Luis Tabuenca
Luis Tabuenca is a composer and percussionist born in Zaragoza, Spain. He studied in Zaragoza, Barcelona (ESMUC), Amsterdam and at the University of California, San Diego, where his mentors included Steven Schick, Philippe Manoury and Mark Dresser. He founded Ensemble Volavérunt in 2014 and directed the FAT contemporary music and sound art festival from 2011 to 2017. Insula Dulcamara (2018), a piece whose sound comes from a bicycle wheel, is on Naturstudium (Mode, 2023), an all-acoustic album of percussion timbre with liner notes by Steven Schick.
Naturstudium III
In Naturstudium III, Luis Tabuenca, together with Les Percussions de Strasbourg, explores the sonic worlds of the Baschet sound sculptures—resonant bodies of metal, glass, and wood that oscillate between instrument and architecture. From their dialog…
Insula Dulcamara
Six first recordings for solo percussion by Luis Tabuenca, each named after a work by Paul Klee, played acoustically with no electronics beyond amplification, with liner notes by Steven Schick.