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DON JUAN

credits

Sarah Claman (vln), Saint Khalify (original idea), ESMUC (Recording and space provide) - Barcelona, June/25

for

Violin

In Don Juan, the figure of the seducer is transposed into the violin — an instrument historically tied to elegance, technique, and control.


The fall of Don Juan is expressed as a loss of form and meaning: the myth of mastery collapses, dissolving into noise and raw matter. Yet this violence does not imply denial, but displacement. The work questions our perception of sound and the instrument itself: what does it mean to play?


From this perspective, breaking the violin is not a negation of tradition but an extension of it. Destruction reveals itself as another mode of musical gesture — as valid and expressive as virtuosic performance. The piece ends abruptly, affirming that everything depends on the ear — and the gaze — with which we choose to listen.

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