Macello

for fixed media

2017

Duration: 5'19''
Sound diffusion: stereo, octophonic

Macello starts from some excerpts taken from the collection of poems by Ivano Ferrari (Mantova, 1948), published with the same title by Einaudi in 2004.

 

Voice: Fabrizio Cruciani

 

The composition develops entirely from the reciting voice samples, as all the sounds are the result of it's elaboration. The search for an internal dramaturgy makes the three "stanzas" of the text correspond to three acoustic environments, linked by a narrative thread with the sound elements build, deny, alternate, add up, collide. The initial search for a defined vocality, a metaphorical search for the sense of the human, leads instead to the dissolution of the voice, a parallel to the dissolution of the element of humanity. The process of construction and destruction of the voice in its intelligibility has as its counterpart the emergence, at first avoided and then inevitable, of a resulting rhythm, even if inconstant and not coherent. In this dialogical relationship of tension, the resonances and formants of the voice are then used to set up an inharmonic background context, devoid of any hypothesis of tonal resolution, to arrive at a final scenario in which the "life that begins again" is totally transfigured and left adrift of uncontrolled and dehumanized developments.

Performances

05.11.2021 - eviMus, Saarbrücker (DE)
23.06.2018 - Verso la Meta Musica, Conservatorio G. Martucci, Salerno (IT).
09.10.2017 - Ver-v #3 Vox Electri, Auditorium del Conservatorio B. Marcello, Venezia (IT) *premiere