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
Katsushika Hokusai’s Li Bai, ca. 1835. Woodblock print.

2019
ca. 2’
今三盃
宵つに
かの
な名
一を
一飲
一む    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’