The music on this album was written in collaboration with the performers who recorded it, reflecting a mutual trust between the composer and the Laboratorio de Música Nueva ensemble.
Compositional Technique
The album features 'Parametric Counterpoint,' a compositional approach where musical parameters have independent trajectories.
Recording & Production
This album is considered by the composer to be more mature than his previous one, Parametrical Counterpoint, showing the realization of concepts established earlier.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composer's music prioritizes space over time, with parts disassembled and reassembled to reveal their overall form, rather than developing or moving in a traditional sense.
Performer Biography
Laboratorio de Música Nueva (LaMN), based in Mexico City, is a daring contemporary music ensemble founded in 2021, dedicated to promoting new music through premieres, concerts, and recordings.
Composer's Artistic Vision
José Luis Hurtado, the composer, aims to create music where technique is not obvious and decisions are not evident, moving away from what he knows will work.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hurtado describes his music as resembling light, expanding, compacting, reflecting, and distorting, with many elements acting simultaneously in different layers.
