Reviews & Press
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The Daily Hampshire Gazette:
Embark on a musical treasure hunt: Contemporary composers strike a chord with the sound walk at Look Park in Florence |
"Alejandro Lobo’s 'Where it Collides' combines sounds he recorded throughout New England and processed with snippets from documentaries and advertisements about pollution or other practices that hurt the environment, as well as samples of Maurice Ravel’s ' Jeux d’eau' and 'Une barque sur l’océan.'
...Lobo noted that this interactive installation functions differently. This is 'almost more like art than it is music in some ways,' he explained, emphasizing that visitors have total autonomy over their experience and can simply walk away whenever they choose. 'The length of the piece doesn’t always have to be the full length [that a listener experiences]. People control how much they listen to, where they listen to it,' he said..." Read More |
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UDaily:
A Fitting Coda |
"Alejandro Lobo said the title of his work, Deluge, a sinfonietta for chamber orchestra, might be misleading because it has nothing to do with rain or natural disasters.
'I’m thinking of a mental deluge,' said Lobo, a senior honors composition major at the University of Delaware. 'Most people in life have moments where they become overwhelmed. It’s like a turbidity in the mind. I’m trying to depict this sheer moment of uncertainty.' Although his composition depicts a moment of mental uncertainty, Lobo’s UD journey has been anything but uncertain... " Read More |
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The Review:
From Costa Rica to Delaware: Student composer's journey honors culture and identity |
"The concert covered a wide range of music styles, mostly contemporary. Some pieces were inspired by bird songs, some took motifs from Latin music — honoring his dad’s homeland of Costa Rica — and one piece was entirely based on distinct rhythms in the Vietnamese language. No piece was alike, but many had a theme inspired by sounds and processes outside traditional music composition."
"...Lobo took inspiration from the ancient Aztec civilization, Pompeii and fossils that are no longer useful to society. Using what he called “amoral” and “textural” elements — like groaning, creaking and breathing effects — Lobo compared the process to a painter using different materials. The non-traditional uses of the instruments, like the cellist dragging his bow across the wood and the pianist sliding a card across the keys, gave the piece a cinematic quality." Read More |
