TABÚ was premiered in Mexico on the 6th of October 2018 at the Teatro Juárez, in El Oro, state of Mexico.
This piece addresses the topic of racism in Mexico and presented fragments of interviews with Mexicans who share some experiences, opinions and advice on how to eradicate this problem.
From the 8th to the 10th of October 2018.
During my visit to the CaSA, the biggest arts centre in Oaxaca, México, I gave a three-day workshop about Electroacoustic Music, focusing on tape music, recording techniques, and composition strategies for beginners.
I presented the paper: Insights on the compositional and aesthetical implications of the use of state-space models in electroacoustic composition.
At the MuSA 2018 Conference in Karlsruhe, where I had the chance to share compositional practices with composer colleagues and researchers.
TABÚ, the tape piece for 8 channels was premiered last week at the University of Manchester, as part of the activities of the EASTN UK, the European Art Science Technology Network for Digital Creativity.
The premiere was proceeded by a presentation where I talked about Mexico’s History, culture and the topic of racism.
The piece, that contains fragments of interviews with Mexicans of different states, had a great impact on the international, Mexican and Latinamerican audience that attended the event.
Tabú, will be premiered on the 27 of June at the University of Manchester. The concert is part of the activities of the EASTN Manchester, which also includes research presentations, demos and panels.
Tabú is an 8-channel fixed media piece, and is part of the project “Contra el racismo en México”.
Next 9th of June Sabine Bürger and me will be presenting Synthetic Springs, our most recent collaborative work at the Kling Gut 2018 Symposium on Sound in Hamburg.
Premiered at the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association Conference ISSTA 2017.
Sept 7-8 2017, at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
AV Installation (video, audio)
This audio-visual collaboration between Mexican composer Rosalía Soria Luz and German video artist Sabine Bürger literally originated from within ISSTA 2015 when the two authors first had the opportunity to immerse themselves in each other’s work. The music is a 16-channel audio composition inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s 1926 short story “The Silver Key”, part of his “Dreamlands” series. In the story a silver key unlocks gates of space and time, offering access to an alternative dimension of vast cities and lands. The music consists of five sections as a metaphorical allusion to these dreamlands, conceived as synthetic sound spaces. The source materials include recordings of a koto and synthetic sounds created using mathematical models. Sound transformations, timbres, behaviours and trajectories are largely based on this model’s behaviours. A stereo version of the piece provided the basis for the visuals.
The visuals were created in response to the music, generating an intuitive visual equivalent to its expressive qualities and its movement from a mathematical origin towards the emotive. The audio piece, rather than relying on an overall theme repeated throughout, offers instead a sequence of differing autonomous elements strung together, which could be best mirrored by continually introducing new visual components throughout the piece. In that respect the visuals evolved in a linear process, as fragments were created in chronological order, reacting to the piece as it progressed.
My piece KRONOS: for Clarinet and Live Electronics was
Premiered in Mantis Spring Festival 2017, and
performed at De Montfort University Music, Technology & Innovation 2016-17.
Performer: Marij Van Gorkom.
My piece Time Paradox was selected to be part of the
Ars Electronica 2016 Festival in Linz, Austria.
I performed my 16-channel piece The Silver Key at the SONORITIES 2016 festival at SARC, Queen’s University in Belfast.
