ICMC BOSTON 2025

Online Listening Room

Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology

June 8-14, 2025

ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #3

ID#: 619

Urbana Core Symphoniae (2024); 9:22

by Camila Albarracín

Independent Artist

Urbana Core Symphoniae (UCS) is a work that explores intelligence as a fundamental tool for interpreting and navigating the world. It starts from the premise that intelligence is not only an analytical capacity but also a bridge between the subjective and the objective, the rational and the intuitive. Through this perspective, the work offers a meditation on the role of intelligence in the contemporary era. In this context, UCS contrasts organic intelligence—human intelligence, shaped by experience, emotion, and intuition—based on patterns, and data processing. The work seeks to generate a reflection on how these two forms of intelligence interact, complement, or oppose each other in a world where technology is redefining our structures of knowledge, perception, and decision-making. Beyond a simple confrontation between the human and the artificial, UCS suggests that the coexistence of both intelligences may open new creative and philosophical possibilities.

Camila Albarracín

I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Music (UNTREF), and I am a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and educator residing in Villa Bosch, Buenos Aires Province. My work focuses experimental, on instrumental, and art-sound composition. I am a member of the Argentine Union of Female Composers (UNACOM) and I am pursuing a postgraduate degree in Sound Art at UNTREF. My works have been performed by various ensembles, such as the UNTREF string quartet and the Argentine Air Force Chamber Ensemble, and I have participated in major events at venues like the Kirchner Cultural Center and Mutek Argentina. Throughout my career, I have composed mixed works, acousmatic music, music for video games, theater, short films, and audiovisual productions. My repertoire includes pieces for string quartet, violin and piano, clarinet and tape, percussion set, as well as arrangements for cello, chamber ensembles, guitar trio, and saxophone/flute, among others.

* winner, Berklee College of Music internal music composition competition for ICMC Boston 2025

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