Broken Streams

per orchestra sinfonica (2023)

for Orchestra

Short instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 4 2 3 1, timp, perc(2), str

Duration: 8'

Instrumentation details:

1st flute

2nd flute (+picc)

1st oboe

2nd oboe (+c.a)

1st clarinet in Bb

2nd clarinet in Bb

1st bassoon

2nd bassoon (+cbsn)

1st horn in F (2 players)

2nd horn in F (2 players)

1st trumpet in Bb

2nd trumpet in Bb

1st trombone

2nd trombone

3rd trombone

tuba

timpani

1st percussion

2nd percussion

violin I (14 players)

violin II (12 players)

viola (10 players)

violoncello (8 players)

double bass (4 players)

Broken Streams

Work in progress

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Work introduction

Broken Streams was born from the reflection on the neologism nonplace of the French philosopher Marc Augè. This term was used to define those spaces that have the prerogative of being provisional and non-identifying: places of passage in which narratives begin and end, while the flows - vital, cultural and of any other nature – do not stop. They intertwine but do not overlap and can even be abruptly interrupted. The piece is characterized by a dense use of gestural counterpoint, contrasted - and sometimes superimposed - with long lyrical themes: this melody-gesture dualism is used to accumulate large tensive charges, which are repeated several times until reaching a real explosion of energy, in which all the instruments dialogue, creating scratchy and violent timbres. This proliferation of musical material - and the consequent saturation of the orchestral fabric - is followed by a section of sound rarefaction, in which a new structural element is introduced, which will open the finale, or coda, of Broken Streams.

Broken Streams

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Work introduction

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