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El món d'Ulisses
Where it’s coming from.
The production of this CD represents the culmination of a creative
process that synthesizes Manel Ribera’s compositions
over recent years. The journey allows us to pursue some of the
ideas around which the composer articulates his discourse:
knowledge of musical tradition and a craftsman’s working of
sound material.
An exhaustive analysis of the repertoire, from Italian baroque
to the spectral paradigm or the canon of the repertoire
to the impact of noisism, serves as reference point from
which he can assume his own place on the landscape of composition,
and insert himself in that history. This positioning is
expressed through the selection and use of primary material.
But we must not confuse content and form. It is not about borrowing
pre-existing material, but about being conscious you
can become aware who used it and how. This duality, in the
play between irony and knowledge, implies listening at two
levels. His music can be understood from what is explicit or
implicit, from what it is or where it’s coming from. Composition
becomes a way of generating knowledge.
The other aspect that must be stressed is the deliberate
search of the detail. Nothing is casual nor without cause nor
probabilistic nor indeterminate. The global is subjected to the
discrete. The essential, the basic is in the detail of present.
Thus Ribera is included in the stream of craft composers,
interested in moulding and polishing of raw material. In this
process of distillation another notable aspect is manifested.
The composer acts parting from the interpretative praxis,
searching to join these two dominions, opposed by recent history,
that are composition and playing. The composition parting
from the playing.
Bienvenido Arana Rodríguez, musicologist |
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11/07/2009
11th of July.Smash Ensemble plays Four Crosswords in Finland.
Viitasaari - Finland |
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24/10/2009
Brossa String Quartet-24th October at Auditori Municipal of Terrassa...
Terrassa - Spain |
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