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Ehecamalacotl II (2024)
for string quartet
Ehecamalacotl II, for string quartet, takes its title from Nahuatl. The words ehecatl (wind) and malacatl (spindle) suggest a cyclical movement animated by the wind. The quartet extends its sonic lines like threads that tremble under tension in space, gathering and unfolding at their own pace. The music advances in spirals: its cycles come to an end and are continually revived, yet the extremes never meet, and the circle is never completed; nothing is the same when it returns, but nothing is entirely lost. Like a spindle spinning at the touch of the wind, the motion continues without apparent beginning or end, driven ever forward in its spiral, concentric logic.
Commissioned by: Mivos Quartet and Sounds of Now Vienna, with the support of the city of Vienna’s Department of Culture (MA7)
Performance History
August 2024:
World premiere, Sounds of Now Vienna. Mivos Quartet
January-April 2025:
Performing Arts Center, San Luis Obispo, California. Mivos Quartet
Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University, California. Mivos Quartet
May 2025:
Echoraum, Vienna. Mivos Quartet
Video score (performance with follow-along score)
Score preview
In his novel Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo describes the moment he saw his lover departing the earthly realm, a long time ago. On that day, he says, the light was the same as today, only "...not as crimson". He warns against sighing too much, because sighs are "sips of life that we throw away" and we might die of sadness. This is a piece about the moment when breathing becomes sighing.
for five instruments (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
La luz bermeja (2024)
Commissioned by: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble and Synesthesia Art Lab, with the support of the city of Vienna’s Department of Culture (MA7)
Performance History
October 2024:
World premiere, Synesthesia Art Lab, Kazan, Russia. Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
August 2026:
Konzertsaal FAL, Sounds of Now Vienna, Austria. Quasars Ensemble
November 2026:
Moyzes Hall, Melos-Ethos International Festival of Contemporary Music, Bratislava, Slovakia
Video score (performance with follow-along score)
Score preview
Coatlicue barría la escalera del templo (2020)
Aztec legend recounts the story of Coatlicue, the goddess of life and death and the mother of the Four Hundred Southerners, Centzon Huitznahuac, gods of the Southern Stars, and Coyolxauhqui, who ruled over her brothers. Coatlicue lived at the temple, where she did penance sweeping. One day, a feather fell from the sky; she picked it up and stored it on her breast. She then realized she was pregnant.
Enraged, Coyolxauhqui and her brothers decided their mother should die, and rushed to attack her. Coatlicue’s son spoke to her from the womb and asked her not to fear, for he would defend her.
Her son Huitzilopochtli, the Left-sided Hummingbird (a symbol of the heart), would be born a warrior and a poet, whose first feat would be to defend his mother, thus shaping the landscape of our modern night sky in the process…
for cello
Created as part of the Subharmonic Studies cycle, the composer’s doctoral graduation work featuring etude-style pieces for violin, viola, cello, and contrabass, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship and a study grant from the Mexican National Arts and Culture Fund
Winner of the 2021 Tesselat Call for Scores
A recording of the piece is planned for release in late 2026 through the Neos Musikstiftung label
Performance History
August 2021:
World premiere — 2021 Tesselat Call for Scores Winner’s Concert. Villa 88, Bordeaux, France. Aurélienne Brauner
September 2023:
PLATO Gallery, Ostrava Days for New Music, Czechia. Matthias Lorenz
August 2025:
Sounds of Now Vienna. Matthias Lorenz
November 2025:
NEOS Musikstiftung concert series AusSichten für neue Musik, Tolstefanz, Germany. Matthias Lorenz
June 2025:
22.06. NEOS Musikstiftung concert series NEOS live. Morgner Archiv, Chemnitz. Matthias Lorenz
26.06. NEOS Musikstiftung concert series NEOS live. Galerie ArToxin, Munich. Matthias Lorenz
Video score (performance with follow-along score)
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