Scores by Alam Hernández

for piano solo - 2019

The very first score of Alam is an energetic piece based on the interval of 4ths.

The Toccata is deeply inspired by the driving force of progressive rock band Emerson Lake & Palmer.

The title of the piece represents the number 4 in binary system.

for piano and electronics - 2021

The first approximation of Alam to employing electronics in his music is a miniature 2-minute-long rhythmical piece.

115 Moscovium draws inspiration from the impetuous sound of piano concertos combining it with eerie synthesizer timbers.

As short as it is, the piece is highly demanding and is yet to be performed live.

for piano and string orchestra - 2022

Originally composed for Polaris Strings, ANTARES is a 20 minute long composition inspired on the serenity of the night sky.

ANTARES aims to create a peaceful atmosphere composed by ever flowing harmonies which gradually glide into each other.

for piano solo - 2021

Composed for the 20th birthday of Alam’s chrono-partner Katya Trejo, “Two Fantasies” is a dhyptic piece conformed by two pieces: “The Fire Fairy” and “The Water Wolf”.

Both movements are free form pieces which serve as etudes for improving speed and poly-rhythm on the instrument.

for symphony orchestra - 2023

The piece was part of the One Minute Symphony project organised by the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.

“8. Oxygen” is a miniature piece for orchestra inspired on how the atmosphere connects every living creature on the planet.

The musical texture of Oxygen resembles breathing. The density of the chords played by the strings and the winds represent the immeasurable multiplicity of human lives, ideas, feelings and experiences contained in every one of our breaths. Percussion connects it all and traces time, depicting the unflagging race of humankind into the future.

"8. Oxygen” was premiered by the Residentie Orkest Den Haag at the Conservatorium Zaal of the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague in The Netherlands. Feburary 17th, 2023.

for baritone, piano and electronics - 2023

"55. Caesium" is an emotional piece based on the poem "On Time" by the Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran (1883 -1931).

The title of the piece refers to the atomic element Caesium, a blue-colored metal used for calibrating atomic clocks.

"55. Caesium" was premiered at the VoCo project at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague, Netherlands. Performed by
Lars Klamer and Alam Hernández on piano. 20th of April, 2023.

Live Performance

for piano and percussion - 2021

A big-scale work inspired on the Greek myth of The Pleiades.

The movements of the piece have unique characters and represent the distinct personalities of each of the Seven Sisters.

The 6th movement of Pleias, ΠI. Μερόπη (Merope), is a precise representation of the night sky during the winter solstice of 2019. Every single dot on the score is a star, the largest dots depict the Sun and the Moon.

Pleias was winner of the 2nd place of the international composition competition of the Percussive Arts Society in 2021.

Pleias was premiered at the Conservatorium Zaal of the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague, in The Netherlands by percussionist Porter Ellerman and pianist Rui Braga Simoes. November 21st, 2022.

Score
Live performance

for orchestra and jazz band - 2023

"Vallarta" is a light-hearted piece deeply influenced by the music of Gino Vanelli and Pat Metheny.

“This composition aims to encapsule the immeasurable sensation of peace that the ocean and the sounds of jazz-fusion kindle on me, and it is of course the means I have for sharing all of this with you.

Vallarta is paradise, love, joy and purity. Vallarta is excitement, light, water and sun. In Vallarta I have found the way to understand my true nature and hence, aim to understand everybody else.”

for piano, cello, electronics and video - 2023

On December 2023, Alam was commissioned to compose a piece for the “Night of the Drinking Water” event in which the Dutch company VEWIN, celebrated the work of their chairman Peter van der Velden.

The piece “Oxidane”, is a piece multimedia piece for piano, violoncello and video based on the vibrational patterns of the water when excited on a surface, a visual technique known as Cymatics.

The piece was premiered at the Diligentia Theater, in The Hague, The Netherlands, performed by cellist Alfian Emir Adytia and the composer himself. 12th of December, 2023.

Article of the Event

for ensemble, mixed voices and electronics - 2024

The fusion opera NEED FOR SING is an experimental work inspired on the loss of identity caused by the overflow of information of our times.

The Mentor, the FreeXter, the Herald, the Ally and the Hero have to solve the ultimate quantum equation in order to break the code, get out of the loop and set themselves free. “Freedom from capitalism” is the place where they are actually longing for.

The work was premiered at the National Opera and Ballet in Amsterdam during the Opera Forward Festival 2024. March 8th, 2024.

Full Performance

for ensemble, electronics and video - 2023

Written for Ensemble Klang, Nitrogen is a daring experimental piece inspired by the music of Louis Andriessen and American rock band NERVE.

The piece is a collage of the topics of super-permutations, fractal structures, and the Nitrogen crisis of The Netherlands.

“7. Nitrogen” was premiered at the Korzo Theater in The Hague, Netherlands by Ensemble Klang, starring Tehada as The Nitrogen Witch. 10th of May 2024.

Special thanks to my friends Jacob, Tehada and Jurijn for their help and participation in the project.

Full Perfomance

for ensemble and electronics - 2024

“3. Lithium” addresses the problematics of the excessive publicity of our times. The title of the piece refers to the chemical element Lithium, the main component used for rechargeable batteries for smartphones and laptops, the devices we use for both working and entertainment.

Lithium was premiered at the Gallery Lukisan in Bergen Op Zoom, The Netherlands by the ADS e ARTS ensemble. 15th of March, 2024.

Live performance

for piano and percussion - 2025

Written for the Duo Van Raat Napolov, "The Fox and the Pheasant" is a miniature piece in Boogie Woogie style which tells the story of a Fox and a Pheasant who were friends until the Fox gets hungry... really hungry.

The piece is inspired on the art piece "You Shouldn't Have Forgotten the Title" by the German artist Daniel Richter.

"The Fox and the Pheasant" was premiered by Konstantyn Napolov and Raplh Van Raat at De Duif in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on April 11th, 2025.

You Shouldn't Have Forgotten the Title

for loudspeakers and headphones - 2025

This work in progress is s a spatial-audio installation composition for speakers and headphones inspired by the non-simultaneity principle of the special theory of relativity. The title of the piece refers to the chemical element Neon, number 10 in the periodic table.

This composition is the outcome of my research paper The Sound Horizon: Multilayered Composition for Headphones and Speakers, an investigation which delves into the employment of headphones as a compositional and performative tool in combination with speakers. 

for ensemble, electronics and multimedia - 2025

Written for the Residentie Ensemble, 43. Technetium* is an ever “improving” composition inspired by the AI culture in which we live today. We are all asking Artificial Intelligence to do this and that, but what if we ask our Natural Stupidity instead?

Stupidity here is addressed as a valuable resource of the human mind, for the only thing that machines will always lack is a sense of humor.

Moreover, machines learn and perform in an absolutely literal way, while we humans will inevitably spice up the game with our ideas, beliefs, biases, misses, judgments, and fears. Perhaps this is why AI art will always differ from human art.