WALKING THE LABYRINTH Walking the Labyrinth is a suite in four movements composed by Antonio Fresa, which recounts the metaphor of a backwards-running existence experienced through evaporation, solidity, chaos and the origin of life. Evaporation, the end of breathing, is a track constructed in six quarters, like the six walls of the rooms of Borges’ imaginary library. Solidity is the wisdom of maturity, the relationship with one’s own and Borges’ roots, with Argentina and its instrument, the bandoneòn. Chaos is the labyrinth, the centre of life and the tumultuous search for the self at our most immature, restless age. It draws inspiration from one of the movements of Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and has a ternary subdivision which conveys a sense of cyclicity. The main melodic cell is expressed dierently each time, highlighting the unusual forking that the paths of time may undergo. The fourth movement is the origin of life, a digital, non-organic sound which comes from afar, a primordial spark which advances rhythmically and takes us back to the starting-point of existence, closing the symbolic circle of the whole composition.