Iloi by Adolfo Kaplan is a four mallet solo scored for 4.3 octave marimba.
Program Notes:
The pursuit of an object thrown at infinity does that to a wire.
ILOI, pun, on this imaginary thread (hilo thread means in Spanish) that stretches into the unconscious of the creator when he composes. Without knowing its origin or intended, without knowing what it is attached or where it will lead him. It nourishes inspiration with its many possibilities.
No rest for the player, he must travel through space partition remaining calm despite the difficulty and the continued strength of the piece. The structural challenge is there. Hold, move, move, trip, slip, jump, in a dance that alludes to a capoeira solos or a drummer. Is continued listening, the passage of bright material on processing volumes, on uneven ground. ILOI the game resembles that of a moving train, the outlook figures extend to infinity. The soundscapes are linked with their varied types.
Obstacles arise along the way, the contours shake the passage, echoes and memories, brings us back to the immediate past of listening. Linear time is abolished, the elements are linked in part a temporal consciousness becomes fluid, omnipresent, knitted into the fabric of our memory.
