music by Bari Yukaro
artwork by Mary Dusenbery

seas (demo)

On a small island surrounded by a huge sea. This is the calm before the storm.

Originally created as the pre-show soundscape for Barrowland Ballet's show "Too Close To The Sun".

Island Soundscape

An improvisation with Antoni Tashev @subconsciouslyswimming on bowed electric guitar, and Christina Nteventzi @christina_deva on vocals

Everything Is (improvisation)

A bowed guitar and modulated looped acoustic guitar sample ebb and flow with the (?_324)

~untitled~ Western Road (Ambient)

Francisco Alvarado • electric guitar
Cécile Le Talec • objects

Under the trees in the garden of the St Étienne Church in Beauvais, like the lines of a drawing in space, appears Flux, a sculpture imagined by the artist Cécile Le Talec for this site. Around and through it, the greenery, the columns of the building, the church enter into its composition.

The sculpture is made up of stainless steel threads which give the illusion of having been led like weft threads between warp threads, as they would be called for a loom. Together, they form an extraordinary mesh. The city's drapery and textile activity will undoubtedly have inspired the artist. Flush with the ground, without a base or foundation, the sculpture evokes the light form of an organdi canvas or a large drape, which would have come to rest in this green setting.

Or would it, on the contrary, be a lifting of the ground? Throughout his creative residency in Beauvais, the artist collects sounds of the city, draws and writes in a notebook about the history of the site. She records the flocks of bells, the song of blackbirds and starlings, and sees the material thus brought together as a whole, in an approach of synthesis of the arts.

Cécile Le Talec thus invites the composer Francisco Alvarado to imagine, in turn, a second work: an original composition, created according to his musical and personal interpretation of the spectrographic form of the sculpture. This sound creation, inseparable from the work, will be played during the inauguration as part of a performance.

For the two artists, an invisible link seems to connect the line of the first drawings, the stainless steel wire of the sculpture and the acoustic wave generated by the music. As if the whole thing was moving and vibrating in the air until it produced a visual and audible sensation in us.

FLUX [2023] • for electric guitar, objects & electronics

Nortwest Passage is a reflective sample library that invites composers to experience the ocean's vast beauty through the medium of electric guitars.

Wrongtools - Northwest Passage

Demo for the patch Calm Moment from the sound library Hacked Mythology for MYTH, available on patchpool.net - resynthesized bowed acoustic guitar layered with bowed waterphone - plenty of Macro/modwheel activity in the demo.

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Calm Moment

Dear mind
I wanted to be friends, yet we are right here back again
haunted by the past and the shadows of the

pain I caused, friends I've lost through time.
Sayonara for the days when we were kind.

You're the one who walks alone
shackled to a man who walks alone,
but what do we do
when our thoughts wanna dance on a different stage?
When we shout and scream and fight, can we turn the page
to free the beauty that we've caged?

Hey you, it's me again, I've come to offer peace,
there've been so many who have tried to tame this beast

spending days and nights and lifetimes playing games -
the quiet game, hide and seek - with pain.

The one who walks alone
shackled to a man who walks alone,
but what do we do
when our thoughts wanna dance on a different stage?
When we shout and scream and fight, can we turn the page?

When our thoughts wanna dance on a different stage?
When we shout and scream and fight, can we turn the page?

Here on this Isle of If, you are Faria, I'm Dantès,
from this game there's no escape, so we might as well shake hands
for trouble lied ahead and we're two halves...

Dear Mind

By the drunkensome poets, who worship the past
Unsuspecting what future will hold
We drink and dance and laugh as we sing lullabies
It's always raining in our song

Nymphal charm and broken minds
In this tavern with padded walls
Though we are the greats, the champions of times
It's always raining in our song 

White lights flicker 'round
Potions of strange names
We don't mind, we don't mind , we are
The stars

I see my friend smashed against the wall
Something feels so wrong
Tunic for a Goliath, blood on the floor
Reminds me of the flooding in the song.

White lights flicker 'round
Barkeep in a white coat
We don't mind, we don't mind, we are
The stars

I see the
Barmistress cleaning the blood on the floor
Exhausted and gloomy and sore
I suddenly notice a lock on the door
I ask to be let go!

And she said
There are no champions here, you're just patients my dear
This is where you belong
Drink this potion to wash off your shame, guilt and fear
So you don't drown in your own song.

Raining

Lately I've been made invisible
In the hall of faces
I have been borderline
Playing god
Today the punishment fits the crime
Watch me misunderstand it

I'm polarising
Terrorising
Always playing tricks with minds

Till night falls and we dine
And every talent shines
But mine

Maybe I have learned
To take victory for granted
All the friends I've got are made in China
Just a little joke, watch me misunderstand it
Night falls and we dine

This could have been
A beautiful moment
Without the torment
Hey
Night falls and we dine!

Mind is terrorising
Chastising
Pressure is building
Don't let it show

For night falls and we dine
And every trouble shines

Every Trouble Shines

www.franciscoalvarado.net

I work with sound. 

The desire to blur the boundaries between genres and find the delicate balance between familiarity and strangeness is at the heart of my recent works. In addition to orchestral and chamber music, I frequently integrate electronics into my compositions, often within music-theatre projects and films. 

I studied composition at the Universidad Católica de Chile, and later continue my studies with Stefano Gervasoni at the Paris Conservatory. Between 2013 and 2015, I participated in the Cursus 1 & 2 programs at IRCAM in Paris.

I address topics and questions of our time in collaborative projects with other contemporary artists. Notable collaborators include Maëlle Dequiedt, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Florentin Ginot, Alex W. Inker, and Rémy Reber, among many others.

I have received distinctions such as the Musica Festival Academy’s prize and the CDMC prize at the INJUVE academy in Madrid. My compositions have been commissioned by prominent institutions like the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the MUSICA festival, IRCAM, the Festival Messiaen, the Royaumont Foundation, Radio France, the CNSMDP, ensemble C Barré and United Instruments of Lucilin, among others. 

I held an artist-in-residence position at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis in 2017, at United Instruments of Lucilin, the ExperimentalStudio of the SWR, and the GMEM and between 2019 and 2021 and composer in residency at the Festival d'Autan 2025. Since 2024, I have been pursuing a PhD in stage composition within the SACRe program in Paris.

Composer, musician, producer, sounddesigner from Germany nowadays mainly working in the genres of orchestral and chamber music, film and theatre music, sound design, live-electronics and production music.

I'm using Soundcloud mainly as a backend for my websites patchpool.net and absynthsounds.com where I offer plenty of patches, samples and audio files for music and sound design production, so you will find thousands of demos here. To check out my music please visit my website and look for the MP3 link and/or have a listen to my production music on Audiosparx or take a sonic tour through my MP3 Store.

I guess you can call it post-folk with alt pop influences and a tad of distortion?

Unborn anew young and alive
Sheds skin as spirit though survives
The formless ether blooms in void

Hi, I'm Davey. I compose music for theatre and dance. Here's a few tracks.

https://youtube.com/channel/UC3Pes33FHQndiKISCyyvE0Q

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