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In Haikus del mar (Sea Haikus) (2010) for six percussionists, a French State commission for Les Percussions de Strasbourg, a polyphony is heard immediately which continuously superimposes macro and micro-temporal relations. The initial explosion of resonances and sound reflections, the image of a vast refracting plate, the sea, lit by the sun, seeks to create synaesthesia between the luminous reflections and the resonances of glockenspiels, vibraphones, bar-chimes, triangles, jingle bells, ocean drums, güiros and other instruments.

The work is borne on an immense network of principal times, their associated relative times connected by a system of metric modulations which, like time tunnels, take us from extremely slow temporal situations (where time stops, evoking a calm sea in which apparently nothing happens) to extremely intense, agitated and complex temporal states.

Of particular interest in this and subsequent works is the macro-articulation, created by the silence, which fragments the fractal elements. The constant tempo changes are a characteristic of my output in general, conceived among other things to modify the micro-textures of hundreds of resonant bar and metal particles, or the dry ones of woods and skins, producing what I call Metric Granulations. These sonorous situations, calculations and mathematical relations are simply a reflection of poetic images drawn from Japanese haikus about the sea, which help me to submerge myself in a sonic landscape hard to conceive in any other form, and which I emphasise with the movement in the acoustic space created by arranging the six players in a circular pattern. This is a discursive logic and a language on the border between science and poetry, synaesthesia as pointed out above that perfectly reflects my deepest personal and artistic concerns. Haikus del mar is dedicated to Les Percussions de Strasbourg –Keiko Nakamura, Claude Ferrier, François Papirer, Bernard Lesage, Olaf Tzschoppe, and Minh-Tam Mguyen– who premiered it in Montpellier (France) on 12 January 2013.

José Manuel López López

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from Horizonte ondulado, released November 26, 2017

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