Composer
Biography:
The Mexican composer Arthur Sources (born 1975) came to Europe in 1997; his musical path led him from Milan via Paris and Vienna to Innsbruck, where he lives today. He studied with Franco Donatoni in Milan and with Horacio Vaggione in Paris. Fuentes composes instrumental and electronic music and develops novel music theater projects that combine dance, video and electronics. His music is a meticulously arranged, kaleidoscopic chaos that pushes the boundaries of dynamics, timbre, texture and virtuosity. This music reveals an ever-changing sculptural pattern; one perceives a sound space filled with constant excitement, the search for an airy tonality.
Regardless of the form, the creative process of a piece is always “unfinished” for him. Arturo Fuentes likes to see his work as an »evolving form«. Paraphrasing a quote from the painter Paul Klee, who claimed that he "takes a line for a walk," Fuentes writes: "I choose a sequence of tones and take it for a walk. The breaks in the sequence, the tempo changes, the moments of pause, etc. all create an acoustic form and a musical context.«
His reference to painting is no coincidence. Arturo Fuentes says his music should be listened to as "a fusion of colors in a silo full of grain". Acoustic texture and instrumental synthesis are the elements that correspond to this idea of color in his music. For him, another form of design can be rediscovered in his work: like in a painting, the forms emerge from the mixture of colors.
But even if Arturo Fuentes sees the form of his music as a winding path, leaving the discursive musical line along the way, only to pick it up again after a number of detours, it seems to be very important to him that a work has a dramaturgical logic; a veritable guideline that guides the listener in discovering a world of sound. Texture, color and labyrinth are abstract, formative elements that enable the listener to grasp his music.
Albums:
Luka Juhart - Deconstructing Accordion:
