Primera Manifestación, 2024
For septet (or sextet in a world without a theremin).
1(picc,fl,bfl).0.1(cl,bcl).0 - perc(1): glsp, 3wb, SD(sn off), BD, 3tom - theremin(1) [opt] - 1.0.1.1
Voices Below, 2025
For percussion, violin, oboe and fixed media with optional live electronics.
"Voices Below" is an electroacoustic work inspired by whale songs and their connection to the natural world. The work combines fixed media, acoustic performers, and optional live electronics.
Pixels, 2025
For quadraphonic fixed media,
Pixels transforms a single photograph of flutist Wilfrido Terrazas mid-performance into a sonic anatomy. Three channels directly process the image’s pixel data through audio software to generate. The fourth channel introduces a human heartbeat, creating a stark biological counterpoint to the digital abstraction. This core juxtaposition — raw physiology against fragmented visual data — explores the tension between embodied presence and mediated memory, deconstructing a captured moment into both glitch and pulse. Developed during doctoral research at UC San Diego, the work interrogates photography as unstable sonic code. (Acoustic version in development.)
Mundos auditivos, 2025
Live Spatialized Oboe Performance with 32-Channel Immersive Audio
An ongoing exploration of the oboe's sonic architecture through seven distinct auditory worlds, spatialized across thirty-two channels in UCSD's Experimental Theater. Using a custom Pure Data environment and Loupedeck controller, each breath transformed into swirling clouds of microtonal harmonies, metallic resonances, and spectral ghosts that moved through the architectural space.
The performance documented here represents the first iteration of an ongoing interdisciplinary project where long-exposure photography (1.5 to 2-minute exposures captured during the performance) will be processed to generate new music, translating light and shadow into sonic events.
1314 - 7.1, (loading)
"1314 - 7.1" for 2 voices and electronic media.
Is an audiovisual meditation on the 2017 Puebla earthquake that struck Mexico City at 13:14 with a magnitude of 7.1. It channels my raw experience of terror—trapped on a fifth floor as the world shook—and the haunting cries of mothers searching for their children at a kindergarten below. This piece honors the teachers who became human shields against panic, translating seismic violence into a journey through collective trauma. The work embodies how fear fractures reality, how love screams through chaos, and how courage resonates long after the ground stills—a memorial to the moment we learned the earth could betray us, but humanity would not.