deícticos

(2024)

for bass flute, viola and percusion

duration: 9'

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I. partículas

II. switch

III. hoquetus

IV. 11Hz

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written for Ensamble Arthaus and dedicated to Daniel D’Adamo as part of the Atelier Arthaus 2024

Amalia Pérez, bass flute

Mariano Malamud, viola

Bruno Lo Bianco, percusion

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first performance: December 19, 2024, Arthaus Central, CABA

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Deictic: Grammatical element that performs a deixis (indication of a person, place or time, or of a linguistic expression by means of certain grammatical elements). - RAE.
A deictic is an element capable of indicating or pointing out the relative space or time in which the elements of discourse are situated, in relation to those who intervene in the communicative act. Pronouns such as this, that or that indicate degrees of closeness of what is indicated in relation to the listener and the speaker; today, yesterday or then do so in relation to time; our, mine or yours indicate possession, etc. The degree of definition or not of these elements puts into play their own identity, which depends on the reference used.
The poetics of deictics derives from the margins that result from the lack of definition of what is named, of what sounds, of what is heard. The deliberate search for the inexact copy, the doppelgänger, the masking, the estrangement of the known, the equivocation and the sound universe that potentially emerge from these figures.
From a technical perspective, the piece is a series of sound objects that form ad hoc timbral combinations, mounted on the temporary canvas as if they were small fleeting sound sculptures. The degree of permanence they experience traces the limit that defines their possible identity.