En la impenetrable maraña de lo no nombrado

For 24 voices (2010)
Commissioned by the SWR
Hans Peter Jahn
For the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
for Walter Zimmermann

Two or three things collaborated in the existence of this absented music. A Zen garden motivated
its possibility. It was concrete and clear. Its layout of rocks and sand suggested materials and
form.

While composing, materials and form went through a process of transformation arriving to a state
of disturbing immateriality. It opened the space to a calm empty mind sailing in the winds of
uncertainty. Some objects came together and started to relate to each other not too different from
the way rocks are related to sand. I had forgotten the Zen garden just to later realize that I was all
the time "looking" at it.

While composing, the idea of Latin America randomly and persistently came to my mind. As
usual, some places emerged, some people, some music, and the past. Surrounded by silence and
snow I was frequently brought back into the present.

The poetry of Roberto Juarroz was a bright shadow walking with my steps. The title of this work
is a line from his Poesía vertical.