Victor Ibarra's style draws on the most varied resources that outline a genuine language. Every part is immersed in micro-tonality, with a precise harmonic structure that becomes, many times, intertwined and even obsessive, accented by the rhythmic energy that turns into an essential component of his speech or the use of instrumental virtuosity, as a tool to create spaces and dimensions. The influence of French spectralism helps him work with a coloristic and timbral intention, although not exclusively, and an interdisciplinary dialogue which, usually set with plastic arts, print a personal mark on his work that is always approached with clarity in his compositional instincts and ideals.

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Victor Ibarra's music, by producing cuts, cracks, outbreaks and eruptions, erodes the conditions of common listening. It is characterized by sudden changes and contrasts, but is held together by a strong energy.

Víctor Ibarra is professor of composition at the University of Guanajuato in his native country Mexico. His career has taken him to numerous European centers for New Music, where he has received several awards. With this recording of the Ensemble Vertixe Sonora under Nacho de Paz there is now a monographic CD of the remarkable Mexican composer.

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