Finesterrae (2016) 
for five voices, viola (also electric viola and viola d'amore)
and live-electronics
The title is a neologism (the ends of lands/earth)and is based on text fragments by Tommaso Campanella (1568 – 1639). This work is conceived to precede a work for 32 voices (Anteterrae, composed in 2005 also on texts by Campanella).
In this work for five voices and viola (one performer playing also electronic viola and viola d'amore), moments with live-electronics and/or amplification are alternated to acoustic sections, giving an impression of a constant change of space, of perspectives (sound-sources closer or far, moving or not moving).
Two main parts in form of short movement succession (FINIS I and II, consisting of very different sounds and gestures), are followed by a section where voices produce noises, ideally like single words stretched in time. Within this part, three acoustic sections featuring viola d'amore and countertenor project drastically the atmosphere into an unreal world, made of archaic timbres and voices.
The very last part of the work (LUMINA) opens to an ephemeral, suspended world, where tiny vocal sounds (imitating nature noises like wind or water) are flowing parallel to the resonances of the last viola ricochet.

04 Finesterrae - FINIS I - Planctus II

03 Finesterrae - FINIS I - Abyssus I - Mors I

02 Finesterrae - FINIS I - Terrae I

01 Finesterrae - Antelogos

We live in a world that influences us through the sense organs. ELICA is a research project that uses an original improvisational technique to allow each musician to generate sounds by carefully listening to the world around him, not only using the hearing organ, but also all his sense organs.

SMELL.

SIGHT

TVS in a  Live performance of Mineral Minds Extended for flute, live electronics and fixed media at Audio Art Festival 2017 in Krakow (Poland).

Mineral Minds Extended Live at Audio Art Festival, Krakow.

'Okiku' is named after the Japanese legend of Okiku, a servant girl who is deceived by the samurai of her master. Once Okiku has repeatedly refused his sexual advances, the samurai resorts to threats and trickery to instil her as his lover. Eventually, an exasperated Okiku throws herself into the well, choosing death over the compromise of her morals. Her ghost is said to haunt the well of Himeji castle. 

Without touching on any of the explicit narrative elements of Okiku, this musical piece is rather an exploration of human consciousness once it loses its physicality. In Japanese folklore, spirits will only remain in the physical world after death if a strong emotion traps them there. While vengeance and betrayal are mostly what drives Okiku's spirit in the tale, the musical piece 'Okiku' follows her spirit on a journey of reflection and forgiveness, as it prepares to leave the physical realm.

Recording developed as part of a residency with AiR Niederösterreich, 2021.

Recorders - Emily Bannister
Classical Guitar - Andrea Guterres
Electronics - Andrea Guterres

Okiku (for recorders, classical guitar, and electronics)

Something!

A live electronics.

Electric bass + Electronics

Tempesta

Australian musician with a specialisation in electroacoustic composition, immersive soundscapes, and multimedia projects. Get in touch for collaborations:
andreaguterresmusic@gmail.com

TVS is a musical project born in 2018 to create an interaction between traditional instruments and electronic music, through live performances and compositions of experimental / ambient / dark ambient music.

Teresa Virginia Salis aka TVS: Flutist, composer, performer.
After a classical music education, found her way into contemporary and electronic music, instrumental improvisation, creation of sound environments for literary readings, soundtracks and projects involving various disciplines of art.

Her music combine experimental, atmospheric and synthetic sounds in a Dark Ambient sonority with touches of Deep Techno.

Info and contacts:
tvs.flute@gmail.com

TVS - Chrysalism Ep (Secuencias Temporales 2020)
https://formaviva.com/secuencias_temporales/st011
https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/album/tvs-chrysalism-st011

The works of the composer and conductor, Valerio Sannicandro, are the product of different cultural influences and of his own reflections about the parameter 'space' that he researches consequently, first as compositeur associé at IRCAM (Paris), then at the Technische Universität (Berlin) where he got a Ph.D. in Musicology and at Experimentalstudio (Freiburg). Compositions like Strali (2002), Fibrae (2005), Ius Lucis (2006/2007) and Forces Motrices (2010) are the most outstanding examples of his interest in large orchestral instrumentations, as well as of his concern with the role and the aesthetic of (live) electronics. He is currently working at Experimentalstudio of SWR (Freiburg) on Finesterrae, a new work for voices, viola and live-electronics. He has been awarded among others the Claudio-Abbado Prize from the Academy of Berlin Philharmonics in 2014, the Musica Viva Composition Prize, München in 2002 and 2010, the Giga-Hertz production Prize as well as the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (2000). His works have been recorded on CD for Wergo and Telos Music Records. He has been invited at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) and is new music advisor at the Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus (Germany). His works are published by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni (Milan).

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