SAMPLE 1. ORNITOGRAPHIES. Work in progress for JACK Quartet inspired by the photographs of Xavi Bou. (2021)
“I was not interested in making a descriptive picture of the position of the bird´s body in each point. I wanted to lose completely the bird´s shape leaving just its trayectory...I don´t do pictures of birds, I do pictures of the movement of birds.”
Photo by Xavi Bou
Sketch 1. This sketch was meant to have a diffuse progression of the viola expanding and contracting its spectral range while changing gradually its timbral color leaving a trayectory trail with delays.
Sketch 2. This Quartet excerpt is about different approaches to diffusing a single melodic idea by orchestrating it with the quartet thinking of how it would sound if some parts of a single instrument were frozen for some time. Starting with the most diffused texture, then less diffuse repetitions.
Sketch 3. Another texture approach with a more granular and chaotic texture. The audio is a MIDI mockup.