Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).

Recording of Bruno D'Auzon's Solipsismo. This work combines a finished text (in Portuguese) and its relation to a musical context. The composer has tried to combine the movement between sounds and speech, a poetic language without concern for meaning and in which sound objects or musical phrases may more easily support a concept or an image than words. The piece is divided into five parts, with the middle part playing a relaxing role where the theme is no longer human language.

A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Brazilian Chamber music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensembles, Brazilian Ensemble and Latin Jazz Lab Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of Marcus Bittencourt's Rabo-de-Arraia. This work was composed under the theme of "Les Maitres Sonneurs" and shares some folk traditions of Brazil. The idea of this work comes from several of the composer's memories of watching capoeira circles which acts as a martial art, dance, sport, game, and musical event. The ensemble of capoeira musicians in this work was recreated by computer algorithms.

Recording of Daniel Barreiro's Tempora. This composition is a result of research on musical time that includes voice and the percussion of various objects. The voice presents excerpts of texts on musical time and narrative time written by various authors. This piece premiered during the IV Studio de Mœsica at the Instituto de Artes da UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2001.

Recording of Michelle Agnes Magalhaes' Peixe. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken Portuguese, piano, and percussion.

Recording of Miguel Azguime's O ar do texto opera a forma do som interior. The composer describes this as a sound poetry stage work for a speaker/actor. This piece is made of 4 sections that follow each other without interruption and have the following subtitles: "Ar do Texto" (the Air in the Text), "Formant-Melodies", "Sem Recurso" (Without Resources), and "O Som Interior" (the Inner Sound). Although there are some spoken words in Portuguese, most of the text is meaningless and was written as sound compositions.

Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theatre.

Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Jazz vocal concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Advanced Afro Cuban and Brazilian ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensembles, Brazilian Ensemble, and Latin Jazz Lab Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, No Ouvido do Tempo. As a result, the Portuguese blends into Spanish and Italian intentionally, acting as a catalyst joining the notions of Columbus, Italian explorer, departing from Spain to explore the unknown sea; Columbus, whose writings in Spanish showed strong traces of Portuguese and Italian; and the fact that Portuguese and Spanish are the prevalent languages from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. In addition, by looking at the text in a kaleidoscopic way, "other" words and sentences, in existing or imaginary languages could be encountered. With all these elements, the composer "tells" the story of the opening up of a new world - struggles and religion as icons on the way to modern civilization. Voo is …

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin popular music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.