Lo inaudible
Loadbang with funds provided by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2024
9th of March 2025 at Opera America New York city. With Loadbang:Adrian Sandi, bass clarinet; Andy Kozar, trumpet; Ty Bouque, baritone; William Lang, trombone
Lo inaudible is a setting of the poem of the same title by the Cuban José Lezama Lima.
The request of the ensemble Loadbang to write a new work for them came for the second time in 2023 and on this occasion, I took up the challenge of setting a poem which played with the idea of what cannot be heard as a counterpart to a lineup of instruments who can mostly play very loud.
The metaphor is also descriptive of what I feel one of my tasks as a composer is: to make audible that which cannot be heard.
As in most of my settings the phonetics of the Spanish language is also an inspiration to find ways to orchestrate and thus bring to the foreground that which is intrinsic in the language.
Lo inaudible was commission by Loadbang with funds provided by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and completed in 2024.