Shrouded Mirrors (1988)
(for guitar solo)

First performance: May 1988, Magnus Andersson, Busto Arsizio (Italy), commissioned by Curo Ltd (Sweden)

As a child, I felt before large mirrors that same horror of a spectral duplication or multiplication of reality. Their infallible and continuous functionings, their pursuit of my actions, their cosmic pantomime, were uncanny then, whenever it began to grow dark.

Jorge Luis Borges
“Los espejos velados” (“Shrouded Mirrors”)
from the collection El hacedor (Dreamtigers)
Dreamtigers, Austin (University of Texas Press): 1964, New York (Dutton): 1970.

Shrouded Mirrors was commissioned by Magnus Andersson with funds provided by Curo Ltd., Stockholm. The first performance was given on 27 May 1988 in Busto Arsizio near Milan.