Litmus (2023)

World premiere: 27 June 2023, ZiMMT – Zentrum für immersive Medienkunst, Musik und Technologie, Leipzig, Germany.
A collaborative project between the HMT Leipzig and ZiMMT, developed under the direction of Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker.

duration: ca. 11′

instrumentation: 32-channel spatialized sound

Program note
From a condensation, the material unfolds dense and slowly, and with defined trajectories. When they intersect, as a consequence of this interaction, they fracture, evoking reminiscences as vague echoes and projecting into the future with intense anticipations.

The translation of “litmus effect” in Spanish, “efecto tornasol”, refers to the multicolored iridescence that flashes as a result of the exposure of defined materials to light, or when viewed from different angles. At the same time, the “litmus effect” implies showing the level of acidity of a material (so to say, the ability to reveal the true nature of something). Both meanings refer, respectively, to both the composition itself and the compositional approach.
The material of this work comes from a solo viola work composed during the pandemic, that recently spoke to me again.

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