Abstract/ Conceptual overview
Installation version
There is now an initial installation version as a parody of the boat trip.

In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe describes how the narrator's character kills the old man he lives with, how he hides the dismembered body in the scantlings of the chamber, and how he confesses the murder to the police after still hearing the beating of the old man’s heart coming from the underfloor where the body is hidden.

While not programmatic, this work –the installation and the musical composition- is based on Poe’s story and uses an old acoustic upright piano electronically and mechanically augmented for representing the sonic imagery described in the writing.

This three-movement radio artwork has three different layers that are combined during the piece. 1- poems, 2- viola motives, which are fragments of important viola works of different periods and composers and 3- sounds of the Central Observatorio Bus Station of México City. All the poems are by Gabriela Villa except "Este es un amor" by Efraín Huerta and "Te amo ahí contra el muro destruido" by Homero Aridjis. The viola works are by Bach, Ligeti, Feldman, Schumann, Reger, and Hindemith. Reading of poems are done by Gabriela Villa, Alina Amozurrutia, Emilio Domínguez, and Hugo Solís.

EnsAmble Crumble, an electro-acoustic improvisatory ensemble was formed at the beginning of 2005 by four musicians from France, Spain, Mexico, and The Netherlands all of them with interdisciplinary studies in music and sound technology.

In order to combine my various interests, I founded the NICROM Electro-acoustic Musical Improvisation Trio in 2001. This trio, consisting of two musicians and a painter, was a creative forum for sound and graphic experimentation and exploration. We were particularly interested in finding alternative means of producing coherent musical discourse based more on atonal and graphic manipulation than on the interval relations between sounds, which led us to explore the spectrum of noise and abstract painting.

RadioBANDA is a radio network art piece that consists of an installation of analog radios and a web server that people access to create music in real time. The final mix is then broadcast by a radio transmitter over 88.1 FM. (IN SPANISH)

I see each of my improvisations as a snapshot of the state in the development of my acoustical/technical/creative research. The style, technologies, and expressive intentions have significantly changed over the years but the use of the acoustic piano has remained as a constant. Even when I improvise only electronics and/or visuals, I treat the material with similar strategies where the notion of “structure” –sometimes recognizable, sometimes suggested- is of extreme importance.

Juum Duet, (www.DuoJuum.net) integrated by Hugo Solís and Gabriela Villa, is a free electroacoustic improvisation ensemble created at the beginning of year 2006. Both musicians, native Mexicans, share interdisciplinary interests and education which include music, music technology, digital media and speech.