Composition portfolio
Huancara (2022)
for solo percussion
Wankara—hispanicized as Huancara—is the Aymara word for “drum”, more specifically a type of large drum used extensively in traditional music from the Andes region in South America. Intended as a personal response to Iannis Xenakis’ percussion music, in writing this piece I also had in mind the sounds, the views and the nostalgic festiveness of parades and carnivals in Northwest Argentina.
Material (2024)
for three voices
Essentially a sort of gigantic round canon, Material was written as a companion to my previous piece The sea. These two works, while performable as standalone pieces, are meant to form a unit, each functioning as a refracted mirror for the other. The music of The sea, like its title, evokes fluidity and expansiveness and is fundamentally free-flowing; Material, on the other hand, is recursive, self-referential, and heavily process-based. In The sea, the drama is in the words; Material, contrarily, seeks expression through abstraction. My governing metaphor, however, is in both cases the same: the contemplation of a suspended present, a present that like liquid, seethes slowly until completely evaporating.
Note: if you are short on time, I would suggest listening to a few minutes of the beginning, then jump to 12:30 (rehearsal mark P, page 15 in the score) and listen from there to 14:15, then listen to the last two or three minutes of the piece.
Decir (2019)
for voice, e-guitar, viola, and percussion
Decir—“to say”—is a 50-minute theatrical concert of songs and poetry co-created with Argentine poet Victoria Cóccaro and augmented with visuals by Argentine artist Maximiliano Bellman. Conceived as the staging of a long poem, and written during a process of profound collaboration, Decir materializes into three layers—words, music, and visuals—each revolving around themes of suspension, repetition, fractality, and displacement. A topographic reflection on the materiality of writing, an exercise in transforming words into worlds (and vice versa), Decir explores the notion of territory in both a geographical and a sociocultural sense: how a body is present; how a voice becomes a place.
