The Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, featured on this album, is a flexible collective of European soloists specializing in challenging and virtuosic contemporary experimental music.
Composer Biography
Camilo Méndez, the composer, holds a Doctorate and Master's Degree in advanced Composition from the Royal College of Music in London and is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Méndez's music draws inspiration from diverse sources including literature, visual arts, geography, philosophy, and experiences across multiple continents, with allusions to Latin American and European composers, writers, and artists.
Compositional Technique
The Spatio-Temporal Cartographies cycle, inspired by Alfred Korzybski's dictum 'the map is not the territory,' explores non-linear form where sections can be performed in any order, allowing performers to create varied trajectories.
Compositional Technique
The composer conceives his works as large cycles, which are series of pieces exploring a compositional idea through different instrumental combinations, often with intricate and symmetrical macrostructures.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The BURSZTYN cycle is a tribute to Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn (1933-1982), whose 'impossible objects' made from scrap metal inspired Méndez to radically transform traditional instruments.
Compositional Technique
Méndez's works use 'preparations' and unconventional playing techniques to defamiliarize instruments, blurring their boundaries and combining their sounds in surprising ways.
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