JAUME BAIXAS
J. Baixas (1996) is a composer based in Barcelona.

"[A]ny text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another."
Julia Kristeva
Katsushika Hokusai’s Li Bai, ca. 1835. Woodblock print.
HAIKU
Op. 2

今三盃
宵つに
かの
な名


む    Matsuo Bashō

sakazuki ni           with the wine cup
mitsu no na wo nomu   I drink three names
koyoi kana            this evening

The three names Li Bai is drinking are: himself - his shadow cast by the moonlight - his reflection on the sake surface

Bibliography:
Bashō, M. (2016). Leve presencia (F. Rodríguez-Izquierdo y Gavala, Trad.). Satori Ediciones.


for soprano

2019
ca. 2’