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Portrait de Rita - for plucked strings trio

by Tomas Bordalejo

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For this plucked string trio I imagined a dialogue between the guitar, an instrument that is familiar to me but that I have paradoxically used little in my previous pieces, and the mandolin, whose Mediterranean sound evokes a poetry from elsewhere, from another time.
Like a conversation between three people who have just met and are beginning to talk shyly, I have conceived a series of soft, hybrid sounds that travel from one instrument to the other, in a mixture of percussion (during the attack), colour (natural harmonics) and resonance.
During the whole of the first part, the dialogue settles into a peaceful atmosphere where time seems to be in slow motion; the three instruments take the floor, one after the other. The mechanics of the musical phrase will gradually fall into place, allowing me to develop linearity in time. In the central part of the piece, the three instruments play in unison and come together in the same discourse.
The mandolin then asserts itself in a solo role and is accompanied by the broken harmonies of the guitars.

Pour ce trio de cordes pincées j’ai imaginé un dialogue entre la guitare, instrument qui m’est familier mais que je n’ai paradoxalement que peu utilisé dans mes pièces précédentes, et la mandoline dont la sonorité
méditerranéenne m’évoque une poésie venue d’ailleurs, d’un autre temps.
A la façon d’une conversation entre trois personnes qui viennent de se rencontrer et commencent à se parler en toute timidité, j’ai conçu une suite de sons doux et hybrides qui voyagent d’un instrument à l’autre, dans un mélange de percussion (lors de l’attaque), de couleur (harmoniques naturelles) et de résonance.
Lors de toute la première partie, le dialogue s’installe dans une atmosphère paisible où le temps semble être au ralenti ; les trois instruments prennent la parole, se tuilant l’un après l’autre. La mécanique de la phrase musicale se mettra en place au fur et à mesure, ce qui me permettra de développer la linéarité dans le temps. Dans la partie centrale de la pièce les trois instruments joueront à l’unisson, et se retrouveront ensemble dans un même discours. La mandoline s’affirme ensuite dans un rôle soliste et se voit accompagnée par les harmonies brisées des guitares.

commande du Festival Musiques Démesurées

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released November 4, 2022
Recorded on October 28th 2021 à la Chapelle des Cordeliers – Clermont-Ferrand

Natalia Korsak, mandolin
Rémi Jousselme, Matthias Collet, guitars

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Tomas Bordalejo Paris, France

Far from musical academicisms, Tomas Bordalejo learns not only from the sounds of the world he lives in but also from the interaction with instrumentalists to build an abstract but also living and personal type of music.
His work is marked by a constant dialog with other arts, architecture along with urbanism or philosophy.
Each piece is witness to the scenic application of the sound. ... more

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