Here you will find a selection of recent works. It is always hard to decide what to put up here, and mostly these are my own demos, meaning that if it is not a purely electronic piece, this is what I send the performer before they do the concert version… I find composer’s demos interesting as they tell you a lot about what we would ideally want from the players. They are in a way like sketchbooks… do contact me if you are  further interested.

Casi Orfeo

2008

These are some of the fixed elements from our electronic music theatre Casi Orfeo, written for Iñigo Ibaibarriaga and members of Klem. The performance piece included two contributions by María Eugenia Luc and Rodrigi Sigal.

Las Furias

Voces Pulsadas

Base para el canto de Ainhoa

Lamento y tránsito de Euridice

Los códigos de sara

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Ensayo sobre la Bicicleta

January 2008

(For sounds recorded of my Cannondale Terra with a handheld hard disk recorder. This is part of a series of abstract audio essays in the style of Michel de Montaigne) The piece is made from the sound of preparing my pannier bags before leaving my house, fumbling with my keys and testing to see if the pitch of my bike wheels’ spokes is true before riding (not that I would really know).

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re-Goldberg!

2007

For harpsichord and electroacoustic sounds triggered with SuperCollider, written for Dan Tidhar after variation 14. This is my demo version.

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Ensayo Sobre La Torpeza

2007

(for sounds of accidents, a commission by the Centro Mexicano para La Música y las Artes Sonoras written for the Festival Visiones Sonoras 2007. The original is performed live using SuperCollider, this is a stereo mix)

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Carrizos de Porra

2007

For sounds of native Venezuelan pan pipes or Carrizos.  Using recordings of Venezuelan indigenous pan flutes, carrizos de Guaribe, I have traced a musical journey from my birth town of Caripito (Venezuela), near the Orinoco Delta to the central region of Barlovento via the island of Margarita on the Caribbean sea. Along the way I have recorded folk instruments mixing the native South American carrizos with the ‘polo’  a 16th century Venezuelan transformation of the Spanish ‘folía’  and with the Afro-Venezuelan ‘fulía’ of the central coastal region. My journey begins with an evocation of the singing of frogs; one of the earliest sounds I heard in my life. With ‘carrizo’ performances I have created rhythmic templates which process through the music as religious events from dusty provincial towns, eventually to converge on the Afro-Venezuelan drumming of ‘tambores de fulía’, always punctuated by frog-song and woodwind transformations. All the recordings are my own compilations of Venezuelan folklore, made during various projects between 1992 and 2003. All flutes were originally performed by Luis Julio Toro, percussion instruments were performed by Alejandro Livinalli, Caracas.

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El juguete de Daniella

2006

For marimba solo, written for Daniella Ganeva, this is my demo version.

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Sueño Con Ranitas

2006

For marimba, electroacoustic sounds and live triggered video, this is my demo version.

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Recuerdos del Alambre

2005

For Theorbo and elecroacoustic sounds, written for Ruben Riera, this is my demo version.

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Concerto Demente

2005

For Orchestra and usb video-game controller triggering electroacoustic sounds and algorithmic processes, this was recorded in rehearsal.

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Noronqui

2003/04

For Piano, Soprano Sax and Electroacoustic sound. Written for Paul Jackson and Damian Royannais. This is published by amp.org

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Four Short Grain Pieces

2002 (or drones made from my own choice recycled advertising work!)

bebe

deb

bala

gar

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Hoketus Creole

2001

For Camerata Criolla de Caracas with members of Gurrufío, chamber ensemble and electroacoustic sounds.

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Salto Mortal

1989

(for 2mb of metalic spool sounds plus a conga roll and a TX802)

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Sin Ti Por El Alma Adentro

1987

For flute and tape, written for Nancy Ruffer.

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