Callara I

Callara I is part of the Callara cycle. The title means in Spanish “he / she will be silent”. The work is inspired by ancient pre-Columbian texts that the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera used in his Cantata para América Mâgica, which announce the end of the world and Maya society. To reconsider absolutely in parallel with our finishing civilization. For Zad Moultaka “the resonances with our contemporary world are striking”. The piece becomes a space of exploration of the phenomenology of silence – to be silent or more precisely to be silenced -. Because “our civilization must be silent” and that it forces us, in its vast undertaking of de-subjectivity, to hide in silence. In this context, it is a double challenge, the “figuring out” of an abstract idea by instrumental training. The string quartet, the refinement of Western music, comes to wrap around the terribly song of a solo viola. This abstraction to be silenced by music is not the least oxymoron. Here is the break that will lead to the disappearance of sound.

The text and its translation
Cantata for América Mâgica
[Poems of Mercedes of Torobasados in antiguos texting pre-Colombinos]

Extract