Emergence

‘The title ‘Emergence’ refers to that subtle yet powerful moment when an idea, an emotion, or a state of awareness bursts forth from silence and takes shape. Much like the very act of composing, a revelation rising from the invisible.
The work draws inspiration from personal experiences in recent months and finds in the sea its central metaphor. Sounds of rorqual whale families, immersed in patient, endless dialogue, serve as a starting point to recreate, through the orchestra, the acoustic distortions we perceive when listening to music underwater, a medium that entirely transforms the transmission of sound.
There are moments in life when nostalgia arises for what we’ve left behind. In those instants, harmonic dissonances dissolve, giving way to a longing for timelessness. The sea then appears as a powerful image: seemingly scattered particles converging into something immense and eternal.
It mirrors the awareness of being alive, a search for that amniotic sensation of having once been in a mother’s womb, an experience we cannot consciously recall, yet one that, in essence, becomes a metaphor for plenitude.
From that nostalgia arises the need to find, in every lived moment, who we truly are: concentrated life seeking to be fully lived until the very last instant.
Conceived as a prelude to Debussy’s La Mer, Emergence is built on a six-note modal theme that is first deconstructed into scattered points and, from the deepest calm, gradually reorganised into intricate counterpoint and harmony, culminating in a final celebration of near-cathedral solemnity.’ (Ferran Cruixent)