Ammos

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“Ammos (“sand”) is a piece in five continuous sections for four soprano voices. Built around the idea of voices acting as a sandy matrix, it explores the fragmentation of the whole and the unification of tiny particles. The starting point for writing this piece was the discovery of the sound of sand dunes. I was fascinated by the generation of pitches by moving sand, whose height varies according to the speed of the sand’s movement. The hybridization between fixed-pitch sounds and noisy, whistled sounds is at the heart of this piece. As for the text, each syllable was chosen for its musical sonority.”

Clara Olivares, April 2021