Lu - Hugo Morales Murgia

The work is focused on some inherent possibilities of the instrument. On one hand the use of a number of performance techniques that explore its possibilities of sound articulation in relation to vibration, and on the other, the physical alteration of the instrument by means of adding simple preparations consisting of objects made of aluminum. The piece is constructed over a recurrent set of three pitches form where a number of different techniques accumulate progressively, exploring relationships between consonance, resonance, vibration and complex sounds. The word “lū”stands for “aluminum” in the Romanization from the Taiwanese sound. As a whole, the piece represents the art in finding, re-inventing the sound of new instruments out of existing ones, and the idea of discovering music anywhere.
-Hugo Morales Murgia