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ZEITC 014CD
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Osvaldo Coluccino follows his well-received 2010 contribution to Die Schachtel's Zeit Composer Series, Neuma Q (ZEITC 004CD), with a collection of his early (1997-2007) electroacoustic pieces. From the dark drones of "Dimensioni" (interspersed with the treated voice of Jacques Lacan), to the treated percussions of "Nell'attimo," to the acousmatic brilliance of "Dal margine," this CD is a journey into the brilliant head and the complex soul of one of the most interesting Italian contemporary composers, whose music is always on the edge, stretched between a flight toward a distant and bright horizon and a dive into the darkest obscurity. Osvaldo Coluccino (b. 1963) is a composer and poet. His compositions have been commissioned by Venice Biennale, Milano Musica, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and others, and have been performed in several festivals of classical and contemporary music. Monographic CDs have been released by Neos, Col Legno, Another Timbre, Rai Trade, and Due Punti. His works have been performed by many ensembles (including Ensemble Recherche and Nieuw Ensemble) and by several conductors and soloists. He has composed music since 1979, and has published several volumes of poetry since the early '90s.
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NEOS 11130CD
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2012 release. "Attimo" (Instant): The composition opens with an almost pointillist counterpoint that seals the idea of an instant in each and every note, at once a magnet and a catalyst. However, the piece is characterized by contrasting sections, whether passages of dilating chords or the prolonged central section, where rapid phrases in octave leaps, played lightly sul ponticello, with controlled pitch levels, intertwine and respond in all four voices. "Aion": "Aion" is the Greek personification of infinite time, a form of time that escapes the cage of quantification. The first section is a desert, a picture of oblivion within a liquescent flow of dust, at once dissonant and sweet. The non-discursive element combines with the precision of atonal intervals from changing nuclei. The instruments play almost entirely in dyads, multiplying the sound to an almost orchestral effect. In contrast, the second section deliberately interrupts the temporal flow. Here, in this second mode of "aggression" toward (and denial of) time, we hear islands of sound floating in the void, variations in formal structures that demand special virtuosity from the performer: rhythmic micro-fragmentations, tensions produced by subtle dynamics and special harmonics, rigorous conversations among the four musicians. "Talea" (Cutting): The title of this duet consists of a single word, but a word with semantic possibilities inherent in the duality (the contradiction is resolved by my concern to restore duality to unity). "Talea" refers to the birth thanks to a previous existence that has cut and reinserted itself. I touch only on its second, musical meaning. The piece falls into three sections. The first is a modulating continuum of disembodied, crackling, intermittent sounds generated as the two instruments create "haloes" by bowing col legno instead of with the hair of the bow. At a certain point the continuum is offset by solo micro-phrases. The central section consists of thin, isolated emissions in sidereal ambit. The third is an ecstatic and exotic symbiosis of duality into unity, a symbiosis devoted to a single pedal point in the background, on which golden threads slip past, wafted by breezes. Performed by the Quartetto d'Archi del Teatro La Fenice: Roberto Baraldi (violin), Gianaldo Tatone (violin), Daniel Formentelli (viola), Emanuele Silvestri (cello), with the participation of Achille Gallo (piano).
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ZEITC 004CD
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The new addition to the Die Schachtel Composers series, Osvaldo Coluccino's Neuma Q is an utter immersion into the purest electronic sound, exploring a broad spectrum of electroacoustic phenomena, low-end drone, magically-constructed and sequenced in a way that preserves its intimate feel. The composer serves as a seismograph of both the inner and the outer world and the composition as a record of a momentary musical horizon that combines four pieces that defy any standard modern music evaluation criteria and explore new spaces of sound. Osvaldo Coluccino (1963), is a composer and poet. His compositions have been commissioned by Biennale Musica (Biennale of Venice), Milano Musica (Teatro alla Scala), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI (RAI Nuova Musica), and Compagnia per la Musica in Rome, and have also been performed at several international festivals.
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