i. Sometimes it’s hard to listen
The piece is composed of three short movements, inspired by Luigi Nono’s text The Error as Necessity, which discusses the inherent violence in the way we typically listen—a kind of listening that often involves hearing ourselves in the discourse of others, rather than truly opening up to different ideas. Espejos como muros is therefore an invitation to listen to other voices and to step outside our own mental structures and rationalisms when relating to others.
ii. Silence
"Silence.
It is very difficult to hear it.
It is very difficult to hear, in the silence, others. Other thoughts, other noises, other sonorities, other ideas. Through listening, we usually try to find ourselves in others. We want to find our own mechanisms, our own system, our own rationality, in the other.
There is in this a wholly conservative violence."
Excerpt from The Error as Necessity by Luigi Nono.
iii. Other Voices