Presentation by Germán Alonso and Alberto Chaves (soloist SIGMA Project).

Concert: In Heaven everything is fine (2011). Videocreation by Pablo Magne (Buenos Aires)

Conversation: From concept to sound. Germán Alonso (composer) and Alberto Chaves

Musical Tip: The Tubax. Alberto Chaves

In Heaven everything is fine (2011) for saxophone quartet
Work composed during the “Session de Composition Voix Nouvelles 2011” of the Royaumont Fondation (France).
World Premiere: 25/09/2011, Royaumont Abbey (France), (Xasax Quartet)
Spanish Premiere: 18/02/2012, Auditorio Nacional de Música, II Festival SON (MusicadHoy), SIGMA Project


In Heaven everything is fine rejects the idea of directionality of musical events by erasing any trace of narrative intention in its sonic course of action. When any arrow of musical time is suggested, it is abruptly interrupted, thus creating a kind of static (sound) space-time.

Musical objects —in their seemingly aimless existence— refuse the exhaustion of their own material, establishing instead non-linear deformation processes, or appearing and disappearing as premonitions.

These kinds of “absurd” musical situations are somewhat inspired by the surreal world created in David Lynch‘s film “Eraserhead”, from which the title of the piece is borrowed.

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