Memoria/Olvido

A series of soundscapes based on studies on the relationship between time, space, light, and perspective with memory.

The first album showing results from this experiment features 3 different trios following the same set of "rules" for the repertoire and sharing Lautaro Mantilla on guitar. The album will be released in Spring 2023.

Video: Por la ventana/ Out the window - Structured Improvisation based on the concept of memory as a window. Throughout its three movements, it exposes three different angles, or perspectives, over the same story from the past. Performed in the Composer's series curated by John Mallia at New England Conservatory (Timecode 16:15)

Boston, MA April 2022

Cretella- Mantilla

This collaboration started in 2009. Spastic duos for guitar. Like eating way too much sugary cereal (with those fake marshmallows) on not nearly enough sleep. The first album as a duo will be out in Spring 2023.

Video: Chris Cretella and Lautaro Mantilla - guitar duo - live at Orchard in New Haven

New Haven, CT 2018

Non-Event

In 2020, Mantilla started his collaboration with Non-Event, a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of experimental, abstract, improvised, and adventurous music from New England and around the world.

Video: Non-Event at Home

Multi-media improvisation in an abandoned Waltham apartment during the pandemic lockdown. 

Lautaro Mantilla - guitar, radio and noise generators

Grace Drinkwater - Video

Waltham, MA 2020

Cordes/ Fordyce/ MAntilla

This work will be released in November 2024

For over a decade, this trio has explored the lines between free improvisation and experimental composition.

David Cordes - bass

Andy Fordyce - drums

Lautaro Mantilla - guitar