Impulse II (1985)
for piano, violin, clarinet
By Luca Francesconi
Italian
Italian
The composition is an attempt to render, in the clearest possible way, and as perceptibly as a painter’s gesture, a process of transformation conducted on a single sweeping formal “bowing”. Here, instead of development, it is a question of almost physiological transformation. The sole intention of the beginning is to propose itself as a plain state of energy, as the search for a rhythm. The energy spreads, evolving gradually from the indefinite to the definite, then fades away and recedes always more in a grand rallentando of space and time. – LF
“It is thus possible to create a tradition that is held together by strict rules, and that is also successful, to some extent. But is it desirable to support such a tradition to the exclusion of everything else?...These are questions I intend to ask...And to these questions my answer will be a firm and resounding NO.
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--Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method