The novel Rayuela (Hopscotch),written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar in 1963 was one of the main sources of inspiration for my music composition language and style
Written in an episodic, snapshot manner, the novel has 55 chapters, the last 9 designated as "expendable."
An author's note suggests that the book would best be read in one of two possible ways: either progressively from chapters 1 to 56, with all subsequent "expendable chapters" being excluded, or by "hopscotching" through the entire set of 155 chapters according to a "Table of Instructions" designated by the author. Chapter 55 is left out all together in this second method, and the book would end with a recursive loop, as the reader is potentially left to "hopscotch" back and forth between chapters 58 and 131 infinitely. Cortázar also leaves the reader the option of choosing a unique path through the narrative.
I tried to adapt these techniques of broken narrative, parallel reality or alternative sequencing of events to create musical compositions that challenged the traditional music discourse. Pieces like Alles ist Leer..., Hopscotch, String Quartet or Clarinet Quintet were composed following these ideas.
Nowadays, as a visual artist I am also trying to use Rayuela's example to distort reality, break-up symmetries or having alternative points of view of the subjetcs that I represent in my work