Salvatore Sciarrino ~ Frammento e Adagio - I

Frammento e Adagio
Salvatore Sciarrino
....For flute and orchestra....
I- Frammento

*RAI National Symphony Orchestra with Mario Caroli on flute*

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Music

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• Salvatore
• Sciarrino
• Music
• Flute
• Orchestra

[omgtkseth]

Not trying to be offensive, just being inquisitive. Why do people like Sciarrino? I guess his 'style' is quite recognizable, and I guess every composer should leave his recognizable fingerprint in all his works, regardless of how varied they are. And thats the reason I have not forgotten his name but his music I find it presence-less. I feel even Feldman's music has more body. I find it hard to even think about musicality, of intervals or rhythms, because the texture is so, er, uncommunicative?

[stanchinsky]

@omgtkseth Inquisitiveness is good for the mind.

I find it interesting that you use the term 'presence-less'; what you're pointing at may be the thing I enjoy most about his work; a sort of suspending...

[ArLeS9091]

This piece is all about timbric resarch

I do like it :D Thanks for uploading it

Who is the painting's author?

[omgtkseth]

@edoardomorellimusic Well thats the best word I found to describe what I feel are muffled and distant sounds, like the whispers leaves emit when thy fall to the ground in some dream full of echoes. I'll be sure to incorporate that use for presence in my vocabulary.

[edoardomorellimusic]

@stanchinsky It's funny because the term "presence" is usually used on electronic instruments to indicate a certain amount of energy in the highest frequencies...to my ears this piece is in full overload of presence due to constant overtones of the flute.

[WatchBlueSkies]

@omgtkseth Excuse me, mine is bad in English, but I try it:

His kind of composing, his marks in music is converted, like the forms of a sculpture. One could say, he lets the notes work for himself, a sound sculpture creates therefore, creates sound space, a sound form, and this can be very inspiring for creative artists in terms of sculptor and painter to create together with the paintbrush or the chisel to the sounds of the composer, to work, to be creative with the waves of the sounds.

[omgtkseth]

@WatchBlueSkies Im not accusing him of making noise and horrible music. I like a lot of modern music. Also, I believe I said that his style is very unique and distinguishable. I dont see how this is elite. Serialism requires a lot of good hearing, not many people can truly recognize the strict interval organization (I dont, a tad in Webern though), but I dont see Sciarrino as demanding or elitist.

Talking of paintings, I do know a sculptor that likes Sciarrino a lot. Is that a trend?

[omgtkseth]

@stanchinsky Indeed. I have my share of 'suspending' music, yet it is much more presence-full. Scelsi's Aitsi comes to mind. I just cant see the body in Sciarrino, comparing it to suspending music that also I dont like, Feldman's. Sciarrino is like fog to me. I guess I got accustomed to the neurotic suspension that hammers, so Sciarrino sounds like blurry distant quacks. But I'll have to listen to him more, since so many people like him and he keeps getting uploaded. Btw, thanks for the upload.

[WatchBlueSkies]

@omgtkseth I like Sciarrino, because he has that special style of noise and ambient, it is music for a small elite of listeners, if I would be a painter ( i am not) I think I would listen to Sciarrino while painting, free your mind :)