Tendón was made with the financial support of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts through its Jóvenes Creadores 2014-2015 Grant. The piece was written for Vertixe Sonora Ensemble and was premierend at the III. Festival International de Creación Musical Contemporánea vertixeVIGO15 at the Verbum Museum in Vigo, Spain.

Two issues were especially important to me in writing this piece: 1. The intention to work with static musical forms that are capable of generating dynamic listening experiences. To think in terms of form from a perspective that is closer to sculpture than to drama or narration and to shape sound objects with properties that remain intact during the piece but require time to be perceived as such. 2. To conceive these objects as flexible bodies, charged with contained energy. There is no overflow, explosion, or transformation in them; only desire, longing to erupt, to pour that energy into another body, into another form: physical tension and relaxation as a fundamental principle for the whole composition.