Carlos Cotallo Solares

Composer and Improviser

2023
Extreme Metal Studies for pierrot ensemble – commissioned by hand werk

 

Fake Metal Trees for MalletKAT (2’5”) – commissioned by Lee Ferguson

 

2022
plano, línea, punto for improviser and video (4’20”) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

Vestiges for two pianos and stereo playback (10’35”) – commissioned by Johan Treichel

 

2021
See myself through your eyes, hear yourself through my ears for string orchestra and jazz band (14’30”) – commissioned by the Music School of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg (Germany) and the C.O.M. Hermanos Berzosa Cáceres (Spain) for the project YX//Change

 

November Snow video and stereo audio (5’9”) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

The Age of Oxymorons videos and stereo audio (38’34”) – with Pedro Pitarch (text and illustrations)

 

2020
Rational Gaze (based on the song by Meshuggah) for six percussionists and trumpet (5’15”) – commissioned by Black Forest Percussion Group

 

All Together Now for five performers and mono playback (3’) – selected for the Civitasolis Reed Quintet’s Call for Reed Quintet Miniatures 2020

 

Beethoven Interludes for piano, cello, video, and stereo playback (15’) – with Lourdes Germain (video)

 

Lines, Dots, Clouds, Pulses, Lines for three or more improvisers (≈15’)

 

2019
Ouroboros for microphones, cables, mixing board and speakers (≈10’)


Extreme Metal Study for virtual drum-set and group of performers (4’) – premiered by Ensemble Accroche Note

 

generations 3.1 for improvisers, chamber orchestra, video, and stereo audio (16’) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

Crash music for dancers and live electronics (20’) – with Christopher-Rasheem McMillan (choreography) – hosted by the College of Engineering, the National Advanced Driving Simulator, and the Department of Dance at the University of Iowa, and supported by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, UI Office of the Vice President for Research, and the Virginia A. Myers NEXUS of Engineering and the Arts

 

2018
generations 2.1 for improvisers and video (7’30”) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

generations 1.1 video and stereo audio (7’30”) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

Allemande for string quartet (7’)

 

Cerulean for microtonal trumpet with or without malletKAT accompaniment (3’) – commissioned by Stephen Altoft 

 

generations 0 stereo audio (7’30”)

 

Overdubs for piano and live electronics (8’)

 

Loud Soft Music / Soft Loud Music for one or more improvisers and live electronics (≈10’)

 

Obscenes for pierrot ensemble, conductor, objects, and live electronics (13’)

 

2017
Sonant video and stereo audio (3’15”) – with Timothy David Orme (animation)

 

Cartwheeling video and stereo audio (3’50”) – with Timothy David Orme and Dominik Schults (animation)

 

Karellen for string quartet, four-channel audio, and four-channel click track (15’) – premiered by JACK quartet

 

Decay for chamber orchestra (4’)


Allemande for baritone saxophone, accordion, and double bass (7’) – premiered by POING

 

Still Here for organ (5’)

 

2016
Cruces for oboe, bass clarinet, piano, and three percussionists (8’15”) – commissioned by Ensemble Container 

 

Voices from the Somme interactive sound installation

 

Three Canons for string quartet (9’) – premiered by JACK quartet 

 

Speed for stereo audio and two dancers (3’)

 

Moscas/Flies/Mouches for three percussionists (≈10’)

 

Nochenca for solo flute (2’)

 

Rondo for sax and stereo audio (4’30”)

 

El Arzobispo de Constantinopla eight-channel audio (8’)

 

2015
Canon for string quartet (3’30”)

 

Interrupted collaborative work for dance, video, and stereo audio (30’)

 

18-19/09/15 for piano solo (3’)

 

Branch for percussion quartet (8’)

 

Books, Grains, Scissors stereo audio (3’40”)

 

Glass stereo audio (10’05”)

 

2014
Sorry, Audrey for two clapping performers (4’30”)

 

Lead for three instruments (10’)

 

Variations on a theme by Schumann for cello and stereo audio (13’10”)

 

Azerty for voice and live electronics (12’30”)

 

2013
Concatenation for six instruments (6’30”) – selected for the 2014 Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy Competition and the 2014 Hanns Eisler Composers’ Forum 

 

Mountain Survival for one instrument (around 2’) – commissioned by Ensemble Chronophonie and hand werk 

 

Capriccio for harpsichord (4’30”)

 

2012
Drums Only for drum set (5’) – commissioned by Teresa Grebtchenko

 

Mango for electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum-set (7’30”)

 

2011
Oboe und Elektronik for oboe and stereo audio (5’30”)

 

Rückenfigur for flute, trumpet, vibraphone, and video (11’40”) – premiered by Ensemble Chronophonie 

 

Pause Deluxe for accordion, recorder, lute, and three cars (≈20’) – commissioned by Ensemble Alarm 

 

Adaptation of “Shelter” by Alvin Lucier for car, microphone, and delay (10’)

 

2010
Dash Dot for one cymbal (8’)

 

Suite für solo Geige for violin solo (6’)

 

Tangram for electric violin, electric guitar, bass guitar, and electronics (8’45”)

 

Was in einer großen Stadt draufgeht stereo audio (3’20”)

 

Music for the film “Even – As you and I” stereo audio and video (12’) – film by Roger Barlow, Harry Hay and LeRoy Robbins 

 

2009
Canard Digérateur for violin, viola, and cello (5’50”)

 

Music for the film “Bob” stereo audio and video (9’10”) – film by Chuck Close 

 

2008
Music for scenes from “Fando y Lis” stereo audio and video (16’) – film by Alejandro Jodorowsky

 

Persona stereo audio (12’10”)