For Piano and electronics

2017

Written for Rei Nakamura – movement to sound, sound to movement

Cortex displays a surface capable of hiding and uncovering sound particles. In its evolution objects are amalgamated, they arise, or sink, generating layers in which different conditions of fusion between piano and electronics are manifested. Glittering layers of texturized dry sounds in the foreground fuse into a deep resonant background to emerge in the surface with different shapes and timbers.
The particles explore the acoustic limits, with instances of total immersion, in which the crescendo gradients are interspersed with subtle materials to play with a linearity that is not logical but sensitive. The objects can be recognized individually, but they transcend their particularities thanks to the logic of the relations between them and the surface. From this operation results the tension and cohesion of the work as a whole.