Marta Gentilucci, Tutt'occhi for Contralto, ensemble and live-electronics (2010-11)

"…Tutt'occhi" for Contralto, ensemble and live-electronics (2010-11) 10'
Sound as a bodily experience is deeply connected both to my musical world as a composer and to my initial musical training as soprano. The voice is the natural connection between sound and the sound of words. Over the course of the last few years, my collaboration with the poet Elisa Biagini has been very inspiring. Her work is characterized by a fragmented, but intense and self-contained language: throughout her collection of fragment-poems, words build a path, forming a continuous and twisting net. This apparent contradiction between the discontinuousness of the fragments and the continuity of the relationships between words has much to do with my compositional world. Therefore, I wanted to use one of these fragments as a structural backbone and as a seed for further ramifications. These ramifications are not only an inspiring poetical image while composing, but also, principally, a very concrete image of a real space and the possible development of the sonic potential. The word-sound does not spread out in a linear way, but it expands in different directions, in disparate layers of the structure: the structure of the piece, of the space, of the sound projection, of the ensemble, and of the electronics.
Angelica Cathariou, Kostas Tzekos (cl), Ilias Sdoukos (va), Maria Anisegou (c), Marinos Tranoudakis (perc)
Performed on Friday 19/9/2014, at Onassis Cultural Center in the frame of ICMC-SMC 2014 (https://www.icmc14-smc14.net/).