They Whisper In Your Ear

For 7 percussionists (alt. version for 3 percussionists available)
2024
18’

Written for Bruno Lo Bianco and Oscar Albrieu Roca (Tambor Fantasma)

First performance on November 1, 2024 (Savannah, GA)  by Burno Lo Bianco, Oscar Albrieu Roca, and members of the Georgia Southern Percussion Ensemble (directed by Matt Fallin)

Other notable performances: November 2024 (Teatro Colón – Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Notes

Similarly to what happens with sounds in a musical work, when people die, they continue to exist but 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.