Arturo Corrales is a composer, conductor, guitarist, professor and architect. Born in El Salvador and studied in San Salvador, Geneva, Lugano and Paris.

Co-founder of the Vortex Ensemble, for the creation of new music; he has participated in many international art festivals as a composer, teacher or conductor.

In spite of the experimental character of his music, his work is influenced by folkloric and popular sources and shows a constant concern for form and time-space perception, in a kind of « human scale music ». Actually he is the professor of composition and analysis in CPMDT (Geneva) and works on a doctoral thesis about «Musical Figures».

Currently, he is the professor of composition and analysis at CPMDT, artistic and musical director of the Orchestre des Trois-Chêne, Ensemble Vortex and Electric Primitivo.. He obtained a PHD in musicology from the University of Geneva, with honorable mention and congratulations from the jury unanimously; as well as the Barbour 2019 Award for excellence in aesthetic criticism.

Alfaque Rojo 3
for violin, baritone saxophone, percussion and amplified accordion

Alfaque Rojo 3 evokes the disturbing power of the undertow (Spanish: “alfaque”). Composed in El Salvador-where the sea is the pivotal element in the spirit of the place-it is an act of reconnection with the power of oceanic motions. Opposing tides, in the form of contrasting rhythms, generate struggling sonic cycles, like dancing currents, then converge into three eddies (“remolinos”): the first erupts energetically, before dissolving into a slow-motion dispersion; the second swings statically past the undertow flowing into the third, an ascent into a high-speed Metal fury. Influenced by the polyrhythmic aggression of the Metal band Meshuggah, the track invites the overcoming of the initial fear of complexity to dive into a marine immersion, meditative and intense.