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title: Compositions and releases — eme isaza
description: Music from field recordings, sine waves and found objects, released since 2008 on labels for sound art and experimental music.
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# Compositions and releases

> Music from field recordings, sine waves and found objects, released since 2008 on labels for sound art and experimental music.

- Date: 2008–present
- Type: composition / recordings / live
- Role: composition, recording, production
- Context: LINE (United States), Dragon's Eye Recordings (United States), 901 Editions (Italy), Eilean Rec. (France), White Paddy Mountain (Japan), Audiotalaia (Spain), Nova Fund (Mexico), Ediciones Éter and Akasha (Colombia)
- Sources: [Bandcamp](https://emeiszzz.bandcamp.com/music) / [Macondo on LINE](https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/macondo) / [Māyopama on 901 Editions](https://901editions.bandcamp.com/album/m-yopama) / [Tempiternidad on Dragon's Eye](https://dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tempiternidad) / [Uji on Eilean Rec.](https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/uji)
- Related in portfolio: [Macondo](https://www.emeisaza.com/#line-092-edition-line) / [Māyopama](https://www.emeisaza.com/#mayopama) / [Tempiternidad](https://www.emeisaza.com/#tempiternidad) / [Uji](https://www.emeisaza.com/#uji) / [Neti neti](https://www.emeisaza.com/#neti-neti) / [Levedad](https://www.emeisaza.com/#levedad) / [Kairós](https://www.emeisaza.com/#kairos) / [Noumena](https://www.emeisaza.com/#noumena) / [Upallay](https://www.emeisaza.com/#upallay) / [flor](https://www.emeisaza.com/#flor-2) / [trébol](https://www.emeisaza.com/#trebol-2) / [Los sonidos no caen al suelo](https://www.emeisaza.com/#los-sonidos-no-caen-al-suelo)

eme has composed and released music since 2008. Most of it begins with field recordings, sine waves, found objects and acoustic instruments, worked with microsound techniques until mass, texture, grain and density carry the piece. Two questions return across the records: how sound holds time, and where sound sits between the material and the immaterial. Earlier solo work carried other names, Isz, Roedor and Arpa among them, and songs appear as [eme Zzz](https://emezzz.com).

#### On other labels

Much of the catalogue was published by independent labels devoted to sound art and experimental music. *Uji*, on Eilean Rec. in 2014, sets charango, pan flutes, harmonica and a music box among field recordings and sine waves; its title is Dōgen's word for being-time. *Tempiternidad*, on Dragon's Eye Recordings in 2015, was made with a laptop and a handheld recorder in the mountains of Antioquia between April and June of that year, after Raimon Panikkar's idea of tempiternity. *neti neti*, on Nova Fund in 2016, works with recordings made in and around Montevideo's Metropolitan Cathedral and its organ. *Māyopama*, on 901 Editions in 2017, was composed mostly from recordings in Rome, Naples, Benevento and rural Fortore, some of them made during the Liminaria residency. *Macondo*, on LINE in 2017, takes the town of *One Hundred Years of Solitude* as a model of a place that is and is not, and weaves field recordings, found objects, synthesizers and electromagnetic fields gathered since 2012 for the ALEPH research with Rossana Uribe and Camilo Tamayo.

Image: Ten square album covers in two rows: soft abstract photographs in grey, blue, sand and teal, a few with small serif titles.

Caption: Uji, Levedad, Tempiternidad, neti neti, Kairós, Māyopama, Macondo, Noumena, Upallay and Flor, 2014 to 2021.

#### On Éter

Éter published the records closest to home. *Levedad*, in 2014, gathers six pieces made in Medellín from field recordings, instruments and found objects. *Kairós* followed in 2016, *Noumena* in 2018 and *Upallay* in 2019, the last two in the Akasha series, where microsound, ambient and field recording meet poetry and mysticism. *Flor*, in 2021, is an album of songs released as eme Zzz, a line that continued with the *trébol* EP in 2024 and a run of singles in 2025.

#### In the room

The compositions also take the form of installations and concerts. *Los sonidos no caen al suelo*, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in 2019, is a multichannel acousmatic installation built on a forty-minute composition from material gathered and processed over more than ten years. In concert the approach stays acousmatic: eme plays from the middle of the audience or behind it, with little light and several channels, so that the room and the sound are what people attend to.

Image: A dark room with a single low armchair lit by a spotlight, the listening space of the installation.

Caption: Los sonidos no caen al suelo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, 2019.

#### What listeners wrote

Reviewers tended to hear the care in the detail. Writing on *Uji* for [Fluid Radio](https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2014/09/miguel-isaza/) in 2014, Matt Gilley singled out soundscapes "that come with a shadow of the unknown, a little discord, and the attendant thrill of that." Lee Rosevere, at [Make Your Own Taste](https://makeyourowntaste.com/2014/09/08/miguel-isaza-uji-2014/), found the same album "extremely inventive and hauntingly beautiful" and "recommended for quiet times." On *Tempiternidad*, Brian Housman of [Stationary Travels](https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/travelogue-2015-48-dragons-eye-recordings/) heard sounds that were "pristine, crisp, and articulate," with drones that fall away into "a transportive sense of environmental awareness," and called it "an exquisitely crafted collection that deserves to flow through audiophile quality gear to be fully appreciated." eme has also spoken about the practice behind the records, among other places in the Creative Field Recording series A Month of Field Recordists in 2016.

## Selected work

- [Sonic Field](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/sonic-field.md)
- [aleph::ch'ixi](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/aleph-chixi.md)
- [Éter Lab and Auditum Fest](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/eter-lab.md)
- [Momoto Studio](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/momoto-studio.md)
- [Writing and editorial](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/writing-editorial.md)
- [Compositions and releases](https://www.emeisaza.com/work/releases.md)

- [Portfolio](https://www.emeisaza.com/index.md)
- [Agent instructions](https://www.emeisaza.com/llms.txt)