Perro rojo fantasma (2017 - rev. 2018):
for piano quintet with electronics
premiered by the JACK Quartet and Daniel Walden, Harvard University, 2018/5/19
audio:
recording of the live performance by the JACK Quartet and Daniel Walden at Harvard University, 2018/5/19
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Perro rojo fantasma consists of five sections that are exactly 50 seconds in length. Although each section's beginning and end are very clear, they each contain material that behaves so differently in time that they might not be perceived as having the same duration.
My parents used to take me to a now-extinct restaurant/bar in the southern part of San José. At the entrance, there were five panels – wooden food trays – that had been painted to depict five different local legends. One of these panels showed a horrifying representation of the Cadejo, a Central American phantom dog that appears to drunk people late at night. The lighting at this restaurant was always remarkably dim; the waiter was a tall, remotely thin old man; the floor was covered in a red dust that you carried home on the sole of your shoes for days afterwards.
photo credit: Emiliano Zúñiga