Slow bats, moans, stalactites splitting ribs (2025)

World premiere: 22 October 2025, Leipzig, Germany / 23 October 2025, Dresden, Germany

Supported and commissioned by LEIPZIGSTIFTUNG in collaboration with Sächsischer Musikbund e. V. and Deutscher Komponist:innenverband

Dedicated to Letizia Turini and Albrecht Scharnweber (El Perro Andaluz Ensemble Dresden)

duration: ca. 15′

instrumentation: flute + dog whistle; clarinet + preparation

Program note
The narrative of the piece is that of a psychophysical memory made of fractures and fissures. It does not tell a linear story, but rather exposes a constellation of collisions, gestures, and resonances that intersect, overlap, fade, interrupt, and leave traces. Agonies that crash against each other, dense attacks, frictions, distant laments, and rips that produce striations coexist with oneiric-poetic atmospheres—arctic winds and crystalline stalactites—suggesting a kind of escapism within the violence of an unprocessed reality.
Some sections are entirely textural, while others are precise and violent. Facial expressions are not intended to be theatrical, but rather function as emotional extensions of the sound itself.