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Ángel DE LA HERA

Composed by

Ángel de la Hera

Instrument(s)

bass clarinet, cello, clarinet, flute, percussion, violin

With electronics

yes

Technologies

Computer assisted composition

Work premiered

November 2024

Venue of the premiere

Real Conservatorio Profesional De Música Manuel de Falla, Cádiz (Spain)

Duration

5 minutes

Commissioned by the XXII Festival of Spanish Music of Cádiz and the 2025 Manuel de Falla Composition Chair.

dumb-scrolling is a meditation on the overwhelming mechanisms of social media. Immersed in the rapid visual rhythms of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, we grow numb — perception fades, and memory erodes. The piece explores musical memory by subjecting iconic fragments of classical, Romantic, and popular music to saturation, 'TikTokization', and 'memefication', transforming them through digital ephemerality.

It ends with words by Antonio Gala: “Intelligence that does not help us to live — I do not want it. It serves me no purpose. I do not believe it serves anyone.”

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