De La Chica: Symphony No. 1, Op. 11
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.
Music for Walkers
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.
Jardín de Ceniza (Despedida)
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.
A woman of no importance (Cybernetics Oratorium)
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.
Lisa Moore - De La Chica, Preludes Op. 8
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.
Suicidio en Guayas (Live Recoring)
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.
Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
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?”
She Knows (Live at Na Bolom)
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.
Experimentelle und unbestimmte Lieder Op. 9
01.05.17
We live in a world where silence has been lost. We live in the constant search for social acceptance, and our universe revolves around social networks. "How can we talk about what is happening today in the world, if we do not know what is happening within us?"
De La Chica: Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5
12.07.15
Julián De La Chica considers himself to be an "experimenter”, not a "composer". However, he composes a micro-universe from naked atomic sound. The skin is a set of pores traversed by particles of world. The music of Mr. De La Chica explores the liminal atomic spaces between these pores and the world.
Minimal Aggression
09.18.15
NY-based, Colombian composer and pianist Julián De La Chica, and Costa Rican composer, writer and musicologist, Susan Campos-Fonseca, PhD (Casa de las Américas Prize 2012), present in the album Minimal Aggression a mutual ‘interrogation’ of minimalism, its possibilities, and its trajectory in the 21st century.