voice

for female choir (SMA) and glass containers
commissioned by Zembla Music and https://dutchchoirmusicnow.nl/
Anatomy of a jar explores the sound quality of discarded objects, making music with bottles and jars literally rescued from the glass container. These objects refer clearly to a known and familiar world, that through the composition process acquires an abstract and a poetic condition. This piece explores the subtleties of sound, both in the choir and in the objects. These sounds free themselves from their sources, having their own musical value independently of coming from the vocal tradition or the trash can.
Anatomy of a jar makes chamber music with objects converting them into refined musical instruments. Objects are now empowered on stage, and their sounds are written in a music score, acquiring thanks to the music notation “eternal life.” The act of re-appropriation is not related to the idea of nostalgia but to resistance and change.

1. Audio piece

2. Audio guides for practicing:
soprano
mezzo
alto

3. Video props instructions

4. Cd release: Sounds of absence

Related works:

• Cuarteto (1996)
• Las ciudades y los signos (SATB)
• Introducción a la zoología fantástica (children´s choir)
• Anthropology of trash (2020)