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Francesco Giomi
Arrisi
(1998)
(studio personale)
for Tape


Length: 08:00
1� Performance: Conservatorio di Musica - Firenze - 06/1998

Sardinia is a region rich in traditions and popular culture. An important aspect of Sardinian musical tradition is the manufacture of musical instruments which goes back to their use in shepherd work contexts; another aspect is the strong presence of specific musical forms as, for example, several types of popular dances. he sound material of the composition comes from two different sources: 1) contemporary poetry in Sardinian dialect; 2) Sardinian traditional instruments: various percussion and launeddas (a typical polyphonic instrument consisting of a group of three natural reeds played using the technique of circular breathing). The texts are excepts from a series of poems of the collection "Perdas" by the contemporary traditional poet Faustino Onnis: in particular the poem Si tui arrìsi (If you smile) has been used together with other verses read by Alfonso Spiga. Arrisi is a personal and particular way of interpreting Onnis' poems. The piece moves by contrasts more than by assonances, showing the rare "flames of sound" over a texture which is thick and fragmented at the beginning, and becomes more and more involved with the acoustic-symbolic value of the words: a sort of imaginary search for a lover's smile. (F. Giomi)