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LETIZIA MICHIELON

Sternbild - Dialectic Image for flute, clarinet in B flat, violin, cello and piano, 2018

Premiered in New York, Tenri Cultural Institute, by Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, 2018-Oct-26

Alice Teyssier, flute; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; Christopher Gross, cello; Blair McMillen, piano

«Image is the thing where the past conjuncts itself lightning-quick with the ‘now’ in a constellation»

(W. Benjamin)

Sternbild (Constellation) refers to dialectic image idea, introduced by W. Benjamin in his Passagenwerk. The skill to connect synchronously different temporal dimensions equates dialectic image to oneiric intuitions, evoking ancestral, unattainable distance.

Progressive approach to this originating constellation enlivens first section of the piece, that culminates in explosion of b. 21.

In the second part, the compositional texture fractures, destroying itself in instrumental gestures that reveals new freedom, thanks to timbres superimposition similar to hypnotic configurations drawn by Newton Circles of Frank Kupka.

A wave of energy springs from this disposition on the Open, eliciting echo of rebirth in the pulsating breath of the Nature.

(L. Michielon)

Thanks to WSCMS and Louis Karchin for the video