NUNCA SE VOLÓ TAN BAJO
for 6 instruments & electronics
Year 2024 / Duration : 60′
Text : Carlos de Castellarnau / Beca Leonardo BBVA 2023
At the crossroads between a visit to a contemporary art exhibition, a concert, and a theatrical performance, we are confronted with the fragilities, fears, and lies of four distinct characters. In this way, everything we try to avoid is brought to light in an era where we have become especially prone to hearing only what we want to hear
Premiere by CrossingLines Ensemble/ Dir. Lorenzo Ferrándiz
Sala Beckett Barcelona
PETRÓLEO. UNA FICCIÓN DOCUMENTAL
for 5 instruments & electronics
Year 2025 / Duration : 100′
Text : Pier Paolo Pasolini
Design and text adaptation : Asier Puga
Commissioned by Grupo ENIGMA / Asier Puga conductor
Published posthumously in 1992, Petrolio is a massive fragment of what was meant to be a kind of text spanning more than 2,000 pages. An encyclopedia of the short story, “a modern Satyricon,” as Pasolini himself described it. The culmination of that “contamination of styles” with which the poet characterized his work; a work that was intended to overflow the boundaries of the novel and be completed with photographs, sounds, recordings, strange documentaries… all meant to help fill the deliberate gaps and narrative holes that the text was to contain
STRUWWELPETER. CUENTOS CRUELES AL OÍDO
for 8 instruments, actor, dancer & electronics
Year 2020 / Duration : 50′
Commissioned by the JORCAM / Jordi Francés conductor
Premiered in the Festival Ensems / Palau de la música València
Addressed to young people (+12) and based on the classical German children’s book by Heinrich Hoffman, this work explore the limits of the grotesque associated with childhood through music and theatre. It also reflects the extent to which our social and cultural values are based on mechanisms of censorship, discipline and punishment although these themes are often presented in lighter or more humorous ways.
Text by Lola Fernández de Sevilla y Cristina Cubells
PROJECTE GRIMM
for 6 instruments & electronics
Year 2022 / Duration 50′
Commissioned by OSIC Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural
Premiered in the Teatro de la Abadía and Sala Beckett
fl – sop sx – Bcl/cl – kbd – vln – vc
Text by Cristina Cubells. A piece for 12 children and 6 instruments for an adult audience exploring the agency of the children through the first versions of the Grimm’s tales. Over the years, these stories acquire new readings and interpretations of the hand of adults, who usually pass them on to children. But what would happen if, on this occasion, it is the children who are responsible for transferring them to the adults?
