Praised by the New York Times as “a gifted Brazilian-American modernist” whose works are “sensational,” “exuberant,” “vivid,’ “brilliantly realized,” “excellent,” “technically formidable and wildly varied,” and possess “voluptuous, elemental lyricism,” Felipe Lara (b.1979) engages in producing unique musical contexts by means of (re)interpreting and translating acoustical and extra-musical properties of familiar source sonorities into project-specific forces. His