The Womb of the Sea


Le Radeau de la Méduse, Théodore Géricault

For two voices (2007)

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This piece was born from two main ideas. One was the intention of hearing, finding and enjoying musical aspects in ordinary speech, where phonemes, inflections and words comprise the aural/dramatic discourse. The other idea consisted in the transformation from a speech into musical elements by slowly modify phonemes and words’ rhythm.
The text is a passage from the book “oceano mare” by Alessandro Baricco. The chapter in this book was inspired from a verdict shipwreck occurred in 1816, when the French vessel, “La méduse”, collapsed 160 km from the Mauritania coast during a travel to Senegal.  This tragedy was immortalised in the painting “Le Radeau de la Méduse” by Théodore Géricault.


Voice: Begudí Barajas and Carla Acosta