Three clocks [I]

• Year of composition: 2023

• Instrumentation: solo guitar

• Duration: 10' approx.

• Premiere: 14th May 2023 at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan (IT) by Samuele Provenzi for Divertimento Ensemble's Rondò 2023

• Program notes:

Three clocks, which by definition mark time, crystallize into as many well-defined images: three brief representations of time but also of internal space, in a linearity that transforms into an instant, giving the listener the possibility of stopping and to observe what world can be contained in a single moment.

The piece is thus divided into three movements, understood as subdivisions of the same musical and temporal discourse: the alternation between the glacial stasis and the explosions of sound of the first clock is followed by the melos of the second, which explicitly recalls vocal sounds in an atmosphere tonally nuanced, almost like a distant lament; the frenzy of the third, on the contrary, photographs and expands the obsessive excitement of a repetitive cycle of chaotic thoughts.

These are therefore three dilated snapshots, three moments that become narration. Each of them is framed and explored through its infinite ramifications, in an attempt to investigate the essential and fundamental dimension of our existence: time.

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