Solid, enclosed [I]

• Year of composition: 2022

• Instrumentation: solo violin

• Duration: 4' approx.

• Premiere: 15th October 2022 at ESMUC in Barcelona (ES) by Biliana Voutchkova for Festival Mixtur 2022

• Program notes:

« […] an inviolable and almost incomprehensible thing that makes me feel as if time were solid and enclosed, and could be stopped and contemplated... »

Geneva, June 2022

"Solid, enclosed" focuses on singularity: is it possible to compress time and stop it? The "temporal mass" is here represented by the opacity of the violin, which appears pressed in timbre and gestures almost as if to express a crushed suffering – rebellious in the desire to free itself.

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