Archipiélago by Sergio Merce

From Sergio
Most people know my work as a saxophonist and also as a sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I use a microtonal sax that I built myself, and I modified it radically. This modification means the mechanisms of my alto saxophone create very rich harmonics and allow for slowly moving tonality.

With this recording though I wanted to explore a new approach to this idea of mircotonailty and texture. With “Archipiélago” I wanted to create a new way of approaching this depth of sound and form, which are the fundamental pillars of my music. In a certain sense these pieces show a different landscape, at the same time abstract and concrete, and are a development that pushes outward and I feel advances towards new limits of my abilities as a composer.

Disappearing into the silence, we seek to understand fear and suffering. Sometimes sound becomes silence and it is a vehicle that opens the doors of a new consciousness and perhaps, if everything goes well, we can see reality.

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