Componiendo en nuevos espacios sinestésicos e interdisciplinarios. Libro de las estancias como proyecto musical, arquitectónico, visual e instalativo

Abstract

Libro de las estancias is a piece written in response to a joint commission from the Granada International Music and Dance Festival and the Valencia Institute of Music. The work embodies a pilgrimage through seven abodes, seven time-spaces that stake out an itinerary through poetic-sonorous images ranging from the desert to writing (in remembrance of Edmon Jabès), and from rooms fraught by concepts such as time or the labyrinth to others laden with symbolic materials linked to the work’s content, such as lead, stone and alabaster. The work is a poetic reflection on sound, space, light and the voice. It is a great palimpsest composed as a meditation on a part of Spain’s history that goes beyond the merely sociological or political reality of the period ushered in by the expulsion of the Moriscos (Moorish converts) after the 1609 decree. This religious and political controversy, with its multifaceted development over a long period of rapprochements and misunderstandings, is the context that partly nourishes this work. However, the scenic and musical proposal and its own dramaturgy go beyond this context.