Reyes Oteo’s brief piece, entitled A(D/G)ONÍAS (Sucesión), is a is about the matter of absence, about the zero sound of space, which progresses in such a way that the faint sound veil of the beginning is gradually revealed, like a photograph, so that it becomes strongly present, in a dense groan. The germinal matter of this piece is only the sound of the silences in the recording of a cello piece. This work is based on the homonymous poem by Rosario F. Cartes, on the Greek ritual of the Adonijah, in which the women recreated every year the lament of Aphrodite for the death of her beloved Adonis, “Gentle Adonis is dying, O Cythera, what shall we do? Beat your breasts, O maidens, and rend your garments.”
The poem is:
A
(G/D)
O
N
Í
A
S
(Sucesión)