AHORA VAN A VER…

CHI SONO IO, Y DA L’OCÉANO UN BUQUE HANTÈ

“Now they will see who I am.” So thinks a boy born of paper and ink, adrift in the magical reality of García Márquez. He carries within him the memory of that enormous ship, twenty times taller than the village church tower, ninety-seven times longer than the village itself, and yet so spectral that it vanished each time the lighthouse found it. Every year, on the same night in March, he had watched it come. Every year, he had watched it break apart on the reef and sink into the ocean in the most absolute, bewildering silence. No one had believed him. No one had looked. No one had ever followed him down to the shore on those March nights. The village had always preferred its own version of him: a madman.

“Now they will see who I am.” With a small rowing boat and a faint red lamp, the boy guides the great liner away from the reef , and toward the village. As the vast steel hull splits the earth open and the rooftops give way, the unbelievers finally look up, mouths open, confronted by the largest ocean liner in this world, and in any other.

Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez’s story “El último viaje del Buque Fantasma”, the work “Ahora van aver…” was composed for and inspired by Marina Boselli.

Technical notes:

Preparation:

3rd valve

Insert a tenor drone wood reed for bagpipe, tuned in D5 (A4 = 440Hz).
Increase the reed connection diameter with gasket tape (Teflon) or other materials in order to adhere more effectively to the tube surface and prevent air leaks

4th valve

Insert two tuning pipes with metal reeds tuned in C4 and D4 (A4 = 440Hz).
Combine the two pipes putting both inside a rubber tube, ensuring that the air outlet of the first tuning pipe aligns with the inlet of the second.
If needed increase the rubber tube diameter, with gasket tape (Teflon) or other materials, to adhere more effectively to the tube surface and prevent air leaks.