Javier Party

This piece is a version of "Notrain" with a somewhat more agile arrangement. It won the 2nd place of the Hoer.Spiel Composition Competition 2012 granted by the Institute for Creative Media Technologies of the University of Applied Sciences of St. Pölten, Austria.

Chamber poem for piano. This piece is based on my homonymous poem. The music arises from the translation from the verbal poem, originally written in Spanish, to purely musical material. For the transmutation of the semantic content into the abstract sound-world of music I used a system, which I developed for the composition of this piece. This consists basically of a network of trans-parametric mappings, which is based on the binary system. The musical gestalt of the piece and the particular way of interpretation it requires, follow the lyric of the original poem.

For mixed choir in 8 parts (ssaattbb). Based on my poem El no que niega, written in four languages.

This piece is based on my homonymous poem and is included in the album Chilean Art Song: The Last 100 Years, published in 2019 by the International Society for Chilean Music (SIMUC).

Stereophonic track.

Acousmatic music theater. The music develops around texts from Aeschylus, Borges, Camus, Dante, Goethe, Plato and Striggio, which Bernd Reutler, inspired by the work of sculptor Janine Kortz-Waintrop, selected. The texts are recited integrally in the piece and make up it's central axis: death, Im Schattenreich (in the realm of the shadows). Voices: Katherina Biehler, Barbara Scheck, Nicolas Bertholet, Bernd Reutler, Dieter Hofmann, Peter Tiefenbrunner.

Stereophonic track. This piece was composed during the residency at I-Park with sound material taken from the natural environment of the area. With simply beautiful rhythm patterns of two and three pulses, the tree frogs play the sound-track to the North American twilight in the woods, by the brook, in the hut, on the wooden path beside the pond's shore, on the fallen leaves beside the marsh's shrub, on the way into the night of the hurricane. Crickets and branches refine the sound field, people with untold stories and subdued signs of civilization in the enigmatic distance complete the Plot in Notrain. No train - Not rain.

A piece for 5 stereophonic tracks and 10 loudspeakers, composed during the residency at I-Park with piano, percussion and sound material taken from the natural environment of the area. The sounds of nature, the piano and the percussion are distributed along a trail in the woods with an installation of loudspeakers.

Stereophonic track. This piece is based on the manipulation of natural sound material of the environment on the temporal plane. The paradox of sound material reduction in the context of the idea of what is music and what is not.

Based on my homonymous poem. A version of this piece by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Barrientos and pianist Luis Alberto Latorre is included in the album Chilean Art Song: The Last 100 Years, by the International Society for Chilean Music (SIMUC).

Mutagiróplanos is a structural graphic guide for group improvisation. The piece is made up of 28 states and each participating person uses the same number of states. The temporal order of the states may be defined individually or jointly. Each state's duration may be either fixed in advance or improvised. The interpretation of the states and the implicit structure is free.

Based on my homonymous poem, written in four languages. Each singer must write an own text as well.

The conception of the sextet is inspired in elements of the ritualistic dance of the Mapuche people, natives of southern Chile. As for us here in Europe, dance is for them a ritual, in which repetition plays an important role. "Pürún" means "dance" in Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, while "raquis" comes from the Greek ῥάχις and it refers to the concept of "spine" or "backbone". This unusual "backbone dance" occurs in the sound context of a symmetric harmony with a character rich in contrasts, sometimes quite aggressive and sometimes extremely gentle.

The piece germinates from the study of the music of three icons of French composition: François Couperin (1668-1733), Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Pierre Boulez (1925-2016). This study crystallizes in my piece both in the concrete musical material, like harmony and melodic articulation, and at the level of the syntax. The piece has nevertheless its own character, with returning suggestive passages, which emerge from the structure, and an irregular but comprehensible form.

A pretentious lightweight surrealist and cryptic parody to ontology of music. Time and space subjugated to esthetic principles. Based on my poem Ich klinge, ich bin (I sound, I am).

Based on my homonymous poem.

This video-electroacoustic work is based on my violin octet Transfiguraciones de Calostro. Seven of the eight violin parts are recorded and electronically distributed accordingly in space. The violinist plays the remaining violin part live together with the recorded ones. The result is an ensemble where the eight players are the same person. Thanks to the collaboration of violinist Tigran Hakhumyan and visual artist Julian Bergheim.

Time game, space game and improvisation for viola, electric guitar, cello, trombone and quadraphonic pre-composed electroacoustic track.

Controlled improvisation and experimental music theater for trombone and octophonic live electronics. 1. Awakening (childhood), 2. Introspection (adolescence), 3. Dialogue (youth), 4. Memories (adulthood), 5. Death (old age).

Film music. Electroacoustic work for the short film "Zwillinge" from Julian Bergheim.

This piece was recorded professionally in 2007 at the Saarländische Rundfunk, the state radio and television station of Saarland, in Germany.

Film music. Electroacoustic work for the short film "Nebensache" from Claudia Stange.

The piece is meant to be played by a computer.

This piece was included in the album "Construir, sonar, pensar", produced together with other Chilean composers thanks to the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Chile.