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"I try to create sounds that I have never heard before.
I try to make music which technique is not evident and decisions are not obvious.
I tend to get away of the things that I know are going to work, or the things that I already know how to make."
JLH
Laboratorio de Música Nueva:
Proyecto apoyado por el
Sistema de Apoyos a la creación y Proyectos Culturales
Leonardo Chávez, violin
Alena Stryuchkova, viola
Diego Gutiérrez, cello
César Bernal, double bass
Maribel Pedraza, percussion
José Luis Hurtado, piano
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COMPOSER'S BIO
REVIEWS
"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.”
Percosi Musicali by Ettore Garzia
"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.