Mauricio Sotelo – ’Como llora el agua…’

Mauricio Sotelo – ’Como llora el agua…’ played by Juan Manuel CAÑIZARES Audio-score Score by Universal Edition Vienna – UE 33968 CD by KAIROS-MUSIC / MAURICIO SOTELO: Wall of Light Composers comment: “Since I dreamed (literally) of music when I was a child, I was obliged to take up the guitar – to embrace its body, to try to turn the music I heard in my head at night into real sounds. By contrast, my concern today with ’Como llora el agua’ is to invent a new instrument, in order to learn anew how to play it, as Helmut Lachenmann says. The work’s compositional progress began with the search for a scordatura, a modified tuning which deviates from the usual sonic world and renders the composition’s harmonic centre (C, G, D, G#, B, D#) – as it were, a gravitational harmonic axis or a “solar chord,” as I like to