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Around 2001, I was looking at photos of my then friend Venca. Out of the huge number of photos we showed each other, one particular stuck in my memory. The photo shows the sky, thick leaden clouds cut through by the golden reflectors of the evening sun, and below that a mall with an exaggeratedly large "Kratzer" sign. The light scratch, uncompromisingly disrupting the dynamic structure of summer clouds, was named after a shop that is probably no longer standing there today, roughly twenty-three years later. The photo captures two distinct and ephemeral images in time. The dark and dense clouds scarred by the light disappeared only a short time after the photo was taken and the name of the mall "Kratzer", which again became commonplace and slowly disappeared together with the building. Whenever I heard the word "Kratzer" since then, I had before my eyes an image of the sky with the inscription.
During the initial work on my second string quartet, I envisioned a gradually changing structure that is brutally disrupted at some point. A sharp sonic cut into the dynamic web of blurring unison of four separate voices. I started from the inner idea of an image formed by two contrasting planes. The first is plastic, composed of many cells with a continuously evolving gesture covering the entire canvas. The second plane is a line of contrasting color drawn with a thick brush and a sharp stroke, a notch on the canvas. With a closer look at the individual “atoms of the sound cells” of the first musical plane and with the correct focus of the perceptual instrument, the interconnectedness of both levels will begin to emerge. "Dynamic cells" are formed by the same stroke of the brush, the contrast is part of both the basic sound atom and the whole structure. The entire composition is thus based on a single gesture, which is subject to changes in individual musical parameters.
The memory of the photo of the sky and the mall appeared this time not on the basis of the word heard, but due to a certain similarity of the two images. The name "Kratzer" was part of it.
Violin (2)
Viola
Cello
Pages - 62
Simone Corti
Sami Seif
Filippo Zapponi
