About this Piece

Fragmentos is a lyrical and emotional ride of small ideas that were wandering the corners of Vergara’s memory around a decade ago, drawn from scattered references and weaved intuitively into a whole. Inspired by Mateo Lewis’ album Sumas, Esteban Ríos Cruz’ poem “Bacuzagui,” Sigur Ros´s Heima, Carl Nielsen, and György Ligeti, Fragmentos photographs Vergara’s soundtrack, stimulus, and fascinations from the spring of 2014.

The quintet plays with the idea of transforming melody through accompaniment, and vice versa. The piece features pointillistic textures and asynchronous processes that are essential chaotic ingredients in Vergara’s music. Fragmentos shows an impulse to spice things up that, looking back, might reflect Vergara’s experience growing up in Mexico City, where—sometimes as a circumstance and sometimes just to deliberately make things whole—chaos is inherent to the beauty of life.

Fragmentos was composed for the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet and premiered in Sala Manuel M. Ponce at Palacio de Bellas Artes, CDMX.