Resonare Fibris

The Resonare Fibris project arises from the need to confront times, that is, to put them in dialogue and submit them to a game of mirrors. Superposition and mixture, contraposition, dissolution, decontextualisation, deconstruction… ways of proposing an approach to music that goes beyond proposing a merely contemplative listening to become a challenge: that of achieving an active listening.

The meeting and dialogue with the pianist Mario Prisuelos, the poet Pilar Martín Gila and myself, gave shape to a proposal where music and poetry share a common point: the reinterpretation of a past time, that of the Spanish Renaissance. This dialogue between the ancient and the present stems from essential voices: among others, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales or Sebastián de Vivanco. The work is written for piano and electronics, where the latter is conceived as a spatial extension of the instrument.

In parallel to the musical part, the poet Pilar Martín Gila elaborated a series of texts with a similar procedure of transference to a current poetics. Based on Jorge Manrique and the theme of death, from the Coplas por la muerte de su padre (four-line stanza), these poems appear in the two interludes contained in the cycle.

This recording is part of a concept of extension and proliferation, conceived as a work-in-progress, something that has been reflected in the various performances that have taken place in concerts and festivals, through a site-specific approach. Thus, the album proposes an essential form of listening: the private and intimate, which is produced from these criteria of openness that manages the cycle.

– Sergio Blardony, Composer

Mario Prisuelos, Piano
Pilar Martín Gila, Narration & Poetry