Bendicho juez de la verdad

Eldad Tsabary

2000/7:40 MIN./for trombone and electronics

Despite its familiar sound, the title Bendicho juez de la verdad is noticeably not in Spanish (Bendicho rather than Bendecido). It is a Jewish Ladino funeral blessing meaning ˝Blessed is the Judge of Truth˝ or ˝Blessed is the Righteous Judge˝. This blessing represents acceptance of God´s word - good or bad - with joy.


The first and third sections´ electronic part of the piece consists of pads based upon noise shaping techniques such as phase shifting, decorrelation, wave-reversal, pitch shifting, delay, reverb and voice-layering. The trombone played by Haim Avitsur, floats above the pads and vocoded (Hebrew) text of the chant. In the mid-section the electronics part becomes more involved (and gradually more complex) with the trombone part (rhythmic unison, mirror-relation) and eventually resolves into the third section´s detachment - similar to the first´s.