This album is the result of a five-year collaboration with Santiago Díez Fischer, which represents a wonderful symbiosis. lovemusic had already performed sólo verás ahora (2014) (which was enthusiastically received by the audience) and no son más silenciosos los espejos (2010) (the first piece that made Emiliano enjoy playing the piccolo!), after which we decided to commission a new piece for wind trio for a concert in Strasbourg. The result was plastic love (2020). For us, the essence and joy of creating music with Santiago lies in simplicity—the starting point is not a complicated or intellectual idea that the music then tries to imitate or maintain, but something simple that changes and evolves in the course of the collaborative creative process. The premiere of plastic love was a plastic party – plastic clothes, plastic cubes, plastic curtains, and of course Santiago's beloved boxes. During a break while rehearsing plastic love with Santiago, we began improvising, using the instruments like pressure valves and creating air sounds. Santiago joined in to explore the possibilities and parameters of what we were doing (this became intermezzo ii on this album). From then on, it was clear that we valued the collaboration and that further projects would follow.
This initial collaboration has developed into a creative process: Santiago proposes an initial idea and asks us to record some samples. Sometimes he is looking for a particular timbre, sometimes a specific pitch that he wants to know how we can manipulate with effects or mix with the other instruments, and sometimes a sequence of events. Santiago begins to shape the music based on these recordings. And it really feels more like “shaping” than “writing”: something that belongs more to the world of plastic arts than to a written form, something that is not rigid but curved and organic, i.e., malleable. The title and concept of this album also refer to this, which fits in with the general philosophy behind this project, which we have viewed more as an object than as a collection of pieces.
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