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TOSCA -REMIX- (2013)

for Solo Violin/Electric Violin, Orchestral Ensemble, DJ & Wind Symphony

Tosca -Remix- (2013)

para violín/violín eléctrico solo, ensemble, DJ y banda sinfónica

Instrumentation: Solo Violin/Electric Violin (amp)

Ensemble 1. 1. 1. 1 - 1. 1. 1. 0 - 1. 1. 0 - 1. 1. 1. 1. 1

Duration c. 20’

Tosca-Remix propose an interaction between a soloist (Electric Violin and Classic Violin, both amplified), an orchestral ensemble, a DJ and a Wind Symphony. The score is concretized through the final mix of all the performers whose interventions, spatialized at the concert venue and recorded live, are transformed and mixed in situ, producing a unique sound material in each performance. The various sound sources are overlays and mixes -Remix- on themes from the opera Tosca by G. Puccini, from fragments of violin, with sonorities closer to Jimmy Hendrix's guitar than to classical violin and various melodies that affect the fragmentation of memory as the representation of reality, always a personal and unique mix in time.

Premiere on July 3, 2013 in Valencia, Cultural Center La Nau, concert belonging to the programming of the ‘Serenades at the Cloister of the University of Valencia’. Mª Carmen Antequera, solo violin, DJ Soak, Wind Symphony L’Artesana of Catarroja, Beatriz Fernández-Aucejo, conductor, and the Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Joan Cerveró, conductor.

PARAPHRASE ABOUT ROTHKO CHAPEL (2009)

for Chamber Orchestra & Live-Electronics

Paráfrasis sobre Rothko Chapel (2009)

para orquesta de cámara y electrónica en vivo

Instrumentation: fl (+picc, afl), ob (+corA), cl (+ bcl), vib, pno, vln and vlc

Duration 10’

Commissioned by the Second Biennial of Architecture, Art And Landscape of The Canary Islands in 2008.

Premiere on March 5 and 6, 2009 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Gabinete Literario de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Joan Cerveró, conductor

THE PASSION ACCORDING TO OBLIVION (2000)

for Percussion Ensemble & Electronics

La passió segons l’oblit (2000)

para grupo de percusión y electrónica

Instrumentation: 4 percussionists

Duration 12’

Premiere in May, 2000, in Valencia, Centre del Carme, International Festival of Contemporary Music/Ensems, Amores Percussion Grup.

This work is inspired on a deconstruction of the St John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, creating a new sound image of the other passions, the forgotten, the never found or the lost. A metaphor for what remains of oblivion in our memory.

ARIADNA SOLITUDE (1998)

for Soprano, Trumpet, String Quartet, Pre-recorded Tape and Live Electronics

Ariadna Solitud (1998)

para soprano, cuarteto de cuerda, cinta pregrabada y electrónica en vivo

Text by Jaime Siles

Instrumentation: s/amp, trp (+flgn/pic. tpt), vln(2), vla, vlc, prerecorded tape and live electronics

Duration 15’

Commissioned by the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana in 1998 for the opening of the exhibition of the artist Anzo: Isolations 2000, held in the Sala Almudín in Valencia Valencia.

Premiere in October 29, 1998, in Valencia, Sala Almudín

VIRIDIS (1989)

for Solo Oboe and Ensemble

Viridis (1989)

para oboe y ensemble

Instrumentation: Solo ob, fl (+afl), cl(+bcl), perc(2), pno (+cel), vln, vla and vlc

Duration 10’

Premiere in Alicante, September 22, 1989, Auditorio de la CAM, International Festival of Contemporary Music of Alicante, Grup Contemporàni de Valencia, Manuel Galduf, conductor.

QUIET AFTER THE RAIN (1987)

for Ensemble

Quiet after the Rain (1987)

para ensemble

Instrumentation: fl (+picc, afl), ob (+corA), cl (+ bcl), perc (3), pno (+cel), vln (2), vla, vlc, bguit, ssax, tsax and barsax

Duration 10’

Premiere on October 10, 1987 in Barcelona, Sala KGB, as part of the programming of the III Biennial of Youth Cultural Productions from Mediterranean Europe, Barcelona. Antiphon Ensemble, Joan Cerveró, conductor

PARIS (1987)

for Ensemble

París (1987)

para ensemble

Instrumentation: fl (+picc, afl), ob (+corA), cl (+ bcl), perc (3), pno (+cel), vln (2), vla, vlc, bguit, ssax, tsax and barsax

Duration 10’

FUNERAL MARCH (1987)

for Ensemble

Funeral March (1987)

para ensemble

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl (+ bcl), bsn, hn, perc, pno, vln (2), vla, vlc and dbs

Duration c. 8’

Premiere on May 20, 1987 in Valencia, International Festival of Contemporary Music/Ensems, Auditorium of the Caja de Ahorros de Valencia, Grupo Círculo, José Luis Temes, conductor

water Music (1984 | 2018)

for Ensemble and Pre-recorded Tape

Música de Agua (1984 | 2018)

para ensemble y cinta pregrabada

Instrumentation (First version 1984): fl, cl (+ bcl), hn, perc (2), pno, vln (2), vla, vlc and dbs. [Several options for performance/Open instrumentation]

Duration 8’ - 20’

Premiere on 1984 in Valencia, International Festival of Contemporary Music/Ensems. Sala Escalante, Valencia, Ensems de Cambra, Rafael Mira, Conductor.

Last version scored for Finnmark Project in 2018 and commissioned by Bombas Gens Centre d’Art for the exhibition ‘Anna-Eva Bergman. From North to South, Rhythms’ [14.11.2018 | 05.05.2019]

Premiere on December 7, 2018 in Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia. Finnmark Project, Joan Cerveró, Conductor.

Water Music starts from the aesthetic proposal of modular music, minimal & repetitive structures, from which a continuous counterpoint is made, which gives rise to a unique, a singular work, in each interpretation that is made of this work. The same is never the same. Accompanied by the pre-recorded calm sound of the sea which maintains a constant support and a cyclical rhythm, a repetitive sound movement. On this support, the interpreters play their modules with a random frequency and a slow, melodic and repetitive rhythm and in turn communicative that introduces the listener to a mental space associated with memory and introspection. A thoughtful statism in motion. In its seminal version Música de agua was inspired by a poem of the same name by the spanish poet Jaime Siles:

WATER MUSIC
Space
-under space-
is the shape of the water
in Chantilly.
Not you, not your memory.
Just the name
that your language writes
in your silence:
a language of water
beyond the signs.

From Música de agua, Jaime Siles, 1983