This octophonic electroacoustic composition explores the possibilities to destroy the aesthetic, technical and conceptual referents that traditionally use to condition the perceptual experience of the world. The sound material invites to a personal interaction from the abolition of any qualifier systematically established. In this piece, something that could be understood as a failed attempt manifests…

This piece for soprano saxophone and viola is part of my research on luminance as one of the ‘semantic’ dimensions of timbre that accounts for the amount and intensity of light that is perceived in it. Spending hours working next to a window while it was raining, I recognised in it a kind of filter…

The clink of the spoon in your coffee is a line of a poem written by William Carlos Williams (“A Goodnight”). The piece is part of a period of exploration of the relationship between poetical images and sound. It is not a programmatic work, instead it is an attempt of timbral composition inspired in the…

My work ‘Infinitely ethereal’ for solo Bassoon (2018) will be premiered by the amazing bassoonist Rebekah Heller (International Contemporary Ensemble ICE) at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music next Friday, October 26th. This piece is inspired by a fragment of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: “and lit in him such a fire as burns only once…

With enormous satisfaction I share the publication of my article “El timbre: noción y experiencia creativa” [Timbre: Notion and Creative Experience] in the journal Ensayos: Historia y Teoría del Arte Vol. 21 N° 33. Institute of Aesthetics Research, Faculty of Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia [Article in Spanish]. This article corresponds to the first chapter of…

I have been awarded an AHC Doctoral Research Scholarship granted by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures of the University of Leeds (UK) to pursue a PhD in Composition with composers Martin Iddon and Scott Mc Laughlin as thesis supervisors. It will be my first experience of life outside Latin America. I am extremely…