Fascinating, evocative.    I look forward to a second listen

"La vita delle conchiglie" (for 2 performers and amplified ensemble) is the first piece of a cycle that deals with the world hidden inside the shells. The piece, as well as the whole cycle is somehow connected and inspired by a Francis Ponge's poem.
"La vita delle conchiglie" (The life of the shells) was premiered by the Ensemble Phace conducted by Nacho De Paz in the Wiener Konzerthaus on February 2021.

Lorenzo Troiani_La vita delle conchiglie_2020

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This version was recorded April 12, 2021 at McGill University

For amplified speaking percussion quartet and fixed media.

Performers:
Percussion I - Eric Orosz
Percussion II - Yue-Yin Zhang
Percussion III - Joseph Chang
Percussion IV - Kristie Ibrahim
Conductor - Fabrice Marandola

Included in Electronics:
Guido da Montefeltro (Dante Alghieri) - Simone Cardini
"The women... talking of Michelangelo" - Talia Fuchs, Beatrice Ferreira

Illustration - Federico Zuccari (Dante & Virgil speaking with Guido da Montefeltro in the 8th circle of hell)

This piece is inspired by "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot and attempts to recreate its progression of poetic images and spaces, as well as their associated affects, in music. Both the musical work and the original poem open with a quote from Dante’s Inferno spoken by Guido da Montefeltro in the 8th circle of hell. One of the quote’s functions is to situate both the original poem and this musical translation within the multi-layered architecture of Prufrock's internal world. Like the nine circles of hell, this musical landscape is characterized by a meaningful orientation. As one ventures deeper and deeper, the distance from external reality grows and the sound-scape becomes increasingly abstract. Closer to the surface, the listener is able to eaves-drop on the outside world, where sounds represent recognizable people, places and things. As Prufrock's existential reverie intensifies, the lines between interior and exterior space grow fainter and fainter.

Till human voices wake us and we drown (2021)

L'Infinie puissance des vagues - Mvmt. I

L'Infinie puissance des vagues won the student prize of the international electroacoustic composition competition KLANG! 2023 : https://klangacousmonium.wordpress.com/concours-international-de-composition-electroacoustique-klang/

Le titre et le concept sonore de cette pièce sont tirés d'un poème en prose de mon père. La phrase entière est : "À chaque assaut de la mer, il rit, il joue à avoir peur, car il ne connaît pas encore l'infinie puissance des vagues.” Ce mouvement est un labyrinthe sonore. Les portes s'ouvrent et se ferment. Les murs apparaissent et disparaissent. Le sol s'écroule. Les plafonds s'effondrent. Les couloirs s'entremêlent et se délient sans cesse, évoquant une cartographie sonore en constante évolution dans l'imagination de l'auditeur qui s'étalera au long des deux prochains mouvements.

The title and sound concept for this piece are drawn from a prose poem by my father. The translation of the full sentence is : “They laugh at each assault from the sea, playing at being scared, for they don't yet know the infinite power of the waves.”  This movement is a labyrinth in sound. Doors open and close. Walls appear and disappear. Floors fall out. Ceilings cave in. Corridors are incessantly interwoven and unwound, evoking an ever-changing sonic cartography in the listener's imagination which will spread across the two following movements.

composé mars-mai 2022, la haye

À chaque assaut de la mer, il rit,...

a brief study in aleatoric atmospheres using the Buchla 265 Quad S&H Module.

Clusters One

EDA BROWN_BROKEN TANGO

Vertical lights on lost bodies [excerpt] | for string quartet

Written for and performed by Quartetto Maurice | www.quartettomaurice.com/it

Co-commission Festival Milano Musica and Festival Musica in prossimità

Live recording @ Fabbrica del Vapore, Mllan | May 26th 2023 | Festival Milano Musica

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 [Excerpt]

I've already posted a downloadable excerpt from this recording, which is of the only performance so far of this piece (in February 2005, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka). Here it is in its entirety. I hope I won't get into trouble for posting it but how else is anyone going to hear this music? which was presumably the idea behind commissioning and performing it...

NO (2004) for orchestra

Performed for the Currents series in Brooklyn, Winter 2017 by Yarn/Wire (Russell Greenberg, Ian Antonio, Laura Barger, Ning Yu) 2 percussion, 2 piano/keyboards, electronics, feedback, mechanized marionette.

Different Fur

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra

小雨蛙 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841)
Huge density of this tiny frog chorusing like hell around a little pond in a little forest, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Also present, the 斑腿樹蛙 Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) invasive species in Taiwan.
The site is located near little factories and roads, the background noise hasn't been filtered.
Recorded with two Sennheiser MKH40 and Zaxcom Maxx.
20/03/2020

Till human voices wake us and we drown (2021)

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