Sauti (2022)
Sauti, meaning both “sound” and “voice” in Swahili, somehow encapsulates the essence of this piece inspired by field recordings carried out in Kenya in 2012. The work combines community radio recordings…
Music by Felipe Otondo
Mombasa mix (2020)
This piece was conceived taking as a starting point field recordings carried out in 2012 during the month of Ramadan in the city of Mombasa on the East coast of…
Night Study 3 (2018)
‘Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night…‘ (Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room) This piece is the last of three works exploring real and imaginary nocturnal soundscapes. It is inspired by subtle…
Night Study 2 (2016)
‘Oh, night more lovely than the dawn…’ (John of the Cross) This piece is a musical exploration of real and imaginary nocturnal landscapes using as a timbral framework…
Night Study 1 (2013)
Our bike is the colour of the night. Our bike is a black donkey dawning Through lands of Curiosity.’ (Roberto Bolaño) The idea behind this work stems from a…
Irama (2012)
In Javanese gamelan music ‘irama’ has the general meaning of time interval between two successive sounds or actions. The term can also be used to refer to temporal relationships between…
Teocalli (2011)
This piece is roughly inspired by the short story The night face up by Julio Cortázar in which a man driving a motorbike is involved in an accident and ends up in…
Sarnath (2010)
This piece was created as part of the project The Buddha’s Footprint using field recordings from Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India. The field recordings, made by Francis Booth, include bells, drums and…
Pacífico (2009-10)
This piece was developed as a collaboration with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita who provided me with a poem that he regularly reads in poetry recitals. I then re-arranged parts of the…
Ciguri (2008)
This composition was developed from part of the music of the dance theatre piece To have done with the judgment of Artaud by Base Theatre for the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe…
Showtime! (2007)
This piece, inspired in and composed using excerpts from the book Three trapped tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante , is an attempt to develop the idea of an imaginary show…
Clangor (2006)
This piece, made entirely with sounds originated from recordings of the gamelan, has been an attempt to capture some of the body and clarity of the sound of the gamelan…
Plastiches (2005) 5.1 surround
This piece started as a study of different strategies for approaching space. The piece is inspired in a comical evolution of some spatial pastiches with a point of departure in…
Zapping Zappa (2004)
This piece was conceived as humoristic tribute to the composer and musician Frank Zappa. Using different types of samples from the music of Frank Zappa I built an imaginary zapping…
Found objects (2003)
This piece has been a first attempt to explore the possibilities of sounds produced by metal objects. By using electronic transformations of different continuous and impulsive sounds recorded anechoically the…