Au zénith de son rire

• Year of composition: 2022

• Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet & cello

• Duration: 4' approx.

• Premiere: 29th May 2022 at Palazzo Ghirlanda-Silva in Brugherio (IT) by AltreVoci Ensemble (Laura Bersani, flute; Martina Di Falco, bass clarinet; Giorgio Lucchini, cello) for Fondazione Luigi Piseri

• Program notes:

The work is intended as a tribute to Sylvano Bussotti. “Bilangue”: this is the title of Sylvano's very powerful verses, which – with an emotionally powerful and meaningful description – "break" the atmosphere by slipping from one language to another, in a disorder (which is only apparent) of thoughts: the world of emotion and, above all, of sensuality opens up in its purest form.

In the same way – almost like a single body – the three instruments of the ensemble interact with each other and blend their timbres almost in a symbiotic way, with abrupt "color changes" within a discourse made up of ascents and descents, of summits and depressions, of suffused atmospheres and pungent climaxes. An uninterrupted thread that wants to connect deeply with Bussotti's verses: the world of sound meets that of words, recreating in the timbre (and in the transformations of the latter) a universe full of emotional meaning.

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