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Luis Fernando Amaya - guerilla de dientes entre los árboles

from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: In The Gallery by Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble

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[guerrilla of teeth amongst the trees]

Insects don’t have teeth—they are all teeth. For those who have
exoskeletons, their physical contact with their surroundings is
radically different from those of us who have skin around our bones.
Their touch and the sounds that it produces also differ
greatly from ours. This piece is inspired by the sounds that insects produce in their interaction with the world; beings whose
presence—sometimes annoying, sometimes scary, sometimes
welcome—is gradually disappearing from our daily lives.

The title comes from a fragment of the sixth poem of Pedro Varguilla’s book Marea: “Siénteme guerrilla de dientes entre los árboles”

Born in Aguascalientes, México, Luis Fernando Amaya is a composer
and percussionist currently based in Barcelona. Topics such as collective memory and the relationship between humans and non-humans (such as plants, animals, or environments) are commonly present in his work. He studied composition and music theory at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) and holds a Ph.D. in composition and music technology from Northwestern University.

Amaya’s music has been performed throughout the Americas and Eu-
rope by performers such as the CEPROMUSIC (México), Arditti Quartet (UK), Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (Switzerland), Ensemble Dal Niente, Fonema Consort (USA), Quartetto Indaco (Italy) amongst others. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships such as the Fonca-Conacyt (National Fund for Culture and the Arts/National Commission for Science and Technology) Scholarship, Presidential Fellowship (NU), and representing México in the 61st International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Helsinki, Finland.

As a performer, Amaya is a member of the collective composition and free improvisation trio Fat Pigeon. His scores are published by BabelScores.

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: In The Gallery, released January 24, 2023
Composed by Luis Fernando Amaya

www.luisfernandoamaya.com

Performed by
Kiernynn Grantham-Crumm, percussion
Kathei Hsieh, percussion

Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ New Zone Gallery, at the third of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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The Museum of Viral Memory Eugene, Oregon

A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind
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