Vols brisés (2024)

This new work arises from the need to address a significant contemporary challenge: the urgency of developing tools, imagery, and languages able of questioning our relationship with an increasingly threatened environment.

In this era of widespread ecocide, how can we embody the growing silence and disappearing sounds that once inhabited natural landscapes? What kind of poetic-musical language can be crafted when we contemplate the sounds, cries, calls, signals, or silences that come from listening to beings other than humans?

This work aims to evoke the concept of ritual and will be divided into several movements of contrasting character. The cello will be the central element, establishing a musical, poetic and symbolic dialogue with the choir. The compositional approach seeks to give the cello an archaic allure. The instrument's versatility will be explored by developing its wide variety of expressive resources, ranging from melodic constructions that take advantage of its great expressiveness to multiple gestures and timbral colours related to natural soundscapes. The choir, likewise, will move from the recreation and reinterpretation of wild environments to performing polyphonic passages infused with an ancient aesthetic, possibly incorporating 16th-century polyphony.