Meet the ComposHer: Angélica Negrón

Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes music for several instruments, including toys, electronics, and robotic instruments. She incorporates unusual sounds and instruments into her music.

Her works have been performed at several music festivals and concerts worldwide.

Learn more about her and her different and awesome works in the Meet the ComposHer of this week!

Not until I actually knew It was a possibility. I never saw living composers growing up so I didn’t know it was an option. Once I discovered composition everything made sense.

John Cage, Bang on a Can composers, Bjork, Ligeti, Kronos Quartet, Tori Amos, Shostakovich, Stravinsky & Sō Percussion

Starting something new.

Visual, layered, playful, deeply personal, unfolding and intuitive.

gone is a short piece for Sō Percussion inspired by things and people that have left us. It explores the visceral physical feeling of emptiness and absence while at the same time searches for connections and meaning in those things and people that are left. It is written for the quartet accompanied by four solenoid-powered noise makers built by Nick Yulman in which different inanimate objects are placed on top of surface poppers to create fast, erratic and incisive rhythms. These four modular music devices operate as a ghost-like presence sometimes interacting with the members of Sō and sometimes having a mind of their own. gone is a part of a larger scale work that I’m composing for Sō Percussion inspired by things I deeply care about but I’m sometimes afraid to confront.

Shelley Washington’s “Big Talk” was written for two baritone saxophones as a personal response to the repulsive prevalence of rape culture that can be observed in catcalling and sexual harassment that female-identifying persons experience and endure on a daily basis.