Acoustic Music

an unne

an unne is a performance work for amplified voice and live video, rooted in a philosophical inquiry into gesture, presence, and the boundaries of sound. Emerging from my doctoral research at UC Berkeley, the piece explores how meaning arises not from fixed sonic objects, but from the interplay of action, tension, and the possibility of sound. Through transducer microphones placed on the performer’s body, even the most restrained movements—of breath, skin, or muscle—are amplified, transforming silence into an active, resonant space.

Rather than illustrating a narrative or emotion, an unne foregrounds the body as a site of emergence, where sound and gesture are inseparable. The score functions more as a system of activation than instruction, emphasizing performative intention over sonic result. In this way, an unne becomes a meditation on the instability of presence, the ontology of listening, and the fragile thresholds between what is seen, heard, and felt.

with Voice

Performed by Gageego

Nordic Music Journeys, RSNO New Auditorium, Glasgow January 2024 Alfred Jimenez - with Voice: My piece “with Voice” was selected and if I am to say some words about the piece I have to say something about my view on music in general. Definition and purpose are often confused where one often limits while to other is motivation and meaning, my first step is often to separate them. Rather than completely defining sounds, I try to change its reason and role in a performance, and though that, seeking to reduce definition. Instead of prescribing specific recipes for sound, I want to provoke responses from the performers, seeking a reflection of their being, innocence in their actions and a private purpose within each individual. I see it as both my duty and passion to explore a contemporary music performance that transcends tradition, preferences of genre, to come closer to an elusive nature of sound. The language which is used matters less than what is said and, most importantly, why it is said. My unwavering intention is to impact the performers and enable the audience to bear witness to that impact. With showcase concerts from contemporary music specialists Gageego! (Sweden) providing a snapshot of the latest new music from Sweden. Presented by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in collaboration with Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (Sweden's society of composers), the event is supported by Sweden's performing rights society, STIM.

no hay banda

No hay banda for solo trombone. Dedicated and premiered by Daniil Gorokhov 2021 in Basel, Switzerland.

No hay banda is an experimental work for solo trombone that investigates illusion, disjunction, and the instability of presence. Drawing its title and conceptual spark from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the piece explores the uncoupling of sound from gesture—what we see from what we hear, and what we think we understand from what remains hidden.

The performer navigates a fractured score where actions suggest sonic results that never arrive, and where sound emerges from unexpected or seemingly passive physical states. The trombone becomes both instrument and prop: a resonant object, a mute body, a conduit for failure and illusion. As physical exertion meets silence, and as sound resists the expected, no hay banda invites the audience into a space of unresolved tension—between presence and absence, authenticity and performance.

Habit of body

Habit of Body (2021) for baritone saxophone and double bass

Written for and premiered in the context of the 5th International ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week 2021 https://www.ilsuonoacademy.com/

Performed by: Michele Bianchini, baritone saxophone Giacomo Piermatti, double bass https://www.michelebianchini.net/ https://www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net/

sit down, all truths are kept silent

Recorded in Basel, Switzerland in November 2020 as part of the concert series "AnfAng"

Performed by Latenz Ensemble

Conducted by Friederike Scheunchen

Video: Erwin Fonseca ©latenz ensemble, 2020

Perpetuate Obstruction

Performed by Awkas Ensemble

Bera Romairone - Saxophones

Tatiana Timonina - Flutes

Yunah Proost - Cello

as a result of eccentricity

For solo Accordion.

Performed by Eva Zöllner (Home recording during covid 19)

Mute Ascends

Premiered by Vertixe Sonora

Jesús Coello - bassoon, Nuno Marques - electric guitar, Ángel Faraldo - electronics

Find a quiet place and gulp thick air

Performed in Basel by Ensemble Boswil 2020

No Drama:Synchronous Acts of Silencing

Text by: My Roman Fagerlind
Music and concept: Alfred Jimenez
Commissioned and made possible by The Swedish Arts Committee (Konstnärsnämnden)

———Musicians———
Conductor: Jaime Volfson
Bass Flute/Piccolo - Elena Gabbrielli
Bass Clarinet - Szilárd Benes
Voice: Elisabeth Ekberg, Mari Galambos Grue
Violoncello: Anna Maria Niemiec