TransScriptio, für Violine und Elektronik

The essence of all writing (écriture), in the etymological sense of the Latin word scriptura, is the processuality, the elaboration of the structural and structural data which cohabits the space of the creation with the affections whose amalgama determines the essence of the music: a kind of mathematics of the affections. To any musical scripture – that it is more or less distant from the notation – thus subsists an action of writing, the course of road of any elaboration. It is to this original meaning, to the root of this action of writing that the title of this work refers: Scriptio = action of writing, or – through a neologism in English – scription (neologism in Portuguese: escrição).

The composition Scriptio was conceived as part of a project I designed for the Studio PANaroma de Música Eletroacústica da Unesp (São Paulo State University), which envisaged compositions for solo violin and live electronics, originally for a French violinist. The piece was conceived as an autonomous piece for solo violin and can be played as such, but its birth was thus motivated by its "double", what it's all about here: TransScriptio for violin and live electronics, totally composed after Scriptio. If the title Scriptio exists in Latin, the word TransScriptio is a neologism: although it refers in a certain sense to the act of transcription (transcriptio, in Latin, with one S), the title wants to evoke a trans-gressive action in relation to Scriptio: Trans-Scriptio.

In any case, the composition Scriptio remains totally independent from TransScriptio, while the composition TransScriptio can also be played separately and autonomously, but ideally it should be preceded by Scriptio (either directly, or with an intermission or with other pieces in between).