Paraules

Featuring

Noè Rodrigo Gisbert
Iannis Xenakis
Salvatore Sciarrino
Edison Denisov
Silvia Borzelli
Polo Vallejo

Bruno Mantovani
Jesús Torres

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Iannis Xenakis, a Greek-French composer, believed that "the timbre only serves to clarify the rhythmic structures," considering the poetic word a color within these structures.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada, Spain, between October 16th and 18th, 2022.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Salvatore Sciarrino, a Sicilian composer, often makes instruments "sing" in his works, and in Il legno e la parola, he explores whether a wooden percussion instrument can speak, shout, moan, or murmur.

Compositional Technique

Jesús Torres, a composer from Zaragoza, incorporates unusual vibraphone techniques in his work Tiento, such as keeping the pedal always pressed, using contrapuntal textures in pianissimo, and muting pitches with drumsticks to create subtle harmonic transformations.

Compositional Technique

Iannis Xenakis's Psappha uses a unique graphic score divided into 2,397 fragments, organized by a grid system that relates horizontal and vertical lines to define rhythmic cells.

Composer Biography

Polo Vallejo, a Spanish composer and ethnomusicologist, has been studying the vocal polyphony of the Wagogo people in Tanzania since the 1980s, a culture that considers music "the soul of an entire community."