“El Grito (The Scream)”, for violin and piano, was initially inspired by Federico García Lorca’s 1921 poem of the same title, later included in *Poema del Cante Jondo* (Editorial Ulises, Madrid, 1931).

Lorca’s poem emerged from his encounter with flamenco culture. It reflects the spirit of duende—the darkly visceral, ancient vitality of the Earth that animates creation and empowers artists to convey spiritual truth by shattering the entrenched defences of the intellect. The composition reimagines duende in a contemporary context by acknowledging the precarious condition of our species in the twenty-first century—an existential era marked by humanity’s entry into the Anthropocene. The “scream” is reimagined as the Earth’s own cry, responding to humanity’s material dislocation from our planet and our estrangement from wisdom, stability, and Gaia—the living processes of the natural world.

El Grito 

El elipse de un grito
va de monte
a monte.
Desde los olivos,
Saldra un arco iris negro
sobre la noche azul.
¡Ay!
Como un arco de viola,
el grito ha hecho vibrar
largas cuerdas del viento.
¡Ay!
(Las gentes de las cuevas
asoman sus velones.)
¡Ay!

The deep scream

The ellipse of a deep cry
goes from hill
to hill. 
From the olive trees,
it will be a black rainbow
over the blue night.
Ay!
Like the bow of a viola,
the scream has pulsed
the long strings of the wind.

Ay
(The people of the caves (the Roma)
bring out their oil lamps.)