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Title: Und ich atme noch immer (Erinnerung an ein Liebesgedicht)

Conducted by Santiago Padilla

Mezzo-soprano: Camille Primeau
Alto Flute: Maïa Huet
Bass Clarinet: Felix Martl
Viola da Gamba: Alena Kiszter 
Accordion: Filip Novaković

Und ich atme noch immer (2023)

"Silenti i fili tra i rami" (Silent the thread among the branches) is the result of the first experiments on relational elements inside a system, with a strong improvisational/aleatoric character in the material production. The performers listen to each others, and in accordance to what they hear, they read parts of a score that acts as a suggestion, made of fragments that they need to analyse, understand, and memorise before the performance. 
The electronic, not alien of the system, acts as an environment, that changes its characteristic in a chaotic way that is influenced by the passage of states of the piece. The performers are invited to draw inspiration from it, thus creating a structural exchange between the various parts. 

In "A più fronde" (with multiple leafy branches), the system Silenti is multiplied by two. Finding inspiration from "The Mushroom at the End of the World" By Anne Tsing, I asked myself: what does it happen if we scale a system? Are its characteristics staying the same, or we even see the emergence of new ones? Furthermore, specifically on chirality: what is the role of spacial disposition of its elements? 
The uploaded identity is one of the possible, with the two dyads in a crossed disposition. 

In the two not scaled versions, we can listen to Mathilde Lettinga at the basset horn, while respectively for each, Jasperina Verheij and Marie-Pia Le Bouteiller at the soprano recorder.
In the scaled version, we can listen to Mathilde Lettinga at the basset horn, ChangHan Huang at the tenor saxophone, Jasperina Verheij and Lara Makolle Mbella at the soprano recorders.

Silenti I Fili Tra I Rami - A Più Fronde

for Ensemble
Ensemble Suono Giallo
Michele Bianchini    Sassofono
Andrea Biagini        Flauto
Laura Mancini        Percussioni
Simone Nocchi        Pianoforte
Giacomo Piermatti  Contrabbasso

Come impeto qui ed all'interno, dove altrove solitudine

IL FONDO A CUI RICHIAMARE IL MOTO DEL PETTINE (1994-1998 | Rewriting 2008) 
For flugelhorn and cello

ENSEMBLE HN 
Sergio Montemagno, flugelhorn 
Cristina Abati, cello 

Recorded live at QUAD Project | by FOSCA.net
FAF Florence Art Factory | Sesto Fiorentino (Italy) | 17 October 2009
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«Ma perché non proprio il proprio
nodo di senso
come spazio primo da crescere?
Che poi lo stesso slittare centrifugo
fa ristagliare, per fresco contrasto,
il fondo a cui richiamare il moto del pettine»

© 1994 Dario Buccino

Il fondo a cui richiamare il moto del pettine (2008) | Flugelhorn, cello

What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024) for viola, soprano and objects.

Premiered on 11.2024 at the Festival Trieste Prima
Performance of this recording on 12.2024 at the Festival UdineClassica
Recorded by Roberto Borin

Performers:  Paolo Fumagalli (Viola)  Giulia Zaniboni (Voice) 


“What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow” is taken from a poem by Ocean Vuong, in which grief and memory take shape in the image of the snow. The title of this piece already contains all the textual and phonetic material of which it consists. The text, in fact, is not enunciated, but emerges and dissolves in the phonemes of the letters in which it is immersed, through a vocality that is sometimes ambiguous, muffled, mimetic, sometimes pure and crystalline. The listening oscillates between the perception of the meaning of the text and that of pure sound, in this constant exploration of which the voice becomes the medium.

What we'll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024), for viola and voice

Musical piece composed for the residency Prospettive Sonore, held in Udine within the seasonal program Nei Suoni Dei Luoghi (Udine, 2021). The musical piece reports sound excerpts of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia soundscape recorded during the residency.

Luca Danieli, composer & live electronics
Giovanni Mancuso, conductor
Luisa Valeria Carpignano, piano
Valentina Danelon, violino
Davide Martiello, moog guitar
Cristina Scapol, clarinetto
Gaia Sessa, arpa
Alessio Ghezzi, percussioni

Tra Ercole e Caco

Desert 1 interlude

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Premiered on 18.05 at Studiottantuno, Mantua 
Performance of this recording on 28.05 at Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo 
Performer: Roberto Enea Varalta (Percussion) 
Recorded by Lorenzo Arioli
Technical support and 3D print preparations: Fabio Machiavelli



“Bagliori” is a piece that reflects on brightness, transparency and shine. Sudden explosions of light find a musical correspondence in the sounds produced by metallic and high-pitched instruments, which create bright and shining sonorities. This exploration comes from the urgency to express musically a visual and sensorial world that I absorbed from the places where I grew up - in South Italy - made of rural and bare landscapes, bright, raw and essential.
In doing this musical research, I prepared the instrument, thanks to the help of composer and researcher Fabio Machiavelli, by incorporating supports for microtonal wah-wah tubes into the structure of the vibraphone itself and giving the performer the use of a mouth harmonica and some bells, which enrich the timbral palette.

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Lullaby of Birdland (for solo alto saxophone) from Shiri Riseman (1992) was composed in 2023 as part of the project le moment dansa : the moment will dance, which was premiered in August 2023.

The project was a collaboration of eight composers, two visual artists, four musicians and one sound engineer and the inspiration was born from the painting Le moment Dansa of the Dutch painter Bram D‘Hont. 
The painting consists of eight different colours, and each colour is representing one philosophical field. 

Shiri was representing the field of contemplation, the purple colour.

This audio is a live recording from the 1st of July 2025 as a part of the concert Neizgovorjena, organised by the saxophone quartet Roya.

Shiri Riseman - Lullaby of Birdland (for alto saxophone solo)

Composer:  Parsa Zandi
Performed by:  Sepia Ensemble
Conductor: Julia Claver Pater
At Poznań Muaical Spring Contemporary Festival in Poznań,  Poland. 



"Rue de Minuit" (2025) for 14 Musicians | Sepia Ensemble

✍🏻 Composer
🇦🇹 Graz Kunstuni - Composition student
🎓 Classical Piano
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Und ich atme noch immer (2023)

Luca Bardelle