They Whisper In Your Ear

This work has been composed for El Libro de los Huesos (The Book of Bones), a program designed by Bruno Lo Bianco and Oscar Albrieu Roca (founding members of the Argentine percussion group Tambor Fantasma). Accordingly, it is conceptually connected to the notions and musical representations of death and of the dead.

Premiered at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center in the city of Savannah, United States, on November 1, 2024, it was subsequently performed at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among other places.

Similarly to what happens with sounds in a musical work, when people die, they continue to exist only in our memory. And just as it often happens with music, as time goes by, our memory of the dead is subject to countless associations, to continuities, disruptions, and interruptions, which alter the way in which we continue to represent in our minds those we have lost. They Whisper in Your Ear builds on these concepts to put forward a musical journey in which an intimate gesture is transformed and expanded in time, in space, in its range of dynamics and frequencies, in its timbre, thus resulting in a sound construction that, like the memories of our dead, can sometimes be ephemeral or barely perceptible, it can be pleasant, it can also be bittersweet, painful, or even overwhelming, but it is certainly unpredictable and utterly inevitable.

Difficulty: Part 1: Demanding / Part 2: Very demanding / All other parts: Standard