Cuerdas del destino

Cuerdas del destino is Paredes’s second string quartet, following Uy u T’an (‘Listen how they talk’, 1998). Where in that earlier work she mobilized the instruments as characters in a play, this time they are conjoined, strung together, moving through phases that are quite different from one another and yet linked, each emerging from the last, until the end, as if indeed the music were pulled, pulling itself, through its attachment to ‘strings of destiny’.

– Paul Griffiths