(1996 French version, revised and translated into Spanish in 2000)
Opera-revue for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, percussion, synthesiser (piano), six actors-singers, and tape.
Commissioned by the French Government.
Duration: 1 hour
Continue reading Requiem pour un Bookmaker chinois (1995-96) (Urbana16)
For percussion and fixed sounds.
Commissioned by INA-G.R.M.
Premiered by Geoffroy at the Olivier Messiæn Hall on 19th May, 1997.
Duration: 18 minutes
Dedicated to my son Rodrigo and to Jean Geoffroy.
For a mezzo-soprano and piano.
Five songs based on texts by C.E.Feiling
For vibraphone
It is a complementary work of Claustrum, for percussion and fixed sounds.
Éditions Lemoine.
For accordion, percussion and live dispositive.
Commissioned by IRCAM and the Centre Georges Pompidou
Urbana. Adj. relating to the city. Plural noun
For octet: Flute, Clarinet, Bandoneon, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double bass.
Commissioned by the Orchestra of Paris.
In memory of my father.
Urbana cycle is, in its essence, related with the city, the polis.
For viola and fixed sounds
Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture and the l’INA-GRM.
Premiered on February the 6th 2001 in the Olivier Messiæn Concert Hall. Radio France.
Duration: 12′ 58″
This work is the 15th part of the Urbana* cycle, and the first of a smaller cycle for one instrument and electronics in multichannel (most of them in a 5.1 system).
For string quartet.
Editions Gérard Billaudot, for rent.
Commissioned by the Quatuor Liger.
Reading by the Quatuor Liger in the Robino-Naón Exposition – Nantes, May 2001.
Prize “Luis de Narváez” de la Caja de Granada. Premiered in Granada on 2nd April 2002. By Orpheus Quartet.
Circa 17 min.
By its extremely coded essence, the first and almost instantaneously visual image that appears when one sees a string quartet is four musicians playing chamber music. The weight this tradition carries is always heavy in the case of string instruments; in this traditional value scale, the quartet represents the highest and richest musical forms that have given place to outstanding pages in the occidental musical history.
Continue reading String Quartet No. 2 (Wheel – Star) (Urbana 4) (1999-2000)
For alto saxophone and vibraphone.
Commissioned by Société Selmer and the XIV International Music Course of Benidorm.
Editions Lemoine
The work is a series of free interludes. Composed for vibraphone and alto saxophone solos, “Alto Voltango” might be seen as a composition within other compositions. Its decontextualization is perfectly possible. Integrated by five movements, with evocative subtitles, the work is about the high-voltage current. This current, which goes through the instrumentalists (in a way an electro acoustic piece!) is revealed by an execution precision of great individual and vertical difficulty. It has a tango perfume, a tango that has been struck by strong voltages.
For double orchestra (with two directors).
Duration : 14 minutes.
The piece now has cruz y ficciones (cross and fictions) as the subtitle, in resonance with Abel Robino’s work; an extract from his installation Robbery was the original poster for the concert. Continue reading Double Urbana – Cruz y ficciones (1998/2001) (Urbana 17)
