Stalagmites

  • Year of composition: 2024

  • Instrumentation: low flutes trio (alto, bass & contrabass flutes)

  • Duration: 7' approx.

  • Premiere: 14th April 2024 at Ballroom Bellmont in Washington DC (USA) by Aulos Flute Ensemble (Karen Karólínudóttir, Petrea Óskarsdóttir & Pamela De Sensi) for International Low Flutes Festival

  • Program notes:

The title of the work is evocative: just as the limestone material is projected and transformed drop by drop, resonance propagates through the attack of sound. The three low flutes, with their harmonics, their respective resonances and a wide use of techniques according to an always imaginative and "dramaturgical" criterion, blend together in always relatively different combinations – the fusion of breaths gives shape to the entire narrative arc, which seeks the expressiveness of an image without ever paralyzing itself in staticity.