J. Baixas (1996) és un compositor resident a Barcelona.
"[T]ot text es construeix com un mosaic de citacions, tot text és absorció i transformció d'un altre text."
Julia Kristeva
J. Baixas (1996) és un compositor resident a Barcelona.
"[T]ot text es construeix com un mosaic de citacions, tot text és absorció i transformció d'un altre text."
ca. 12’
The material of the soloist part comes entirely, and without any kind of processing, from Karol Szymanowski’s solo piano piece Métopes, Op. 29 (in the manner of an objet trouvé). To decide exactly which bars of Szymanowski end up in my piece, the original score has been stained with coffee1 in a more or less random way (see Fig. 1): the notes not affected by the coffee constitute the soloist part unaltered, whereas the stained regions are eliminated, and, in any case, might have implications —or not (in fact, preferably not)— on the rest of the ensemble.
Therefore, this piece presents itself as a palimpsest or as a reconstruction of a forced ruin. (The idea of the ruin is akin to the Greek theme of Syzmanowski’s Métopes: three images from the Odyssey.)
Alternative titles are offered for the three movements: I. Lotòfags, II. Escil·la i Caribdis and for the inexistent third, III. Penèlope.
1 Coffee for practical reasons: it allows us to see what is stained in case it’s found to be necessary, and was more easily available the other considered liquids: watercolors, Indian ink, blood.
Estrenada el 6 de juny de 2023 per Jordi Masó (piano), Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo (direcció), l’ensemble BCN216 i alumnes de l’ESMUC at L'Auditori de Barcelona. [Més detalls a Soundcloud.]
Instrumentació:
flauta (també piccolo i flauta baixa) - oboè - clarinet en si♭ (també clarinet contrabaix en si♭) - saxofon tenor - fagot
trompa en fa - trompeta en do - trombó
percussió - guitarra clàssica - arpa
piano
2 violins - viola - cello - contrabaix
Bibliografia:
Szymanowski, K. (1922). Métopes: Trois poèmes pour piano, Op. 29. Universal Edition.