Saturno

Saturno is a work for solo double bass, orchestra, poem and electronics — an interdisciplinary and intertextual creation. It enters into dialogue with Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco de Goya, as well as with three poems by Spanish writer Tamia Olga Cáceres. Conceived as an ode to parenthood, it explores the mythological prophecy wherein Saturn (or Cronus) is fated to be overthrown by one of his own offspring, just as he himself betrayed his father. While Zeus ultimately fulfills this destiny, this piece lingers on the forgotten ones — those sons who could not escape their doomed inheritance, swallowed by a fear greater than their own futures.

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