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Suono e corpo. Parametrizzazione dei processi performativi, articolazioni sonore e contagio esperienziale nella proposta musicale di Dario Buccino
2022
Il contributo prende in esame la singolare ricerca performativo-sonora del compositore Dario Buccino (Roma, 1968), la profonde implicazioni esistenziali della sua poetica, il sitema di notazione non convenzionale da lui messo a punto e le tappe fondamentali del suo itinerario creativo dagli anni Novanta a oggi.
Hearing Early Modern Music Through the Contemporary
2022
This chapter focuses on how contemporary music practice interacts with early modern1 aesthetics. Two projects, in which Georg Philip Telemann’s solo fantasias are interspersed with contemporary techniques and repertoire, serve as case studies. Firstly, the flutist Felix Renggli commissioned new pieces from 11 contemporary Swiss composers, to be inserted in between Telemann’s 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute. Secondly, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva performed a set of Telemann’s Solo Fantasias for Violin using extended techniques pioneered by Salvatore Sciarrino in his 6 caprices. In this text I use these two different approaches as case studies for how early modern music, exemplified by Telemann, ca…
Mapping the sound world of the flute: towards a new classification of standard and extended techniques
2016
In the last decades, some literature has been published about extended techniques, and composers have made them part of the contemporary music language. However, the classification of extended techniques in these writings is often arbitrary, based on the way they have been discovered and used. In this contribution, a new way of classifying flute playing techniques is proposed, with the aim of grouping them according to their role in sound production and to the gestural parameters that are involved for each of them. First, a definition of the concept of extended technique is given. An overview of publications since the 1960s will show the existing classifications; then types of musical gestu…
Presentazione
2017
This article, introducing the book by Marilena Laterza about same contemporary rewrites of Gesualdo da Venosa’s compositions, explains the many problematic aspects inherent the musical rewrite and indicates the interesting choices made by the author.