Andrés Nuño de Buen (*1988 in Mexico City) strives for an immediate sensuality in his music, in which listening is central as a direct physical contact between the outer and inner worlds. His pieces are created through subtle processes of sound shaping and reshaping in haptic contact with acoustic and computer-programmed instruments. In Nuño de Buen’s music, sounds are both carriers of harmonically melodic energy and triggers of physical phenomena. In »Alquitara,« for example, tuning fork tones are amplified by resonating glass bottles and used as sine generators for a kind of ‘purely acoustic synthesizer’ brought to life in the 2021 Lucerne Festival Forward by twelve players from the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. For an upcoming collaboration with the Riot Ensemble, Nuño de Buen is currently developing a new, electromagnetically controlled version of this acoustic synthesizer that will interact with the London-based ensemble’s instrumental sounds. Several of his works use similar methods with acoustic and electronic means to make objects and instruments vibrate or change their sound. Andrés Nuño de Buen studied in Mexico City and Karlsruhe, initially with Wolfgang Rihm and Markus Hechtle. His compositions have been performed, among others, at the Berlin Contemporary Music Month, the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Festival Internacional Cervantino and the Juilliard Focus! Festival. Nuño de Buen has received numerous scholarships, including from institutions such as the Akademie der Künste Berlin (INITIAL Special Scholarship 2021), the Cultural Secretariat of Mexico (»Jóvenes Creadores« Scholarship 2014, 2018, 2021) and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung 2017).

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