"Pasacalle para Funes" for wind orchestra

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Alessandro Perini
"Pasacalle para Funes"
for wind orchestra
(2011)

Stockholms Läns Blåsersymfoniker
Michael Bartosch, conductor

Stockholm, Nybrokajen 11
March 25th, 2011


The figure of Funes, the protagonist of Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes el memorioso, is considered by the author himself a sort of paradigm of analytical thinking. Due to his extraordinary memory, Funes can remember everything he sees, in any light condition, time, or from any point of view. But his memory is so strong that he stores in his mind the many visions he has of the same objects as referred to different objects, and not to different occurrences of the same object. This faculty actually represents a big problem for him, since he cannot make use of the platonic concept of "idea". Due to this lack of abstraction, he can't make use of any ability to produce syllogisms; he rather holds in his mind an enormous amount of data.
In Pasacalle para Funes a mass of vertically (synchronically) superimposed materials, perpetually rotating in their construction, creates a sort of cubist world, a catalogue of points of view on the same object, where the perpetual rallentando is a kind of zoom that lets the listener analyse the details. An erosive process then gradually digs into this mass, transforming it into a diachronic material, a metaphor of synthetic thinking, while windows on the original material are opened here and there. This way, the cubist, analytical approach is compared at the same time with a teleological, arrow-shaped one, but both are applied to the same material.

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Music

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• wind band
• swedish wind ensemble
• contemporary music
• jorge luis borges
• nybrokajen 11