ORGANISMO APERTO No. 1
for string quartet & electronics
ex nihilø - 5' 22"

As something perfectly functional but extremely complex and ramified, as the unpredictable vital force of nature, ex nihilø starts "from nothingness" and then evolve independently, through a braided but very impetuous path, up to the saturation of the sourrounding space.
Bearer of a powerful in movement, caught as if in the act of feeding on the surrounding space, it is an "open organism" that can not be contained and branches out in different ways and directions, trying to wrap the whole.

© Giulio Colangelo 2014

Organismo Aperto No. 1

FORBIDDEN SOUNDSCAPES
for ensemble + electronics (pno,fl,vl,vla,perc)
ca. 8’

This work means to express both questions and enigmas related to the death of Narcissus. Ancient Greeks interpreted this myth also as a metaphor to argue that the artistic representation is mimesis, that is, the imitation of nature. Apart from the literary interpretations,  the figure of Narcissus has been debated in the contemporary. Philosophy, psychology and poetry focused on this tale in order to analyze human subjectivity in its relation to arts.  Just about to die, in his last moments, Narcissus is experiencing a rough struggle between the Self and his exterior image, the yearning for inner unity and the desperation for this lack. Can we not understand this tragic conflict as anticipating the end of western civilization? 
However, Narcissus represents also arts, the world where Apollo and Dionysius fight (recalling NIetzschean themes) and the realm where identity and difference play together with the aim of shaping a work of art. Once more, in a circular motion [cyclically], striving for unity in at odds with the unavoidable fragmentation [of the self??].

dedicated to Giampiero Gemini

Forbidden Soundscapes [Narcissus Nausea]

THAUMA 
for two percussionists on three prepared, amplified guitard + elelctronics

movement I - forgiante 
movement II - sospeso

very knowledge comes from [wonder]
[thauma] is amazement and strength; tension pressure and force
desire and attraction; rage.
[thauma] is to bite restlessy; a sense found.

[ to peoples of Greece ]

GC~

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