Joselito is the name of a character embodied around drama and euphoria arising on a carnival. This piece also alludes Barranquilla and its season of celebrations and fun. Barranquilla a city on the Caribbean where myths, legends, and mysteries melt, everything is always out of the ordinary all year around. Here facts fall short on thresholds ranging between reality and fantasy thereby lifting imagination to outer dimensions and uttermost bounds. On these coordinates, it is second nature to live on the edge of taradiddles, ambiguities and exaggerations of facts, though giving life a twist of spice. If sights are seen through colored glasses, on carnival days essence seems colorful outshining everything that goes around. ``Carnivalesque'' spirit is fund of spontaneity and kidding everybody around. While moving one's body stepping along a pulse, rhythm and motion shows a pace outmatching liveliness with enjoyment for most part. -Aim is to please body-and-soul and always having fun.-
Dancing is upmost and everybody is meeting everyone, however on the crowd, just below a horizon, there is 'Joselito', an outstanding symbol of this celebration. He comes to shine by marking dawn and dusk as bounds for each party and by making fun is allover. Here he is the king of a kingdom lasting a span of whenever there are feasts. On this kingdom imagination is let free, showing no boundaries whatsoever. Legends tell a tale of a real person leaving home to find a kingdom where festivities consisting of absolute enjoyment are happening around. On this path 'Joselito' disappears and no one seems to know about his whereabouts. Though being in a carnival he dances until body cannot do more and gets drunk by enjoying all around.
However and going further, on last day of carnival 'Joselito' is found half-dead, undertow and his body is put into a coffin. Fables tell seemingly that close ones believe he has passed away and is not part of his kingdom and world anymore signaling ending of this fete. Apparently coping with facts, his burial is staged as an episode where pregnant widows and bill collectors act as his pals. Here hectic people is seen shouting voices of sadness for the spirit of their king. Suddenly, on a random moment, on the middle of everything, while the casket was going down, Joselito wakes up astound of where he is. He is still alive!. Narrative about this scene portraits a metaphor of life-after-life, meaning the longing of a carnival and beginnings of ordinary life as usual.
This composition borrows rhythms made of known semantics, although other known sound prejudices arise. The above casts an image by framing significance of a character of the Caribbean, Barranquilla and the Carnival. This is a Computer Music piece where nuances are taken live from sounds of the carnival, in addition to synthesis of percussion instruments and trombone. Here like a parade, sections on this piece resemble stages of life, namely the birth of the king, dance, flowers and death.