Chapela, Enrico - Crucigrama (4 Guitars & String Quartet)

In many of his works, the young Mexican composer Enrico Chapela takes pleasure in the playful and sensuous side of serial composing. For example, the commission to compose a double quartet inspired him to develop an idea according to which the exponentiated character of the two groups consisting of four string instruments each – a quartet ‘raised to the power of 2’ so to speak – should be displayed structurally, and so he invented a crossword puzzle (‘Crucigrama’) which he then retranslated into musical parameters.