Etkin's music is deeply influenced by the Latin American landscape, including its plateaus, mountains, jungles, open fields, wind, and silence, as well as the coexistence of tiny and vast phenomena.
Recording & Production
This album features seven first recordings of works by Mariano Etkin, showcasing his late chamber music.
Performer Biography
Ensemble Aventure, founded in 1986 in Freiburg, is one of Europe's oldest and most prominent ensembles for new music, known for commissioning new works and promoting politically persecuted composers.
Compositional Technique
Mariano Etkin's musical language often features unconventional instrumentations, extreme registers, dynamics, and densities, creating a blend of intensity and fragility.
Composer Biography
Mariano Etkin, an Argentinian composer, teacher, and thinker, significantly contributed to establishing a specific Latin American musical identity.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mariano Etkin's music is characterized by a celebration of the sensuous nature of sounds and human senses as a source of knowledge, using few 'sound objects' that unfold in pain and beauty.
Composer Biography
Mariano Etkin studied with renowned composers like Olivier Messiaen, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, and Earle Brown at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires.
