Si oscura la vista
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English
Si oscura la vista, or the sight darkens… or the sight becomes clouded, it is inspired by the first verse of the poem Morire in levità by the Russian poet Arseni Tarkovsky, father of the famous filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The poem is quoted verbatim in Italian in the film Nostalgia, by the protagonist's voice-over. The poem hints at those final moments when a human being reminisces, and the visual, auditory, and even olfactory sensations that this act evokes.
A continuous sound background—resembling a murmur with uncertain notes—that appears and disappears throughout the piece is established as a metaphor for that clouded vision of someone who is dying. Alongside this persistent sound, various sonorities with melodic traces emerge and disappear quickly, as well as harmonic qualities—use of quarter tones and very narrow intervals, among others—that reinforce a recurrent iridescence.
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