"This piece sets to music poetry by Panamanian multidisciplinary artist Mar Alzamora-Rivera, based on a line “mute guitar” from her poem “August and Everything After” from 2016. It was composed as a collaboration while at a residency at Casa del Soldado in Panama City with support from the foundation Ibermúsicas. In this version the voice is recited over densely woven textures by a quartet of violin, viola, cello and bass, while a clarinet playing at times with half the body of the instrument, or the full instrument, with mouthpiece or without it, embodies the different meanings evoked in the poem."
