"...Echar abajo las paredes entre el hombre y el hombre, juntar lo que fue separado..." (...tear down the walls between man and man, unite what has been divided). This quotation from Cántaro roto by Octavio Paz appears at the beginning of Exabrupto (1997-98) and is by way of a dedication to the memory of the Mexican indians who were killed in 1998 at Acteal, Chiapas.

The internal structure of the work is based on the idea of invading, as the title suggests: in fact Exabrupto consists of two musically and rhythmically strongly contrasting movements which are not played in succession but in fact co-exist, the second one gradually replacing the first, interrupting its discourse by introducing a series of fragments which progressively get longer until they take over entirely. These highly dramatic “invasions” not only create sudden breaks but also the manner in which this happens is highly theatrical and the fractures in the soundscape are as sudden as they are jarring; to this writer the contrast between these two soundworlds appears to be almost a metaphor for that between life and death.