Ferran Fages
Cançons per a un Lent Retard
Etude 2007

01. Suspens Vertical
02. Més Ràpid Que l'Ull
03. Tanget al Dit
04. L'Ombra del Dit
05. Suspens Horizontal
06. Paraula Clau
07. El Retard del Mirall
08. Gir Lent
09. Retall Llarg

"The impulse to compose this music has been to accompany the slow decay of my father's life… one way of expressing anguish and emptiness of seeing a life slip away. His death came one month after the recording. It's not a posthumous homage."

«Despedir-se és saber donar la mà a temps.
(To say goodbye is to give time one's hand)»

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Nine songs or 'cançons' that reveal (give us access to) the becoming of a song, opposed to today's platitude of objective and/or subjective song-writing... Ferran's are objective. They are song(ing)s just because they intent to produce meaning... A music reality is aimed at and diagrammatically consist of a multitude of horizontal and vertical lines. Lines opposed to plotting points. Possibilities of possibilities. Guitar compositions curving time with suspense, delay, slower or faster remnants. We are confronted with intensity 'colored' with dense and resistant materiality and aggressiveness... and it is not pure materiality. The musical event is immanentized by a death operation. The imminent death of a close person, totally unpredictable, was constantly interrupting (or not) the process of synthesis, retroactively forming the songs by assuming and distorting their materiality. The emotional and predetermined character of this operation dissolves through the insistent and continuous listening of the cançons, thus it seems that the songs' time can truly exist outside Ferran's emotional temporality (that's why they ARE songs). The conjunction and interconnections of these autonomous musical events, that coexist in many levels, produces refrains, small melodies, and many other different figures... In short, Ferran designates a "new" musical timeplace where improvisation and composition are open from being open-form or aleatory, a destinerrance where something eventually must happen, something beyond calculation and labor, not negating death, but something coming from the other, who is any-particular song listener." -Michalis Kyratsous