Ciudades del Porvenir consists of two settings of poetry by the young Mexican poet Yaxkin Melchy. I was immediately drawn to Melchy’s whimsical, almost surrealistic use of language—a style that balances sharp, surface-level contrasts with a deeply moving, human core.

The two songs function as foils to one another, exploring the intersection of the personal and the prophetic:

El Corazón Humano (The Human Heart)

The darker, more assertive sibling of the pair. This movement captures the "loud," visceral reality of human emotion, using sharp rhythmic profiles and dense textures to echo the intensity of Melchy’s imagery.

Ciudades del Porvenir (Cities from a Future to Come)

A quiet and expansive contrast to the first song. Here, the music opens up into a more luminous and visionary space, reflecting on the possibilities of a future world with a sense of wonder and stillness.

Throughout the cycle, the music seeks to mirror Melchy's unique poetic voice—where the strange and the surreal are not used for their own sake, but rather to reveal the enduring "human heart" at the center of a changing world.