LENGUAS MUERTAS

Lenguas Muertas (Dead Languages) expresses the idea that the drumheads and membranes of the instruments speak and recover four “dead languages”: Hittite, Akkadian, Etruscan and Gothic. They are four languages transcribed in a showcase of complex rhythms, generating a discourse full of energy and occasionally obsession. The four lan-guages give rise to four contrasting sections. 

Each fragment is a sonorous metaphor for each language’s morphology and culture. 

All these sections gain coherence and unity thanks to two elements present throughout the work: the rhythmic grouping made up of the 5-6-7 (with all the possible variations) and a small rhythmic cell that mutates according to the language we are dealing with.

SET 1

A - Bombo

B – Low Tom

C – Snare Drum

D - Bongos

E - Sleigh Bells

F – Opera Gong

G – Tam-tam

SET 2

A – Bombo 

B – Low Tom 

C – High Tom 

D – Conga

E – Tambourine

F – Pitched Gong

G – Opera Gong