Germán Toro Pérez
Rulfo/ecos I
Duration: 10'
Solos:
violoncello
Rulfo/ecos I
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Germán Toro Pérez
Rulfo/ecos I
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Orchestration: für Violoncello und Elektronik
Type: Noten
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Work introduction
«Rulfo/ecos I» is part of a cycle of five pieces for violin, viola, violoncello and electronics after the work of 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 rough, unadorned poetic language, deep rooted in his culture, is language of myth, language of remembrance.
The pieces were initially intended as studies on melodic writing for the later music theatre work «Journey to Comala» (2017). In the case of «Rulfo/ecos I» descending sequences based on very high natural harmonics are captured and overlapped by the electronics and transformed in slowly changing harmonic fields. The descending movement in Rulfo’s novel «Pedro Páramo» can be seen as a fundamental motivic element related to a change of state, a border crossing approaching an endpoint. This point, at the same time vintage and vanishing point, is in Rulfo’s fictional space always death.
What is necessary to perform this work?
Equipment:
Computer with 8-channel sound interface and software Max
Midi controller (8 fader)
Mixing desk: 2 in/7 out
7 loudspeakers: LS1, LS2 on the ground, LS3–7 on stands
1 condenser cardioid microphone
1 contact microphone
The electronics consists of a patch for the software Max and will be provided on request by the composer: [email protected]
See the document "Rulfo_ecos_I_Technical_Rider_2022.pdf" for performance instructions and further information about the software.