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Music and literature

Music

ORCHESTRA

Planeaciones Ancestrales for symphony  orchestra (with a percussion battery of 50 instruments) (20’). Commissioned by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1990.

Concierto tropical para bajo eléctrico y orquesta, for electric bass and orchestra in three movements (20’)  Commissioned by
Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico , 2006, Reviewed in 2015.

Clarinet Concerto No.1, for clarinet and symphony orchestra in two movements (Ca. 22’). Dedicated to Oskar Espina-Ruiz, 2018

Ssoon Raeguetón, for bassoon and chamber orchestra (Ca. 12’). Work in progress (2018).  Coming soon.

 


CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

Toing, for güicharo and timpani (Ca. 5’) 2010. Now in revision.

Water world (for percussion ensemble utilizing water and paper based instruments (Ca. 13’). Amplification is required. Work in progress.

Claribongo for clarinet, bongos and string quartet in two movements (25’). Commissioned by Treetops Chamber Music Society , 2012

Cuarteto para la Coexistencia for flute, clarinet, violin and cello (13’). Commissioned by the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico for its 50th Anniversary Commemoration, 2010

Klarinet 3.2  for clarinet duo in three movements (9’).  Commissioned by Kathleen Jones, 2007

Mejunje del fagobongo for bassoon and bongos (Ca.11’). Commissioned by Saxton Rose, 2006

Micrólogus a neo-medieval free jazz composition for soprano voice, alto sax, piano and stage band (Ca. 12’). Commission of Festival de Jazz Borikén (2001).

Tres Piezas para quinteto de Vientos for wind quintet in three movements (13’). Commissioned by Asociación Nacional de Compositores Puertorriqueños (ANCO), 1988

Cuarteto de Cuerdas No. 1. Two movements string quartet (13’), 1986

Aulux  An ‘Avant garde’ score for voices, brass quintet, percussion, and founded objects (Ca. 10’), 1981


 
SOLO INSTRUMENTS

Lloro (Por los árboles caídos) for cello solo, ca. 5’. 2018

Coral,  (Chorale) for amplified bongos (7’), 2017

Mapeyé dulzura for piano (6’) 2017, (A transcription from an improvisation)

Audabe, for piano (5’), 2017 (A transcription from an improvisation)

Estudio Rítmico No. 1, for piano (Ca. 7’) Commissioned by APAOSS, 2012

Bongo passion, for bongo solo (Ca. 10’) 2010

7 Mantras para clarinete (Ca.7’) 2009

Voces del barrio (Voices form the Latin Ghetto) for clarinet solo in three movements (Ca. 10’) 2006'

Balada, a ballade for 6 strings electric bass, (Ca. 4’) 2006

Jangueos, three pieces for marimba (Ca. 10’) 2005

Kumba Kim, for trombonist (Ca. 8’). Written thanks to a support from the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, 2003

Canciones para piano, 6 piano pieces for the young and childrens (Ca. 8’) Since 2000. In progress.

Piezas al pasillo para chelo. (Pieces on the hall, for cello) To be please performed only in a hall: no room, no stage or outdoors. (Ca. 7’) 1994

Realidades, for flute  (Ca. 4’) 1978. Reviewed in 1998

Improvisación for piano (Ca. 7’) 1977 (Will be reviewed)

Several lead sheets in latin and new age genders (various dates)



 
LITERATURE
Unpublished books of Poetry, Stories and Aesthetic. All written in Spanish:
 
 
Blubs (shorts stories, in progress) Since 2017

Poemas de Música. Donde se abordan temas espirituales, estéticos, técnicos, teóricos y comerciales de la música, 1998-2017 / Poetry

Subwoofer: Tiempos de Sandunga, Güasa y Destotéo. Sobre la cultura hip-hop, y el Infra mundo, marginado e invisible. En esta obra se utiliza el lenguaje caracteristico. Nota: puede ser ofensivo. 2004- 2017 / Poetry

Poemas del Colonizado. Inspirado en la ambivalencia psicosocial producto de la subordinación política que experimenta el colonizado, 2005-2007 / Poetry

Testigo Civil de la Impotencia. Escritos inspirados en el conflicto bélico Irak-USA. 2003-2006 / Short stories and poetry

Meditaciones Sobre la Basura. Sobre la belleza de la basura, 2002-2006/ Writings on aesthetic

Pulpa Fosforescente. Poesía erótica, blasfema y maldita. Solo para adultos. 2001-2003 / Poetry

Trazos de Invisibilidad (título provisional). Surrealismo mágico y fantasia, 2000-2004 / Poetry



 
OTHER WRITINGS

La Improvisación (an article commissioned in 2016 by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College-CUNNY).

Three articules about socio-political aspect of the music in Puerto Rico, published in El Nuevo Dia and Claridad newspapers. 2006-2008

Author and co autor of two Laws project proposal for the Chamber of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico:  P. de la C. No. 4135 and No. 4136 (In favor of the music creation and musical employment development ) 2007

Tiempos de Abandono (Times of abandonments) a two pages article published in  Revista Domingo of El Nuevo Día. July 2005.

Comentarios al proyecto de la Cámara 1681
Presentado a Comisión de Educación y Cultura
Cámara de Representantes
2 de septiembre de 2005
http://www.oslpr.org/2005-2008/ponencias/B2FOKU7Y.pdf

Sobre la Importancia de la Música en los Niños (About the importance of the music in childhood)  published in the Nydia Caro’s Bienvenidos CD album booklet. Caguas, Puerto Rico, HIMA 2003
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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