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La madre parada (2016)
Contrabass clarinet & electronics. Poem by Pilar Martín Gila.
| Instrumentation: | contrabass clarinet | electronics [2 chn.] |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Duration: | 9'08" |
| Texts: | Poetic text by Pilar Martín Gila (from the book La cerillera). |
| Commission: | Santiago Martínez Abad. |
| World premiere: | Punto de Encuentro Festival 2016, CSM Málaga, Concert hall, 11/26/2016. Santiago Martínez Abad (contrabass cl.). |
| Other performances: | MDW Festsaal, Viena, Austria, 4/1/2019. Matej Bunderla (baritone saxophone). Peter Venus (electronics). kultum, ImCubus, Graz, Austria, 4/3/2019. Same performers. |
| Score: | PDF (author edition). |
| Recordings: | Baritone sax version: New music for saxophone. David Hernando Vítores. Amazon, Spotify, Deezer. |
| Comment: | La madre parada explores pain, the pain of the loss of a loved one . In particular, I am interested in the contrast between two types of pain, which sometimes overlap and at other times occur separately: torn pain (corporeal, carnal, entrained, etc.) and balsamic pain -and it could be said, in some way, pleasant, but always sad- that the memory of the loved one leaves, in the sweetest memories. The poem by Pilar Martín Gila acts as a way of conducting the work, a poetic "guide" that is broken, and which suggests to me both the abrupt disappearance of the loved one and the abyss of silence that opens with his absence; and I also think I see in this poem, dimly, that form of balsamic pain to which I alluded earlier. The work with the double bass clarinet has allowed me a wide spectrum of translation from the conceptual to the sonorous. From the tear to the sweetest sounds, through the compressed sound of the interior of the tube without a mouthpiece, the instrument adapts very interestingly to the work that developed in this study. |
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