Irreverence Group Music presents 11 Poemas de bar, Op. 12, the new studio album of Russian Mezzo-Soprano Yana Mann. The music, composed by minimalist composer Julián De La Chica, explores the most ordinary conversations that take place after 3:00 am in a New York bar.

07.24.20

Irreverence Group Music presents Voyeuristic Images Op. 10, the new piano cycle by composer Julián De La Chica, and which is part of his first film, Agatha. In this music, as in the film, De La Chica explores what is not obvious, what is uncomfortable, what creates impatience or anxiety.

07.18.20

Irreverence Group Music presents Julián De La Chica's first Symphony — An exploration of the composer's isolation in his studio in Brooklyn, NY. This work, for an orchestra of synthesizers, rethinks European canonical definitions of genres in a new form of creation during social distancing.

06.11.20

Music for walkers is OUT today. The new single of composers Susan Campos - Fonseca and Julián De La Chica, explore the sound during the pandemic times. A improvisation session recorded at the Irreverence Group Music lab in Brooklyn, NY.

01.10.20

IGM, presents Indigenae, the new album of the composer and musicologist, Susan Campos - Fonseca. In this work, Campos-Fonseca proposes a deconstructive exploration of the music of Costa Rican composer Marvin Camacho-Villegas and the sound cosmogonies of the Bribri-Cabecar people, working with extended techniques on the piano.

09.19.19

IGM proudly presents the new album of Soprano Rachel Hippert, featuring the early sacred songs of Julian De La Chica. Check out the video in which both singer and composer discuss Profanum, and hear some of the most stunning moments of Hippert's performance on the album. We are also delighted to share these artful and reflective notes on the album, written for us by American actor and Opera Star, Zachary James.

08.29.19
Live Recording

Composer Susan Campos-Fonseca joins young “transwoman” composer Eve Cordero to record Jardín de ceniza (despedida). In this recording, Campos-Fonseca together with Cordero, explores the possibilities of the "analog Noise" in an exercise of mutual listening.

07.23.19

Julián de la Chica wrote this tribute to Amy Winehouse 8 years ago when he heard about Amy’s tragic death while on a cab drive to his home in Brooklyn. He was in shock. On the radio Amy’s song “You know I’m no good” played.

06.11.19

Camp I is the new single of composer Julián De La Chica, feat. American cellist Benjamin Larsen. This work is part of his cycle Psychosis and is inspired by his trip to Poland in 2018.

05.20.19

Inspired by his mother’s illness, Julián De La Chica composed “Close your eyes” in 2012. The lyrics, written and recorded by jazz singer Omayra, tell a story of a love that ides but continues in each of us, even if only in memory.

02.28.19

IGM presents the album of Autómata, featuring music by composer Susan Campos - Fonseca. The whole process of creation of this album, involves a large quantity of information processes, language transformations and technological domains.

11.06.18

Inspired by his last trip to Berlin, Krakow and Warsaw, composer Julián De la Chica immerses in electronic experimentation and influences ranging from ambient and post-minimal, to genres such as acid, industrial and minimal electronic.

10.08.18

During the Summer, Composer Julián De La Chica visited Auschwitz for the first time. During his visit, he found himself drawn to the photo of a woman prisoner, Aniela. He composed this piece in her honor on his way back to Krakow.

06.06.18

An elderly woman who decides to burn all of her possessions (i.e., her memories) and to start all over. A girl who is kidnapped and murdered. A cyborg or robot who is subject to sexual and domestic slavery, becomes aware of herself and then rebels through pain as her weapon for freedom.

03.01.18

Described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” by The New York Times and crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, the celebrated pianist Lisa Moore releases a her album DE LA CHICA: PRELUDES OP. 8 on March 1st 2018.

09.07.17

Produced by Irreverence Group Music, this Special edition contains an alternative recording of the Cycle Op. 9's  first song, Präludium (Aufruf), in which Soprano Rachel Hippert collaborates with Costa Rican harpsichord player María Clara Vargas Cullell.

05.28.17

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Day Zero: A man, dressed in military uniform, committed suicide by throwing himself from the tower of the city’s cathedral. Fredy Vallejos, Arsenio Cardena and I were there when he fell. The cathedral is watched by four men from the past, “fathers of the church,” brought by the colonizers.

05.23.17

On September 13, 1970, a young composer named Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) published in The New York Times an article entitled "And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers", Ms. Oliveros addressed an unasked yet (tellingly so) critical question: “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?”

04.27.17

I assume minimalism as an asceticism. The Mexican duo ChaTo (Julio Torres and Pablo Chavarría) is characterized by choosing not to seek an extratemporal transendence in their live performances. For them, the instant is the only thing that exists: like a mandala, it is built to later be erased.

04.12.17

IGM presents Io sono la musica, the new single of New York based, Dominican Tenor José Heredia featuring American Soprano Rachel Hippert. The duet, composed by Julián de la Chica, tells the story of a man who loses his muse (music) and understands that only when he forgets his ego will he find her again.