douleur exquise (2015) string quartet (General score) - Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete

Inspired by theories of parallel universes, douleur exquise transforms a single pitch, A, into four independent musical trajectories. Shared among the instruments yet constantly evolving, this common source generates a network of convergences, divergences, and resonances that evoke memory, imagination, dream, past, and future. The result is a string quartet in which a single musical identity unfolds through multiple simultaneous possibilities.