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Germán Toro Pérez
Violine (Rulfo/ecos II)
UES104514-110
Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 12
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«Rulfo/voces I» is the first part of a cycle of five pieces for violin, viola, violoncello and electronics after the work of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo (1917–1986). His work, consisting of a novel and 17 short stories, depicts rural Mexico at the time of the Mexican Revolution as a world marked by hopelessness and solitude. His poetic language, rough, unadorned and of deep musicality is language of myth, language of remembrance.
The pieces were initially intended as studies on melodic writing in view of the later music theatre work «Journey to Comala». «Rulfo/ecos II» combines the fragmentary structure of the preceding pieces with composed echoes and other forms of resonance in the electronics. Here, the voice of Juan Rulfo himself reading his short story «No oyes ladrar los perros» («You Don't Hear the Dogs Barking») is triggered by the instrumental sound.
The piece was first performed by Trio EIS, Vienna at the Festival Wien Modern 2006 in the Ruprechtskirche: Ivana Pristašová, violine, Petra Ackermann, viola, Roland Schueler, violoncello and Germán Toro Pérez, electronics.
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Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 12