Departing from a transtextual approach to music composition, Directionlessness is a solo piece that pays homage to the work and ideas of two composers who I admire, namely, Peter Ablinger and Morton Feldman. In this work I create a performative and conceptual space for listeners to appreciate quiet sounds, sounds that are usually unnoticed or under-rated, such as the sound of raindrops falling on the ground. In addition to the vibraphone, the instruments used in this work include a set of highly amplified glass objects; these are hit by water drops that fall from soaked pieces of fabric (which are suspended over the glass objects), and create a rich sonic layer of aleatory and intricate polyrhythms.

The dripping sounds are combined with the sonority of the vibraphone, which is played (in most of the piece) by the performer’s fingertips, in the search for a sonic intention similar to that of raindrops. More than the establishment of any explicit musical materials or the architecture of a harmonic discourse, as a composition Directionlessness intends to provide a continuous flow of sound textures, a flow that simply seems “to pass" through the listener without a specific direction.