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"Nubes y Nómadas"
Ca.
15:00", 2021, Ensemble and multichannel vídeo (Comission Ensemble
Vertixe Sonora). "Work for ensemble of soloists
(6 live, 6 on video). It is a composition with
audiovisual environments that proposes a reflection
on drifting, pilgrimage, migration, in which live
music is combined with videos of musicians wandering
the streets of Pontevedra in Galicia, in a poetics
that expands the perception of the physical and the
virtual as non-separate entities". Ramon Souto,
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"Hearing in Bed",
Ca.
19:00", 2020, Ensemble and video (Commission Ensemble Contrechamps
and LIMINAR). "In
the harrowing year of the pandemic, 'Hearing in Bed'
weaves a fine stitch between screen discipline and
rich, flashing sonic propulsion, shaping a necessary
'break ranks' and an indispensable ironic look at
the viral age." (Rubén López Cano, FIMNME, Online).
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"Fatalismo Mágico",
Ca 40:00", 2017, Performance
and 2
vinyl
discs.
(Commission Alumnos 47 Foundation).
"What
is interesting in projects like this is the shift in
artistic focus from a concern with objects and
installations to a concern with subjects and the
facilitation of their participation in artistic
activities, the processes that take place and the
effects of these on the artists and the participants
themselves" (Bettina Land, Volkskultur Steiermark,
Jahrbuch 2016).
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Mexican National Anthem as I Recall it From my
Childhood",
Ca. 18:00", 2016, Ensemble, multi-channel
video, solo voice and performance (Commission Festival CTM).
"The
text of our anthem, in its inherent beauty, violence
and frightening Greco-Latin roots, has been a
linguistic labyrinth for us Street-Mexicans . My
'play' (or my way of arranging a set of
circumstances for our anthem) is about an abstract
but quite clear collision between law and culture,
disgruntlement and interpretation, language and
meaning, 'reliable' identity and imposed military
patriotism." (CS)
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"Teleprompter",
Ca. 17:00", 2015, Ensemble und Video
(Commission Simmens Stiftung-Ensemble Mosaik). In
this piece Sandoval focuses on a teleprompter, a
"discrete machine", mainly used in television "as a
kind of magic mirror that allows the speaker to hide
the act of reading and seem 'spontaneous',
'well-articulated', 'intelligent' and 'confident' to
the audience" (Sandoval). According to the composer,
articulated spontaneity is equated with
intelligence, while reading signifies insecurity (a
dichotomy that Sandoval transfers to the Western
music tradition, in which concepts such as
"expression", and "passion" are perceived as the
antithesis of score reading) (Harald Hodeige,
programme booklet, Ensemble Mosaik).
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"Antilegos",
Ca. 14:00", 2015, Ensemble und video
(Commission Ensemble Mosaik). Each of the
musicians interacts not only with other musicians in
the forum, but with their own videotaped actions
(edited with a clear structural intention) in which
musical and non-musical activities are recorded. In
the perception of the audience, at least that is the
intention of the composer, the musicians collide
with themselves, as "contradictory clones". Hence
the title of this work. (Michael Zwenzner,
programme booklet Klangspuren Schwaz).
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"Maquina Latina",
Ca. 21:00", 2014, Piano and Video (Commission Ernst Surberg).
In Maquina
Latina [...] the live actions of the performers are
often combined with time-lapse video feeds, giving
the real-time of the live performance a special
accentuation. (Marion Saxer, Positionen 107).
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"Mextoys",
Ca. 98;00", 2003, Percussion, Dance, Video
and Elektronik. Commission by Festival Eigenarten).
Various
cognitive objects are arbitrarily extracted from
documentaries of daily life and used as the origin
of a linear narrative of complex systems and the
origins of creativity (CS, Online media). |
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"La Pasión Según la Gente",
Ca.
34:00", 1999, Traditionelle Mexikanische
Blaskappelle, Perkussion und Zuspiel. (With the
support of diverse cultural institutions in Mexico).
Orchestration of
multidimensional sound-documentations of the popular
representation of the Via Crucis in Mexico. La
Pasion segun la gente (The Passion according to the
people) is a testimony, a wonderful meeting of the
educated and the popular, music and noise, the
individual and the collective, tradition and
creation. It is a rare moment of graciousness.
(Conrado Tostado, CD Blooket, Quindecim).
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