Diferencias Familiares Sobre Las Cuerdas

• 22-minute piece for solo steel-string acoustic guitar and electronics.
• Performed and edited by Ferran Fages.

Diferencias Familiares Sobre Las Cuerdas

• 22-minute piece for solo steel-string acoustic guitar and electronics.
• Performed and edited by Ferran Fages.


Familiar variations on the strings: pick, ebow, amplified slide… constantly migrating scordature… 12 sections of tablature on 6 pages of rice paper… Indian ink and silkscreen… 7 “improvisations” and 9 short tape sections… Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico, by 17th-century vihuela composer Alfonso Mudarra, mixed with fragments of an early recording by Delta Blues great John Lee Hooker… transducer on the guitar top… Ferran and I learning to write and read for each other… farewell Barcelona.

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