Sei drappeggi dal mondo

The six miniatures come from fascination for the popular craftsmanship typical of the furthest local traditions. The idea is therefore that of an extremely «ornamental» music, in which the image of drapery is a symbol for decorativeness, sinuosity, but also spontaneity and authenticity, almost as if to recall the idea of frescoes and their figurative motifs. Such inspiration materialises in the choice of precise harmonic fields drawing from scales and systems typical of the various popular musical traditions. In order not to make these scales excessively recognisable, such harmonic fields are expanded, augmented by conquering new pitches, estranged to referred scales, but always in a disturbed manner and especially always through the gestuality of specific performing techniques which, via the exploration of different timbres, present and disguise at the

same time such new «interferences». As miniatures, the goal is to represent a music as essential and limited as it is authentic, in which the little encloses (and recounts) the lot, as indeed is in figurative arts, where an atemporal experience such as a visual representation, «instantaneous» by definition, actually conveys a great amount of information as well as multiple and varied modalities to assimilate them.

Sala Casella, Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Rome, Italy), 30/11/24, finalists' concert "43esima edizione Premio Valentino Bucchi" (honourable mention)