What is EMENY?
eMpTy Music Edition NY is a music publishing house dedicated to the works of Argentine, New York-based composer Marcelo Toledo. All scores are original manuscripts, with few works digitally transcribed. The catalog includes 40 works for solo instruments, duos, trios, quartets, quintets, septets, nonets, and ensembles ranging from 10 to 24 musicians. There are also vocal works and a chamber opera for 10 musicians and 6 singers. All works have been premiered or performed at contemporary music festivals in Europe, United States, Asia and South America.
We hope this publishing initiative inspires others to create composer collectives to expose the contemporary music of Latin America to the world.
About Marcelo Toledo
Toledo’s work explores the peripheries of sound and the possibilities of musical representation beyond conventional notation. At the center of his practice is a productive friction between imagination and notation: between what can be imagined, what the body can generate, what an instrument can resist or reveal, and what writing can bring into existence. Rather than treating notation as the representation of a pre-existing musical idea, Toledo approaches writing as an interactive field of discovery, where gesture, physical resistance, sound, and graphic thought participate in the emergence of the work.
This approach has led him to develop a distinctive visual language in which constellations, fields, lines, curves, densities, and geometric trajectories operate as compositional forces rather than illustrations of sound. His scores propose shifting relationships between body, instrument, notation, and listening, opening musical form to temporalities that arise from the materials themselves rather than from a predetermined temporal framework.
His music has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia by ensembles such as Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, SWR Vokalensemble, Neue Vocalsolisten, Speculum Musicae, Continuum, and CEPROMUSIC. In 2026, Toledo received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. He is also the director and editor of Fuentes Primarias, a journal of new music of the Americas.
Fluido Oblicuo I, page 49 of Luminous Emptiness