Give Me Grace
Soundtrack - 2026
Short film soundtrack produced by me in collaboration with Sebas Cartas.
Journey to Reverence
Soundtrack - 2026
Short stop-motion animation film scored by me.
Link to video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@shmaladriel/video/7683589732999154951?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
Desde Donde?
Video - 2026
This moving image piece explores the fragmentation of identity within the Colombian diaspora. Desde Donde? (meaning From where? or Starting where?) is a video collage that accompanies a narrated poem I wrote titled ¿Desde Donde Empezó A Correr Mi Sangre? (Where Did My Blood Start To Flow?) where I recount through metaphor and the personification of blood the history of the Spanish conquest, the slave trade and subsequent mixing of Black, Indigenous and Spanish people in the land my parents call home.
Desde Donde? reflects on patterns of displacement by comparing it to the flow of blood, how it existed within every person then and flows through me now.
I Am Soft
Soft Sculpture and Performance - 2025
Inspired from a semester I spent abroad in Dublin, I Am Soft is a large self-portrait soft sculpture and performance piece that encompasses a new understanding I gained of myself in Ireland. Before going, my self-perception was not whole, I lacked the vision of my softness, goodness and love, struggling to indulge in these qualities for myself. But to be in a bustling new city alone meant to be held by myself, loved by myself, soft towards myself.
Friendly Scarf of Entropy
Electronic Wearable Garment - 2026
Friendly Scarf of Entropy exists in the space where practicality and impracticality overlap, to imagine different futures with wearable technology through the absurdity of creating a wearable friend. Made with real lamb hide this half-faux stole in the shape of a two-headed friend sits covering an acrylic frame with built in stepper motors controlled by an Arduino UNO. The stepper motors automate a lifting and falling movement in the neck of the scarf that covers and uncovers the wearer’s face---a gesture of protection and comfort that is turned odd and uncanny.
Born Of My Hands, The 40106
Performance - 2024
This performance re-evaluates how technology is meant to serve us through the act of me playing a 6-voice synthesizer I built from scratch. Efficiency under capitalsim grows parasitic, oligarchs who develop technology brand the evolution of their products as efficient with the purpose to “make our lives easier”. Meanwhile our independence becomes obsolete. This synth is tricky to play, it is loud and unpredictable, but it is playful, intriguing and stimulating. What if the future of technology consisted of obstinate interfaces? What if technology served us by challenging us instead?
Arms Raised, Under the Branches
Video - 2024
This is a video poem I made as a passion project for a poem I wrote in Spring of 2024 when I spent a day with friends sharing our deepest woes and darkest secrets in the beautiful wilderness of Lynn Canyon. All the nature shots in this video were taken in the same location where the poem was written, these shots contrast with the ones of me swallowed in red light, creating a push and pull narrative up to the viewers interpretation. This was filmed, shot and edited by me using a Canon 90D camera and Premiere Pro. The music and narration was also done by me, instrumentals and field recordings were done with a Zoom H6 and all edited on Adobe Audition.
Los Martinez del Barrio Modelo
Video - 2023
Using footage of my father’s family taken on a defunct film camera c.1970 I created a memorial video to my late grandmother. I interviewed my father and aunt to tell me about her life and included audio clips of these interviews within the piece. For the ambient sound composition I used Adobe Audition and GarageBand, combining synth instrumentals played by me along with sampled recordings of my grandma, tropical birds, and one of my dad’s favourite childhood songs “Vereda Tropical” played by Orquesta Seranata Tropical. This piece is not just about my grandmother’s story but about her everlasting impact on the Martinez family as a whole.
Title translation:
“The Martinez Family of The Modelo Neighbourhood”
Road To Light (Extended)
Film Score - 2024
This is a collaborative piece between me and Emilia Joan Tolnai who wrote and directed “Reflections”. I composed the music, titled “Road To Light - Extended Version” which scores this film using Ableton Live and Adobe Audition. Minutes 1:36-4:30 (aside from the voiceover) are an original song I composed on my own before production of the film began. For this part, I meshed sampled recordings from my everyday life including an ATM rebooting and a busker playing saxophone, with recordings of myself playing two analogue synthesizers (the Buchla Easel Command and Prophet-5.) “Road To Light” as a standalone piece was made for the hopeful days where you feel confident in public walking alone, the road you walk on being a metaphor for the beautiful and unpredictable life you lead.
The beginning and end of the score are additives I created under the directorial guidance of Emilia, sampling our own voices and recordings of rain taken on set.