SPATIAL WORKS

Kinatalí-an [work-in-progress]
2025-2026. for bass clarinet, guitar, piano, double bass, and electronic fixed media in 5.1 surround sound — with spatial configuration. created in part during a MacDowell artist residency with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

Kinagisnán
2023. for spoken word and spatialized chamber ensemble in three groups: percussion, bass clarinet, bass trombone /// percussion, oboe, horn /// percussion, two violins, viola, cello, harpsichord. commissioned and premiered by New Music Concerts featuring Patrick de Belen with the support of the Ontario Arts Council. completed during an artist residency at Willapa Bay AiR (Oysterville, WA).

Kinalugarán
2022. modular work for eight flutes (doubling percussion, with spatial configuration) and fixed media in quadraphonic 4.0 sound. featuring the voices of Ramon Alfonso “Chino” Soberano, Marie-Luise Calvero, and Riley Palanca. commissioned by New Music Concerts with the support of the Ontario Arts Council. this work can be performed as a spatialized flute octet, as a fixed media piece/audio essay, or both at the same time.

In Stars We Lose Our Way…
2018. for soprano, mezzo-soprano and mixed quartet — with spatial configuration. composed for the music drama “Coming Home,” produced by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto).

Pangkur
2017. modular work for alto flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), percussion, piano, violin, cello. this work can be performed as a piano+percussion duo, as a mixed quartet, or as a full sextet. with a sextet, the two groups are spatialized within the performance space. texts from traditional Javanese poetry used in Ladrang Pangkur.

Studies in Exile
No. 1: 2017. for oboe, viola, harp and percussion — with spatial configuration. text from a haiku written by Riley Palanca.

No. 2: 2017. theatre piece. for alto flute (doubling piccolo), guitar, animator/dancer/soprano — with spatial configuration. text from a sestina written by Riley Palanca.

No. 3: Home is not a place on a map. 2018-2022. interdisciplinary work: aerial dance, spatialized musicians and fixed media. collaboration with Amy Hull (dancer, choreographer), Rebecca Devi Leonard (aerial artist, choreographer), and the Thin Edge New Music Collective.

No. 4: Paagos. Drift. 2019. sound art/audio documentary for 6.1 surround. collaboration with Sarah Maria Samaniego (dancer, choreographer) for the dance work Paagos. haiku poetry by the composer. documentary features the voices of composer Sandeep Bhagwati, poet Bänoo Zan, and Juro Kim Feliz.

C’est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes…
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. 2016. for 2 oboes, tuba and piano — with spatial configuration.

Gandingan sa Kagiliran
Gongs in the Horizon. 2014. for two percussionists with spatial configuration. texts from Pagniig ng Paghihiwalay ng Liwanag at Dilim by Anna Patricia Rodriguez.