19 Knives

Is a piece totally produced by electronic means, where two MIDI keyboards interact over a preexisting sound landscape. The tape is created from acoustic instrument samples. It evokes static and dark atmospheres, which evolve slowly thanks to the variety of sounds and movement introduced by the virtual samplers. Those, at the same time, are progressively moving towards more static sonorities and gestures, until they eventually fade into the surrounding landscape. The title of the piece corresponds to the musical material of the last section, where diverse sounds coming from the tape and created by stretching and cross-synthesis processes, generate some echoes in the MIDI samplers which are repeated 19 times.