MUSIC interview and photography by ALEPH MOLINARI virtuoso musician gaspar claus pushes the musical boundaries of the cello, mixing it with electroacoustic compositions, field recordings, and stereophonic textures to create enigmatic soundscapes. his first solo album, tancade, is a masterpiece. ALEPH MOLINARI — How did you come to choose the cello as your means of expression? GASPAR CLAUS — In my family, music is a profession. My father’s a musician and plays a rather exuberant type of flamenco. He’s 83 years old and comes from a cross-cultural school of flamenco that was born in India, crossed the Arab world, headed up into Andalusia, and from there began radiating out through the Western world. In my parents’ house, there has always been this crisscrossing of music from all over the world. I was steeped in it. I could read music before I could read French. One day, in the little village next to…