Vox Oceani

About

Premier performance: TBA

General inspiration for the piece came in result of the events that occurred in 2020 at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music Library in Venice, where the unexpected rise in the water level caused flooding of the floor where some ancient manuscript scores were contained, which were consequently damaged. The hypothesis has been put forward is that this unexpected rise – extraordinary even for a city like Venice – was caused by recent climatic changes and thus has an anthropological root. Therefore, I thought of representing the event of the “watering down” of the manuscripts through the reworking of one of the works contained precisely in the Library, Benedetto Marcello’s Sonata for Flute No. 2. The idea is to “immerse” the notes of this ancient music in liquid and opaque atmospheres. The piece is thus, at once, a celebration of the bursting power of nature, a revisitation of music of the past in a contemporary key, and a warning to the actions of man that lead to the devastation of the environment-through a subdued reference to George Crumb’s Vox Balenae.

for alto flute, cello, piano and a 2^ player

5’00”