Un lloc entre dos records stands as the third piece in Ferran Fages’s trilogy for guitar and sinetones, plunging listeners into an environment of memory, duration, and pure perception. Composed and performed by the Catalan musician on Another Timbre, the work deconstructs traditional guitar sonority, instead proposing a landscape shaped by precise tunings, persistent resonance, and the interplay of acoustics with brief, pure electronic sinewaves. Fages draws on the legacy of Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, and Chiyoko Szlavnics, but carves out his own approach: rather than driving toward narrative or climactic gesture, he allows each sound to linger, each chord to evaporate into near-silence, shaping the music as a series of afterimages or sonic recollections.
The album’s atemporality - the refusal of traditional development - invites attentive listening, focusing the ear on minute shifts in overtone and microtonal interaction. Sinewaves hover like ghosts beside the guitar’s gentle attacks, sometimes enveloping, sometimes receding into the background. Throughout, Fages uses the electronics not as color but as a subtle memory device, bridging and sustaining shifts between each phrase. Guitar tunings are specified with obsessive care, producing harmonies that sound both inevitable and strange, at once grounded and fleeting.
Un lloc entre dos records submerges the listener in the immediacy of pure perception and the economy of materials. The work’s radical restraint is quietly transformative - each movement acts as a kind of sonic threshold, a place between recollection and possibility. The result is a personal but universal meditation, best experienced in one sustained hearing, echoing long after the final harmonics fade. Fages’s practice stands as an invitation to rethink musical form: here, memory and presence coexist, their boundary forever dissolving within cycles of resonance.