Ensembles | Federico Bueno

Estrangement

Estrangement (2026)

for Brass Quintet

2026

Playing Time [15′ 20]

Estrangement is a piece for Brass Quintet that narrates an event that is becoming increasingly common these days: the isolation and division between groups of people. A constant hindrance in our society is the lack of open discussion, open minds or ideas, or, to put it more accurately, the reinforcement of a blind fanaticism that has covered humanity behind a veil of lost values. We have learned to lose empathy and comprehension, and destroy our essence step by step. Are we representing who we are supposed to be? Or are we walking in life stranded, without a clear path, just imitating what a big part of society thinks?

ASU Brass Quintet Ensemble
Leif Austin, Trumpet I · Diego Enrique, Trumpet II · Holden Welch, Trombone · Patrick Joyce, French Horn · Maxwell Godfrey, Tuba

Recorded at Katzin Concert Hall, Arizona State University.

Shifting Scenery

Shifting Scenery (2026)

for chamber ensemble

Playing Time: [7’35]

Shifting Scenery is a set of three pieces that illustrate unique textural landscapes. The first piece, “Impetus”, begins with an impulse of energy that remains constant throughout the entire piece. The first rhythmic impulse creates a series of dynamically contrasting gestures, as if we were drawing wavy lines. It is like a chain reaction, a constant movement of erratic dots. “Discontinue” is a piece focused on agglutination and dilation of the density in the time of events. Lastly, “Disturbance” illustrates the total richness of the layered noises produced by different means and instruments in a big crescendo that culminates in a final landscape of high-frequency beating. It is as if a high-intensity white light illuminates over a total grey and dark canvas.

David Durán, Piano · Diego Ventoso, Percussion
María Mogas, Acordeon · Roberto Alonso, Violin
Nuno Marquez, Electric Guitar · Pablo Coello, Alto Saxophone

VERTIXE SONORA

Recorded by Federico Bueno at Katzin Concert Hall, Arizona State University.
Recording Assistance: Han Hitchen.

Mixed & Mastered by Samuel Sahlieh

Artwork by Takehiro Shimase

All music ℗+© 2026 by Federico Bueno.
Catalog Number: DSP2026-005
Released on July 3, 2026.
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Distance and Contiguity

Distance and Contiguity (2025)

for Piano Trio

Playing Time: [11’40]

Distance and contiguity may be quite opposite terms, but at the same time, they can intertwine in
unthinkable ways. Once upon a time, I was certain that the closer I got to something, the better I
could understand it. The very fact of being close to an idea was what could shed light on it. The
exciting thing is that the mere passage of existence itself, the fact of taking distance from that idea,
is what illuminates what is happening in the proximity. This ignited my curiosity to be able to
demonstrate the union between two terms so antonymous to each other. The work is a set of four
pieces that paroxically contrast among themselves, in their interior and in their genesis, tend to be
thread that crosses them both vertically and horizontally. As well as a thread that connects me to
very personal moments of my life.

Max Martinez, violin · Faye Chu, cello · Diego Escobar Giraldo, piano

Recorded at Carter Concert Hall, Georgia Southern University.

Índigo

Índigo (2025)

for Duo for Voice and Piano

Playing Time: [5’]

Inspired by the color Índigo, this piece starts a journey of tones, timbers, and resonances that unwind leisurely to emphasize different
representations of canvas. There are four contrasting sections, where each canvas portrays a unique character and delimits
various collections of pitches. Each pitch collection is based on the frequency spectrum of colors, where Indigo is related in music
to a particular frequency pitch that is bounded between the other two pitches. There is an implied ambiguity in this, where during the first
three sections, there are highlighted different colors and pitches, getting closer and closer to the Índigo color that will arrive at the end of the piece.
There are experiments with timbres and with expansions and compressions of time. It is an abstract representation of different landscapes
that sum together to recreate the whole color palette, going from Brown to Red or Light Sky to Blue.
Each section has a different brush, density, and nuances in lights translated through low or high pitches,
as well as differences in shadows and emptiness, represented as muddiness and silence.

Chuweng Wang, Piano · Brissa Trondle, Voice

Recorded at Katzin Concert Hall, Arizona State University.