Zone di confine
for five performers and sound recordings
piano, P.O.P.System (Piano Overtones Production System), midi instruments, percussion, guitar, voices, clarinet in Bb and bass clarinet.

programme:
- Frammenti dal labirinto for five midi instruments
- Una dolcezza inquieta for piano harmonics and sound recordings
- Dove amorose stelle concedono la felicitàfor soprano, counter-tenor, percussion and sound recordings
- Il nastro di Moebius for prepared piano, clarinet in Bb, percussion and sound recordings
- Un luogo colorato for one percussionist e sound recordings
- Frammenti dal labirinto for guitar, clarinet in Bb and midi instruments

duration: 1h approx.

Zone di confine was born thinking of the sounds of the world. It springs from the desire to unite various tensions and musical inspiration. The result is the creation of a vast and multi-coloured sound environment in which to find or recognize one's own path. In this concert the elaboration of sound is fused with a passionate research into musical instruments and voice.

I suoni nascosti
for two performers and electroacoustic elaboration

piano, P.O.P.System, voice, dijeridoo, bass recorder and midi instruments

programme:
- Cose di vento for flute (fl. in G and fl. bs), piano, P.O.P.System and electroacoustic elaboration
- I suoni nascosti for dijeridoo, diphonic singing, Jew’s harp and electroacoustic elaboration
- Il libro degli armonici for piano and P.O.P.System
- Una dolcezza inquieta for piano, P.O.P.System and electroacoustic elaboration

duration: 1h approx.

In a dark room a piano becomes a source of light as well as sound. Bright diaphanous stalactites jutting upwards are inserted between the strings. They are an indispensable setting to listen to the harmonic sounds, sounds hidden within other sounds. Audible, therefore only through a medium that highlights them, like the colours hidden within the light which are released by a crystal prism. This concert is a story of sounds created with tools and old and new techniques, the oriental technique of diphonic singing, which identifies the harmonics of the human voice, the distant sound of the Australian didgeridoo played with circular breathing, the tone and release of the countertenor-soprano  voice and the potential of electronic elaboration of sound. At the center of this tale a piano, prepared with the P.O.P.System, which gives a different voice and almost becomes a new instrument.

Il libro degli armonici
for piano, P.O.P.System e sound recordings

programma:
- Il libro degli armonici, I volume nn. 1-10
- Una dolcezza inquieta for piano, P.O.P.System and sound recordings
- Il libro degli armonici, II volume nn. 1-13
- Sottili veli di nebbia for piano, P.O.P.System and sound recordings

duration: 1h approx.

Il Libro degli Armonici is a collection of compositions for piano and P.O.P. System - Piano Overtones Production System. Composed mostly between 1994 and 2001, Il Libro degli Armonici is divided in two volumes, each of which uses special "tuning" data from a different sequence of harmonics. The first volume uses 23  prepared notes, the second uses 36. In the concluding two parts of each volume - Una Dolcezza Inquieta and Sottili Veli di Nebbia - plus electronic and concrete sounds. Una Dolcezza Inquieta  is the first work that uses the P.O.P.System. Composed in 1990 and dedicated to pianist Oscar Pizzo, it was inspired by a poem by Eugenio Montale (I Limoni da Ossi di Seppia -  Lemons from Cuttlefish Bones).

[…]
It would be best if the uproar of birds
fade as they are swallowed by the blue:
the clearer one listens to the whisper
of the friendly branches in the air that hardly move
and the sense of that smell
which cannot detach itself from the ground
and a restless sweetness rains in my chest.
[…]

Sottili veli di nebbia brings together in a vast electroacoustic ambient, five tracks of the second volume - Nos. 6, 5, 12, 3, 2 - each of which is dedicated to a different haiku, short poems in Japanese tradition.

1)
Oh owl!
change your expression!
This is spring rain.