". . . d'un archétype métallique" (2017)

for eight instruments and live electronics

Premiere performance:

May 1st, 2018
Columbia Composers Concert series 2017
DiMenna Center for Classical Music,
New York City, USA

Talea ensemble under the baton of Jeffrey Means.

The piece addresses the coexistence of multiple acoustic and electronic sonic entities while it explores the relationship between instrumental and sound complexity. The framework of this project takes advantage of the technology and generates an electrified sonic world that counterbalances the acoustic complexities articulated by the ensemble. Metallic sounds, idiomatic frictions, granulated textures and chaotic microtonal clouds are some of the sonic entities interacting within a dramaturgical framework of intricate sonic interconnections and electrified acoustical masses. The generalized standpoint stems from the genesis of an electrified sonic world derived from the electronic processing of acoustic sounds that behave as the sonic extension of the instrumental ensemble in a unified way – the assembly of a “sonic twin”. The emergence of gestural interactivity pointing to an idiomatic stream of sonic behaviors captures the dramaturgical framework of the piece, highlighting a network of distinguishable sonic objects all perceived in a unified sonic fabric.