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Julio Torres & Susan Campos. Fonseca - Kaleidoscopio No​.​4

from Electroacoustic Music in Latin America by Various Artists

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Composer: Julio Torres
Performers: Susan Campos-Fonseca, Piano; Pablo Chavarria, Drums; Julio Torres, Electric Guitar.

"Zona de Silencio", Live recording at Museo Na Bolom. 9 July 2016. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas; Mexico.

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from Electroacoustic Music in Latin America, released April 7, 2017
Julio Torres - Composer

Mr. Torres was born in Morelia (Mexico). He started his musical studies at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in his hometown. After completing his basic training he moves to Victoria, BC for a couple of years. But it’s in Vancouver where he would finally find fertile soil for his musical ideas, earning a BFA in Music Composition at Simon Fraser University. It is here where he began to develop an “ear” for music, expanding his sonic ideas into the realms of cinema, dance, theatre, and experimenting with live electroacoustic processes and extended technics on different instruments.

His works have been performed in Canada by the likes of Peggy Lee, Mark McGregor, Gordon Grdina, Daniel Tones, The Phoenix Chamber Choir, and the Hermes String Quartet in Victoria/Vancouver BC. In 2008, his piece “Oneiric Luminescence” for full orchestra was included in the Jean Cloulthard Readings of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
After finishing school, he became more interested on improvisation and improvised music and started to developed the “Kaleidoscopic” pieces, a series of freely written pieces of music that encapsulate relatively short musical motifs in an open form… Thus, leaving many of the final decisions to the performers. In these pieces, the concept of time and pulse is relative and ever changing… The performer could speed up or down, as well as change the duration of every single note. In addition, the performer is free to choose not only the order of the motifs but also articulation, dynamics, and other elements that are left to chance. The first “Kaleidoscope” was premiered in 2010 at the Sonic Boom Music Festival in Vancouver. Later on in Mexico, Julian Martinez premiered his “Kaleidoscope No. 2” for solo violin, while the third Kaleidoscope was recorded by cellist Maria Lipkau as music score for the film “Las Letras” by Pablo Chavarria.

All of these elements -improvisation, free form/free tempo-pulse, extended technics, etc…- converge in his latest musical project, ChaTo: An experimental rock based duo with filmmaker/drummer Pablo Chavarria. With ChaTo, the composer undertakes a journey into unknown territories where elements of jazz, punk, rock, and noise can coexist only to be forged into something of its own species. Consequently with the nature of the project, all of ChaTo’s releases have been live recordings worked as a series of pieces that reflect the influence that the band have from musical and non-musical elements such as the performing space or the crowd to the changes in tempo and/or rhythm, or even the weather…

Julio Torres lives in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

More info at: www.irreverencegroupmusic.com/juliotorres


Susan Campos-Fonseca - Musicologist, composer & writer.

Doctor of Music, Master in Spanish and Latin American Thought from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Doctor of Society and Culture Studies, and graduated in Musical Direction by the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Susan Campos Fonseca stands as an international musical and artistic director, researcher, specialist in philosophy of culture and essayist in sound creation.
Her work, published in prestigious international journals and several anthologies, has been recognized with the Award of UCR 2002 University Council, the driver WASBE 2003 scholarship, the scholarship Carolina 2005 Foundation, "100 Latinos" (2007) Award from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid and Latin Fusion Magazine, the Visitor Scholar 2009 the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Corda Award 2009 awarded by the Corda Foundation in New York, Award "Outstanding University 2013" awarded by the University Council and Dean of the UCR, Musicology Award Casa de Las Americas 2012.

More info at: www.susancamposfonseca.com

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