ROADTRIP (2024)
Drama
This film about a roadtrip of a gang of four to visit the wake of a friend. The score features electronic pop and light orchestral elements.
TOPAKK (2023)
Action
Topakk is a Filipino Action film directed by Richard Somes. The score features a mix of electronic and rock elements.
NOCEBO (2022)
Folk Horror
Nocebo is a Filipino-Irish psychological thriller film directed by Lorcan Finnegan from a screenplay by Garret Shanley. The film stars Eva Green, Mark Strong and Chai Fonacier. Instrumentation includes Full Orchestra, Choir, Filipino ethnic instruments and percussion.
СТРАЛА (2022)
Composer: Jose Antonio Buencamino
Musicologist: Irina Hlinchikaya
This work is a modern interpretation of the ancient themes of the slavic spring rite found in regions in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus called the "Driving and burying the arrow (Вождение Стрелы)," which dates back to pre-Christian times. Women gather into streams from various points of the village, singing different songs of the rite (Стрельные песни) as they all flow into the center. Then they form a circle and perform a combination of round dance and singing
(Хороводы). Afterwards they take to the fields, invoke the gods’ blessing for a bountiful harvest, and plant the “lightning-arrow” (Стрела) into the earth, embodied by an object precious to the performers of the rite, and usually of a metallic material. In some regions a doll is buried into the field, signifying what once was a human sacrifice. The women then gather blades of grass and take them home, signifying the dissolution of the rite and the beginning of summer.
This is a demo version of a 35+ minute music-theater work performed in Belarus in June, 2024.
ULAP, ALITAPTAP (2021)
Composer: Jose Antonio Buencamino
Performed and recorded by the Ripieno Ensemble for the Soundbridge 2021 Virtual Festival in November 2021
Conductor - Alexander John Villanueva
Soprano - Pauline Arejola
Flute - John Owen Castro
Bb Clarinet - Danelle Dionisio
Violoncello - Joseph Emmanuel Hernandez
Piano - Sara Matsuura
This piece is about the flight of fireflies in an open field, the reflection of moonlight onto wet grass, and the interplay between these concepts of motion, glimmering, and line.
PINAGINIPANG HIBLA (2020)
Composer: Jose Antonio Buencamino
Sound Engineer: Sean Angelo Ilagan
This is an orchestral piece in three movements following the imagery of the creative process of weaving. The piece was inspired by the T'Nalak of the T'boli people from South Cotabato who find their patterns from nature and are gifted patterns in their dreams. This is my weave of the lines and colors that have come to me in my days, my in-betweens, and my dreams.
duration: 21:13
TATÔ (2019)
rev. 2020
Composer: Jose Antonio Buencamino Sound Engineer: Sean Angelo Ilagan Clarinet Extended Technique Samples: Tony Park Visuals: Visual Artist: Manny Montelibano Additional Footage & Edits: Jose Antonio Buencamino and Biag Gaongen Movement: Biag Gaongen
The music was inspired by the flowing of the ink, of the pricking of the skin, of the steady formation of the patterns, and of war and ritual, with which tattooing is associated.
duration: 18:55
MANGA HAYOP (2019)
Manga Hayop (“the animals”, or “monsters”) is the Ibalong in sound. The Ibalong is a Bicolano epic about the formation and the deformation of the Bicol region in southern Luzon. The epic in its written form exists in Spanish as written by Fray Bernardino de Melendreras, O.F.M. in the 19th century, but the epic in its oral form predates the arrival of the Spaniards as it contains references to old landmarks such as mountains and volcanoes with their pre-Hispanic titles. The piece calls for us to reflect on the destructive capacity of an unchecked social drive to build and develop.
Michelle Mariposa - Mezzo-Soprano
John Owen Castro - Flute
Ricardo Juanito Balledos - Guitar
Alexis Constantino - Percussion
Lawrence Valenzuela - Percusion
Chico Macorol - Percussion
duration: 27:37
ULAN (2019)
“Ulan” is comprised of five movements on personal scenes and experiences with rain.
John Owen Castro - Flute
Danelle San Andres Dionisio - Bb Clarinet
Jeffrey Abueg - Bass Clarinet
Miguel Delos Santos - Violin
Joseph Emmanuel Hernandez - Cello
Dr. Michelle Nicolasora - Piano.
duration: 10:47
HININGA (2018)
"Hininga" is a work for Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Kulintang, and Vibraphone that was premiered in Thailand as part of the 2018 ASEAN youth ensemble. The piece is on the imagery of the spirit entering and then leaving the body, and explores the harmonic series of the kulintang.
Conductor: Peter Veale
Violin: Ho Jin Jeong
Viola: Phattarapoj Sawangchaeng
Cello: Hee-Jung Gil
Guitar: Peerawit Aunruan
Kulintang: Harold Santos
Vibraphone: Eun Hye Kim
duration: 7:00
Solo piece for Bb Clarinet with Nina Janssen-Deinzer as a participant of the 2018 Manila Composer's Lab
duration: 2:56
HIKBI (2018)
WORKS
2024, Near Death, Film Score
2024, Страла (Arrow), Music-Theater
2024, Парадоксы доли (Paradoxes of Duty), Sound Installation
2024, Roadtrip, Film Score
2024, Ang Una't Huling Sakay, Short Film
2024, Sirens, Audio-Visual SSAA Choral Piece
2023, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, Film Score
2023, Family of Two, Film Score
2023, Road killers, Musical Scoring for a Series
2023, Doon Po Sa Amin, Sound Design for Theater
2023, Red, Sound Design for Theater
2023, Mga Halimaw rin Kami, Sound Design for Theater
2023, Room 209, Sound Design for Theater
2023, Hukay, Sound Design for Theater
2023, Breezes by the Shore, piece for Carillon
2022, Topakk, Film Score
2022, NOCEBO, Film Score
2022, Hirang
2022, Filipino Project Ep. 3, Video Score
2021, Filipino Project Ep. 1, Video Score
2021, Ulap, Alitaptap, Voice, Flute, Bb Clarinet, Cello, Piano, and Live Electronics
2021, Life at the End of the Tunnel, dance, five cellos and electronics
2020, Hinugot sa Hangin, Carillon
April 16, 2020 Future, collab with Delphine Buencamino, chamber ensemble w/ tape
May 26, 2020 Pinaginipang Hibla, chamber orchestra
May 26, 2020 Pagpapalayang-Kahoy, chamber orchestra
Feb. 27, 2020 Tubig: Agos, - co-composer and programmer - audio-visual reactive electronics, cello, dance
Dec. 5 2019 Cello solo 1, cello solo
Oct. 25, 2019 Tatak: Tato, CCP Choreographers’ Series NeoFilipino with Biag Gaongen, chamber orchestra w/ Tape
April 26, 2019 Manga Hayop, chamber ensemble
April 26, 2019 Ulan, chamber ensemble
April 26, 2019 H-in-ahanap, bass clarinet solo
April 26, 2019 Hanap-in, bb clarinet solo
Nov. 28, 2018 Have a Christmas, rock band
September 14, 2018 Will you still love me? - Julia Buencamino Project, guitar solo
October 8, 2018 Solos: Dagat, percussion ensemble
October 5, 2018 Winds, wind quintet
August 31, 2018 Hininga, Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (Thailand), chamber ensemble
July 20, 2018 Hikbi, UP College of Music Mini-Hall (Nina Janssen-Deinzer), Manila Composer’s Lab 2018, clarinet solo
June 8-9, 2018 The Yellow Shawl, the UP Dance Company, chamber orchestra with tape
April 14, 2018 Hope is the thing with feathers, Ateneo College Glee Club, Blue Harmonies Contest Piece, choir
Dec. 5, 2017 Agaw-Dilim, UP College of Music, soprano & two pianos
Oct. 22, 2017 Ania ‘ti Nagan Mo? directed by Ice Idanan, film score
Sept. 6, 2017 Golgota Nights, directed by Justin Romero, UP Cine Adarna, film score
Sept. 4, 2016 Prayer, CCP Little Theatre, Centennial Celebration of Francisco Arcellana, baritone & piano
March 8, 2016 Ripple, UP College of Music Mini-Hall, Pluckado, guitar duet
April 22, 2015 Jai, UP Amphitheater, Bulan at Karawitan, flute solo