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Ekphrasis (2001) for marimba, dedicated to the composer Manel Rodeiro, was commissioned by the Laxeiro Foundation in Vigo for the First Enrique X. Macías Contemporary Music Memorial, and was premiered in November 2001 in Vigo by Miquel Bernat.

In the poetry of Guillermo Carnero, critical self-awareness of language is projected initially in the non-conformist posture of an onlooker who questions the representative value of visual art works. Ekphrasis has been referred to in connection with Carrero’s first poems, abounding as they do in a minute description of artistic objects and interiors, although in reality their predominantly visual nature is of far greater scope. Thus ékphrasis is limited to presenting approvingly the illusory effects of the art work described: in ékphrasis, the text underlines the stylisation whereby the image, in attaining a serene balance between movement and form, comes to appear greater than life itself. The equivalent in music would be, in Gérard Grisey’s words, the difference between the map and the territory: the score and the sound. Singular in this work for solo marimba is the joining of the technique used in African Winds, spatialising the timbre by points or segments –here closer together because only a solo instrument is involved– and a wish to erase profiles as if in a sonic watercolour, leading largely to the elimination of articulations in certain parts of the work. The listener floats on occasions in an enveloping sound cloud, in reality a spatialised timbre devoid of precise outlines, and at other times, the articulations make themselves present in gestures covering the marimba’s entire register but never settling in fixed form.

José Manuel López López

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from Horizonte ondulado, released November 26, 2017

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