san(s)

Abstract

The title has two different readings – as the Chinese character 散, which can mean scatter, fragment, spreading, among various meanings; as well as sans in French, which means without.The former is related to the formal aspect of the piece, more specifically the deconstruction of the initial material into smaller units, the different treatments of these units, and various modes of interaction among them. The latter refers to the intention that the considerations during the compositional process are solely derived from the inherent characteristics of the musical material, instead of imposing an extramusical structure or system, such as theater, ritual, narratives, which were heavily explored in my previous works. Under the framework outlined by these two readings, I intend to achieve musical poetics while maintaining a structural coherence.