…tutt'occhi

Voice is the natural connection between sound and the sound of words. Sound as a bodily experience is part of my musical world as a composer and of my musical training as soprano Over the course of the last few years, my collaboration with the poet Elisa Biagini was inspiring. Her work is characterized by a fragmented self-contained language: throughout her collection of fragment-poems, words build a path, forming a continuous and twisting net. The contradiction between the discontinuousness of the fragments and the continuity of the relationships between words, converges toward an intersecting point: my compositional world. For “...tutt'occhi”, I wanted to use one of these fragments as a structural backbone and as a seed for  further ramifications. These ramifications are inspiring poetical image; furthermore they are a very concrete image of the real space and the possible development of the sonic potential. The word-sound does not spread out in a linear way, but it expands in different directions, in disparate layers of the structure: the structure of the piece, of the space, of the sound projection, of the ensemble, and of the electronics. The quality of the contralto voice build a world in itself, and branch out    towards the ensemble.
The piece was commissioned by Experimentastudio Freibug and by Allianz-Kulturstiftung Le dita tutt’occhiper sentirti nuotare,annegare, pensieri mieitinti dal rumore d’api,la voce tua sale dall’acqua:ha buccia di spillo.Text from  “MANDELN ATMEN – Respiro di mandorla”  by Elisa Biagini