Beautiful piece, Luis! Full of delicate sounds. Surely deserves the prize it won!

***Please use your fanciest audio equipment*** 

• 1st Prize at the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition (2021) form the Contemporary Music Lab 
• 2024 PRISMS Contemporary Music Festival call for scores, Honorable Mention

The intention behind this piece is mainly to construct a discourse distanced from the elements that are traditionally explored in electroacoustic music, eg. texture and timbre. While these elements are undoubtedly present in the piece, it is first and foremost the rhythmic impetus — working around an unstable pulsation — its energy, as well as the imagery and the dramaturgy of the work that is highlighted. 

I have worked exclusively with a collection of sounds from my personal library as well as sounds that have been recuperated online (sort of objets trouvés), like a depository where I drew the parts that were best suited; hence the title “Junkyard Construction”. 
This comes from an interest to work with fairly limited resources (concerning equipment), which is also why it’s a stereophonic piece.
   
“Why stop the swing?” refers not only to the rhythmic content, but also to the swaying of unstable images that are being constantly re-contextualised, progressively detaching and revealing themselves as the inner drama unfolds.

To learn more: https://www.luis-quintana.com/music-catalogue/junkyardconstruction

Junkyard Construction: Why stop the swing?

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● [ALPARR]：
✧ @alparrmusic
✧ https://twitter.com/AlparrMusic
✧ https://alparr.bandcamp.com/releases
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● [HEAVENSIGHT]：
✧ @heavensight
✧ https://twitter.com/heavensight
✧ https://heavensightbass.bandcamp.com/releases

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Luis Quintana’s music explores liminal spaces where tradition, memory, and nature dissolve into sound.

At the edge of cultures, where pulse blends with texture, his work is rooted in movement and reimagined heritage, inhabiting the porous boundary between popular and savant, ritual and abstraction. 

	He's an award-winning, Puerto Rican composer based in Paris. Equally at home with a wide range of media —acoustic, electronic, interdisciplinary—he has achieved international recognition by institutions such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France, and the Contemporary Music Lab in Greece. His work engages with both, multiculturality as an aesthetic principle and ecology as a vehicle for expressions of identity. In this sense, he draws from a diverse array of musical traditions, techniques, landscapes, and art to create soundscapes that can serve as starting points for personal and emotional storytelling.

Junkyard Construction: Why stop the swing?

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