Portfolio of Work
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Iowa City Goat Club - Nepantla (Demo)
June 2021
This is a working demo for a song called Nepantla. All of the parts were written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Jorge Palacios Jr (performing as Iowa City Goat Club) using Ableton Live. There's some Jazzmasters and a Bass VI being played through a Boss Katana 50 (mk I) directly in, and some vocals recorded through an AKG Perception 200 into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. The drums were programed using a kit in Ableton, and all was mixed using (mostly) stock plugins. It is far from done but that's okay.
Bad Jokes and Semi-Wise Cracks with Luke and Jorge
Ongoing since March 2021
Jorge cohosts, edits, and produces a comedy podcast with Luke Heter. It's real good, please listen to it.
Jazztok Funk Rick Roll
April 2021
It's a tiktok collaboration with a bunch of other musicians on the tiktok channel names Jazztok. I sang as part of a funk version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." I even dressed the part.
"The Death of Miguel Pro"
April 2017
In partial fulfillment for the course, "Orchestration, Arranging, and Conducting," this piece was written/arranged and conducted by Jorge Palacios Jr. It was performed alongside Dr. R. Andrew Lee (piano), Kaden Hurst (mandolin), Frederika Gilbert (flute), Dr. Loretta Notareschi (violin), and Dr. Charles Lee (cello).
The piece is actually composed of three different ideas, juxtaposed together, with several of the three melodies interacting with each other. The first is an original piece written in the style of the Mexican corrido, entitled, "El Corrido de Miguel Pro." Next was an interpretation of the Catholic chant melody known as the Dies Irae. The last portion a version of Dan Schutte's, "Glory in the Cross."
The piece was thought up as a cinematographic score to underline the death scene of Bl. Miguel Pro, SJ. Miguel Pro was a 20th century Mexican Jesuit and martyr who was executed by the Mexican government under trumped up charges in a time where Catholicism and public and private worship were essentially outlawed.
The video is a splice of two separate recordings of two different performances which happened minutes of each other on the same stage.
March 7, 2017
Originally published by the Ignatian Solidarity Network as a part of a Lenten reflection series titled "Rise Up: A Lenten Call to Solidarity," the poem is a re-understanding of the Lord's prayer, contextualized by the Immigrant who is saying the prayer. It follows:
Our Father who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name
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Our Father, Father to all the peoples of the Earth, to the most destitute and the most powerful,
Father to those who condemn us and those who welcome us,
Father who protects us, who gives us life and strength to leave the only place we know as home,
may your name be always cherished by our lips, chapped and broken as they may be.
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thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
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Though we do not feign to understand your will, we pray that it may be done.
Though we do not pretend to know what this new land holds for us, we pray that it may begin to look like home.
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on earth as it is in heaven
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May our outlook of heaven begin to take form here on earth,
and that our material poverty and struggle may begin to dissipate, making room for our heavenly home.
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Give us this day our daily bread;
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You, Father, are the source that provides for us, completely.
We rely on you, our rock and our salvation, for hope and for our physical needs.
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and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us
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Many will despise us for the languages we speak, for the color of our skin, and for the lands from which we come.
They will call us trespassers.
Forgive us for seeking worlds for ourselves, as we forgive those who despise us.
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and lead us not into temptation
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Do not let us forget who we are, where we come from, and how we got here.
Do not let us, Lord, forget you.
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but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
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