Program notes:
To Augusta Read Thomas
The unexpected commission of this piece has been a breach in the continuity of the mutating sound emerging in my last works. The unusual ratio between the number of players and its total duration has also been a challenge. This fragment operates as an introspective tool, recalling the instrumental means of my recent works and their obsolescence. The composer becomes a funambulist in search for an improbable balance, and his tightrope the metaphor of the malfunction of an instrumental and temporal set. Signals with elusive meaning, familiar figures unable to remain still, transient rhythms chaining the continuity of an uncomfortable sound, give shape to this inner listening impossible to be grasped. The exhaustion of the effort to hear the inner vibration of the sound in us reminds us of Sloterdijk: the thought rip
Ramon Lazkano's piece A Glitch at the Edge premiered with the Grossman Ensemble on September 30, 2023.