100 years old. ‘Dialogue de l'ombre double’ was written by Pierre Boulez between 1984 and 1985, in homage to the seventieth birthday of the Italian composer Luciano Berio.
Based on a scene from Paul Claudel's Le soulier de satin (The Satin Shoe), it proposes a dialogue between the live instrumentalist (clarinet in the original version) and his sound shadow. In this way, the ‘sound shadow’ of the live musician is created through the reworking of musical fragments previously recorded by the instrumentalist himself, a sound diffusion system that surrounds the audience, and reverberation.

Esteban Cabana presents a new version for alto saxophone and audio and video recordings of Dialogue de l'ombre double.

PIERRE JODLOWSKI (France, 1971) Mixtion (2002) tenor saxophone and electronicsPIERRE BOULEZ (France, 1925-2016) Dialogue de l'ombre double (1985) version for alto saxophone, spatialised audio and video*GERMÁN ALONSO (Spain, 1984) O Gran Cabrón (2012) baritone saxophone and live electronics
IXOR Aula de saxofón del CMUS Superior de A CoruñaPablo Peláez, Esteban Cabana, Pablo Rodríguez_saxofón
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