Darlene Zarabozo: Exploring Connection and Disconnection through Electronic Music

2021-06-18

Darlene Zarabozo is a Cuban-American composer, sound artist, musician and collaborator based in Glasgow. She is currently finishing her bachelor’s in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Linda Buckley and support from Alistair MacDonald in her electroacoustic studies. Recently, she is one of six composers to be shortlisted by New Music Scotland and Scottish Music Centre for ISCM 2021 for her text-spoken electroacoustic piece, The Inevitable Withdrawal (feat. text by Phoebe McGowan). She was also featured on BBC Radio Scotland: Introducing for her song, This H...

Recently, she is one of six composers to be shortlisted by New Music Scotland and Scottish Music Centre for ISCM 2021 for her text-spoken electroacoustic piece, The Inevitable Withdrawal (feat. text by Phoebe McGowan). She was also featured on BBC Radio Scotland: Introducing for her song, This Heart Breaks for You, which was broadcasted in March.

More recently, her piece, are You there?, won the violin and electronics commission for The Night With... for violinist Emma Lloyd.

List of pieces:

The Inevitable Withdrawal/Cheap Emotions

are You there?

The Bacchae

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Website Links:

Cheap Emotions:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6a3tvimVpaEstB3HsrRpWP?si=uc8YgQkMRVKVRdEIcmVMQg&dl_branch=1