnex

SCHANDE (solo cello, 2020)

Track realizada para vídeoperformance Sonho Vozes - Sueño Voces (disponível no meu canal do youtube) especialmente criada para a III edição do Festival Expresiones Contemporaneas, de México.

trata-se de uma impro-composição a partir de registros vocais de sonhos pandêmicos durante o ano de 2020 (minhas vozes gravadas ao celular, no despertar, trazendo a memória imediata do sonho), registros de paisagens sonoras diversas, coletados de derivas por cidades no México e no Brasil e imagens de derivas urbanas realizadas na CDMX e em Porto Alegre

toda a produção sonora é de caráter experimental, realizada de forma autônoma no garage band  - e a performance é um registro utilizando a ferramenta do zoom (sala de reuniões). explorando as possibilidades caseiras e de baixo custo, possíveis para mim no atual cenário,

Sonho Vozes - Sueño Voces

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/ver/1

Pedro Alvarez
Ver (2013)
Mark Knoop, piano
Premiere at St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK on 5th Dec 2013.
www.pedroalvarez.info

The various musical situations that constitute this work are pervaded by a sense of ephemeral plenitude. By simply 'being themselves' instead of representing functional stages in ongoing processes, these situations question the idea of 'organic development' as an aesthetic model. What remains is a kind of brutal formal construction; the abrupt juxtaposition of self-enclosed blocks of dissimilar proportions. 'Ver' was written in Vienna/London in the summer/autumn of 2013.

Francisco Martínez (bass guitar), Alfonso Vergara (bass clarinet), Raúl Díaz (cymbals), Carola Fredes (viola), Beatriz Lemus (cello), Nicolás Kliwadenko (electronics)

Pedro Álvarez – Intersperso-Ultradiano

Mauricio Galeano, 10-string guitar
Grow String Quartet:
William Overcash, violin
Mishi Stern, violin
Nefeli Galani, viola
Nathan Watts, cello

Recorded on 10 February 2023 at Alte Seilerei, Frankfurt

Twisted Arrows (10-string guitar & string quartet, 2022)

Score: http://bit.ly/1dQvc0n

Pedro Alvarez 
Plasmares (2014) 
commissioned by hcmf// 
Ensemble CrossingLines: 
--Laia Bobi, alto flute 
--Victor de la Rosa, clarinet 
--Tere Gómez, tenor saxophone 
--Cassiel Anton, alto trombone 
--Feliu Ribera, percussion 
--Mireia Vendrell, piano 
--Luis Codera Puzo, sine waves 
--Pedro Alvarez, e-guitar (guest) 
--Lorenzo Ferrándiz, conductor 
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014 
www.pedroalvarez.info

Plasmares

Score: bit.ly/1LlKKFB

Pedro Alvarez
Margin (2015)
-Heather Roche, bass clarinet
-Marco Fusi, viola d'amore
-Rafał Łuc, accordion
The Riot Ensemble's 'Portfolio' concert
London, 06 June 2015
www.pedroalvarez.info

Margin

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/alvarez_eo1_score/1

Pedro Alvarez 
Étude Oblique I (2006) for string quartet 
Arditti String Quartet
Institute of Music Research
London 2012
www.pedroalvarez.info

Étude Oblique I

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/fragments/1

Pedro Alvarez 
Fragments after Cioran (2011-2012)
Ensemble Interface:
--Bettina Berger, bass flute
--Andrea Nagy, clarinet
--Maiko Matsuoka, violin
--Christophe Mathias, cello
--Agnieszka Koprowska-Born, percussion
--Anna D'Errico, piano
--Scott Voules, conductor
Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland, March 2012
www.pedroalvarez.info

Fragments after Cioran

Ariana Cunha, Soprano Sax
Laia Barberà, Harp
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Live recording. April 2019, Sala 4 l'Auditori, Barcelona.
The premiere was in May 2019, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, Holland.
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www.itziarviloria.com

Akasha (2019) for Sopr Sax and Prepared Harp

alfar.designio.duelo (2020)
(fl. cl. hn. harp. perc. vl. vc. db.)
Ensemble Zahir
Festival Ensems
Palau de les Arts, Valencia

alfar.designio.duelo

si callalo pudié sentirsas (2020)
(fl. ob. cl. alt sax. synth, perc. vl. vla. vc.) 
sobre un texto de Ángela Segovia
Ensemble Mosaik
Bas Wiegers
Ultrashall Festival Berlin
(Foto: Gonzalo Borondo, "Merci")

si callalo pudié sentirsas

Performed at Ted Mann Concert Hall Minneapolis USA October 2010

Slainte by Pedro Alvarez Live at Ted Mann Concert Hall Minneapolis

スクリャービン:3つのソナタ

Sonata No. 5 Op. 53 by A. Scriabin

Binaural Version

Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be influential across many genres of popular music. He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix that later became ubiquitous in dance and electronic music production. Singer Mikey Dread stated, "King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense. He knew how the circuits worked and what the electrons did. That's why he could do what he did"

King Tubby was shot and killed on 6 February 1989, outside his home in Duhaney Park, Kingston, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio.

Hommage à King Tubby

Immigrant, nomad, traveller and sleepwalker. I make music too.

Étude Oblique I

Pedro Alvarez

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