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ascendentă a piesei spre Actul 5, Scena 4. Piesa lui Emperor Caesar is a necessary death, just as any other
Saltillo se finalizează cu un monolog al lui Henry al IV- death:
lea: „Presume not that I am the thing I was;/For God doth
„Caesar: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
know, so shall the worl perceive,/That I have turn’d away
it
seems
to me most strange that man should fear;/
my former self/So will I those that kept me company.”
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it
Piesele lui Saltillo sunt „cadavre rafinate”12. will come.
Acelaşi gen de versificaţie şi text îl întâlnim şi în
Calpurnia: When beggars die, there are no
dialogul dintre Cesar şi Calpurnia. Textul este preluat
comets
seen.
după piesa eponimă a lui Shakespeare. Să fie oare
Saltillo o reinventare mai muzicală a lui Shakespeare?
Caesar: Cowards die many times before their
A Necessary End este o compoziţie de 6 minute, însă death.”13
textul este foarte puţin, este un dialog între vocea
The composition of Remember me? 14 is more
Sarhei Matthews transformată în Calpurnia şi cea a
lui John Matthews devenită Cesar prin transgresiune rhythmical, it’s magnetism being possible because of
fonică. Vocile celor doi vorbesc într-un stil programat: the dynamic instrumentalist combinations. The Opening
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, on the other hand, conveys moods of aggravated
la 1:35 minute, la 1:57 minute şi la 2:27 minute, gradat
şi concis. Moartea împăratului Cesar era o moarte psychosis because of the bass sounds of the cello and
the slow beats which overlap with finished and sharp
necesară, la fel ca oricare altă moarte:
tones of the violin. Saltillo wields the violin with the
„Caesar: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, same artistry as Alexander Ryback.
it seems to me most starnge that man should fear;/
Abeo16 takes us to a spatial deixis of nocturnal
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it
symbols17. Minute 2:02 brings the violin on the stage
will come.
in contradiction with the previous aggravated tones:
Calpurnia: When beggars die, there are no comets „Durational Lords, your time is drawn,/now bleed the
seen.
sting of fear again. Construct wit hveil to persist./Death
Caesar: Cowards die many times before their will know your name./I am the obligation of creation,/
as such as undistinguished./All creatures must bare
death.”13
witness to cause,/My undifined pretense impose to
Compoziţia piesei Remember Me?14 este effect./Trust the way of things enough to know that this
mai ritmată, magnetismul ei fiind posibil datorită must be.”18
combinaţiilor instrumentaliste dinamice. The
Proxy18 gets very close to the psychedelic rock,
Opening15, în schimb, transmite stări de psihoză
agravată datorită tonurilor joase de violoncel şi but the grave tones of the violin lead it to a symbolist
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bătăilor încetinite peste care se suprapun acorduri frame of the human existence. If Wishes were Catholics
finisate şi ascuţite de vioară. Saltillo mânuieşte vioara represents a demythisation of false hopes and ideals:
cu aceeaşi măiestrie cu care o mânuieşte şi Alexander „You think you are something/You think you are
something/So you’re suppose to be my ideal/Can’t even
Ryback.
deal with yourself/I need new heroes.”21 Saltillo tries,
16
Abeo ne introduce într-un deixis spaţial al through his compositions, to recreate a compensatory
simbolurilor nocturne17. Minutul 2:02 aduce vioara place of human sensibility and a place of consolation.
în scenă în contradicţie cu tonurile grave anterioare:
The Locus Priory22 begins with quite dynamic
„Durational Lords, your time is drawn,/now bleed the
instrumental sounds, but with an effect of hypnosis
12 Cadavrul rafinat este o scriere realizată de mai mulţi
on the mind. The violin and the electrifying sounds
participanţi care scriu câte un text pe o bucată de hârtie. La final
combine with each other periodically and dissimulate
se adună toate piesele de hârtie, se amestecă şi sunt aranjate
apoi aleatoriu pentru a forma un text întreg. Textul compus nu a chorus of a relaxing state, however, at the same
prezintă logică în exprimare, ci un haos ideatic din punct de time, of an ascending anxiety. The contradiction of the
vedere semantic şi semiotic.
tones is phonically visible, the sounds shape images of
13 Saltillo, A Necessary End, album Ganglion, Suspicious emotional moods. As well as the symbolists’, Saltillo’s
Record Isabel, 2006.
connections are alive and tangible, phonic especially.
14 idem, Remember Me?.
The Locus Priory, rhythmically speaking, gets close to
15 idem, The Opening.
16 idem, Abeo, album Monocyte, Artoffact Records Isabel, Wim Mertens’ compositions, but only from the point of
view of the dynamic created.
2012.
17 Gilbert Durand, Les structures anthropologiques
l’imaginaire, Editura Dunod, Paris, 1993.
de
The concern about the trance moods has appeared