Ossi di seppia (cuttlefish bones)

These five short pieces are inspired by poems by Eugenio Montale, italian Nobel laureate in 1975. In his work, starting from the first collection, Ossi di Seppia (1925), Montale focused on the dilemmas of modern history, philosophy, love, and human existence in poems that are characterized by the hermeticism of the message if not of the language, in a dramatic and psychological dynamism.
In each of these compositions I explored the dilemma of the sound in a multiform collection of audio manipulations that create dynamical and evocative portraits of the poet’s words.

2006

flute and live electronics

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