Dorep Ámpora

“Dorep Ámpora” is an audiovisual piece for percussion and electronics. The name of the piece is a reorganization of the characters contained in “Pedro Páramo”, a novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Pedro Páramo is the “story of a town that was destroyed after submitting to the rule of Pedro Páramo, a despotic leader. In the novel, multiple stories blend with each other, and the narrative line does not unfold in a precise chronological order. Instead, there are three main guiding structures that generate a type of narrative that is associative, rather than chronological.

In “Dorep Ámpora”, the percussion performer(s) plays a three-part guided improvisations reacting to graphic scores. Each performance is required to be recorded, and the resulting audio and video are digitally reconfigured by the composer into the final, layered audiovisual piece.