_Around by Maria Vuelta,
for 6, 8 or 10 players, plastic bags, smartphones and stopwatch (2024)
Almost a white canvas which shows five transitions across six parts: five situations and one coda.
The sonic ecosystem of this piece depends entirely on the sounds brought into it by the performers. In this way, the work unfolds through a collaborative process of shared authorship. This is the reason behind its title: Maria Vuelta is a composer who does not exist, but who symbolically inhabits the blurred boundary between composer and performers within a framework of sonic ecology.
This piece has been performed three times with different ensembles in the city of Copenhagen (April 15th 2025, July 8th 2025, April 19th 2026). The first time, by an ad-hoc ensemble of professional musicians, the second time it was played by the Copenhagen based ensemble “Wolfskin Ensemble” and the third time it was performed by an hybrid ensemble of musicians and no-musicians in the context of a workshop at Koncert Kirken.
