REVIEWS

 

KAIROS

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"In Star Trail, José Luis Hurtado sculpts a luminous universe of sound—music that resembles light itself: expanding, reflecting, distorting. Through multilayered “parametric counterpoint,” space triumphs over time, revealing textures that shimmer between structure and spontaneity. Each work—Electric Dust, The Untitled 3S, In the Space of Time, Mutual Gravity, and the title piece Star Trail—unfolds as a sound installation of infinite possibilities, where every gesture refracts into new meaning. Born from close collaboration with extraordinary musicians, Star Trail represents Hurtado’s most mature vision: a luminous fabric of color, density, and freedom—music “always living, always giving … never ending.”

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Percosi Musicali by Ettore Garzia (Italy)

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"In Sartre's theory, imagination does not produce an infinite freedom of space. What we imagine is the fruit of an educated consciousness, one that sediments within itself knowledge, experiences, and intentions that emerge when we try to go beyond reality. This empirical lesson demonstrates that "imagining" means being faced with a "quasi-observation." Could this consideration be applied to an "imaginary" musical counterpoint, for example? Yes, especially if we highlight a variable parametric one. This is what happens with the music of composer José Luis Hurtado, whose overwhelming power we appreciate through his new monograph for Kairos entitled "Star Trail"... Hurtado's musical direction is anything but set in the classicism or conventionality to which art often directs us; it is pure avant-garde, with significant vision and the propulsion of a particular tension where the concepts of density, mass, consistency, multiformity of texture and structure, travel at full speed... With the support of the Laboratorio de Música Nueva, one of the most courageous in Mexico, Hurtado catapults us into a world of strained sounds, writhing strings, streams of sound, in homage to a phenomenology of star trails;... uniqueness can also be observed in the score, not only for its modularity but also for its graphic design, which seems to replicate the circuitry of a capacitor, with

dots, lines, hatches, and areas of concentration filled with gray."

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Reporters online by Cornell Evers (Netherlands)

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"José Luis Hurtado's "Star Trail"... tames cosmic and material chaos into

poetic sound architectures. ...places texture above melody: resonance becomes a trace of the ephemeral, rhythm encompasses chaos as well as silence, and space itself functions as a composer. ...structures this chaos into spatial textures in which timbre and texture dominate over conventional melody or harmony. ... invites an active mode of listening as an exploration of the intangible.

"Music here is no longer a flat wave of notes, but a three-dimensional experience that envelops and displaces. Philosophers such as Merleau- Ponty already understood space as something bodily and conscious— precisely what these albums enact, by allowing sound to breathe as living architecture. The listener becomes a co-player, absorbed into waves of reflection, silence, and resonance."

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La Voz de Michoacán by Yazmín Espinosa (Mexico)

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“Each work functions as a world unto itself, with its own internal rules and a clearly defined sonic identity, yet when heard together they trace a coherent, luminous arc that reveals the maturity of a deeply personal compositional voice. Listening becomes almost physical. The sounds seem to have weight, volume, and texture; they are perceived as objects that approach and recede, that assemble and disintegrate.”

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