Music by Felipe Otondo

Valdivian Coast Field Recording

On Friday, 19 June, soundscape recordings were carried out at the Punta Curiñanco Coastal Protected Area in collaboration with students Nicolás Montes and Gera Leal. Located on the coast of…


Makuta at UC Electroacoustic Music Festival

Makuta, a work by Chilean composer and sound artist Felipe Otondo, was presented at the 11th UC Electroacoustic Music Festival, organised by the Institute of Music of the Pontificia Universidad…


New CD Released on Gruenrekorder

A new CD has been released on the Gruenrekorder label, featuring compositions by students and staff from the University of the Arts London and Universidad Austral de Chile. The works…


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…


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…