This work is a version of a project entitled Botasoneiro, undertaken in 2005 with saxophonist Iñigo Ibaibarriaga and sound artist Mikel Arce. The original work was based on the combination of baritone saxophone and electronic sounds in constant motion, both virtually and physically, due to the incorporation of rocking speakers.
"One day, the men find an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedony, the brown velvet of the moth, and then astonished to know each snail was spotted, always, a poem.”
(Alejo Carpentier, “Los pasos perdidos”, ("The Lost Steps")).
After this break, I am really enjoying playing the piano, listening, writing... but in a different way.
A new different stage, more aware and attend... to senses...
“Acuarela” emerged from the work of flautist Roberto Casado and choreographer and dancer Michelle Man. Both were actively involved in a pre-eminently multidisciplinary project.
This is a tribute to the work of Mikel Laboa seen from a different perspective – an approach to that wandering feeling, which is difficult to capture in terms of sound and recognisable rhythm, and which is deformed on its return.
Based on the idea of a double, a duo, as a mirror between the instruments and their reflection in the electronics.
- Why is everything linked by an invisible thread that wraps us and traps us and prevents us from being free in the full vacuum of light?
- Because I only dream the memory of the time when everything was loneliness.
Nono
belongs to a group of constructivist style works in which the material used (in this case nine notes for nine instruments) determines the pitches and rhythms and conditions the development and duration of the sections.
The piece is structured in such a way as to juxtapose different well-differentiated parts that form the discourse. The treatment of the instruments, the lines in which pitches and intensities are displayed, define very characteristic fragments.
The title refers to the fascination that in many ways I have always had with the desert. Environments in which the absence of visual and acoustic references, to which we are accustomed, spark our imagination. It is an apparent state of instability that changes our perspective and causes all our senses to be stimulated.
Igarkizuna
is a Basque word that best approximates in meaning to ‘enigma’, ‘puzzle’, ‘riddle’, although it is also commonly employed in another sense as ‘prediction’, ‘guess’, ‘premonition’.
Deep Blue
. This work is intended as a competition between musician and machine, although in reality, the musician is enhanced when merged with technology.
A song may be too short to be able to describe the feelings that you have for a person.
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In a working session in Gênes (Belgium) with the ensemble eWave, we recorded several effects with the flute: whistle-tones, key noises, wind sounds imitating breathing, animal imitations, etc. It was very suggestive timbre material, but it also contained extremely distinct differences.
It was my interest in the therapeutic power of music and the relationship between high and low frequencies, between colours and sounds, that inspired the title.
Sound fluid that advances, empowering itselve, getting timbral registers and propousing transformations until it achieves its sound fullness.
In this work, I set out to fragment the entire maximum scope of piano. An enormous scope is offered by the piano, which I use as a starting point as the entirety of the mosaic that represents its fragmentation.
Urbia represents the idealized place, where one feels especially connected to one´s natural environment, without ceasing to be oneself.
Danba II offers an auditory path through the acoustic characteristics of various instruments. It sets out a commitment to each instrument, exploring its timbral characteristics and attempting to dispense with traditional hierarchies.
The work sets up a dialogue between the many sonorities of the cello and of electronics, a fundamental aim being to explore the articulation options of both elements. The work's musical discourse is structured by the varying lengths of a network of heights and intervallic series.