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Marco Momi
Hox on Beckett
(2003)
for vl, vla, ob and cl. b.


Length: 05:30
Editor: Edizioni Nuova Stradivarius

The idea of Hox on Beckett (for violin, viola, oboe and bass clarinet) arose when I started mixing ideas from my research about the musical implementation of biological processes and a short poem by Samuel Beckett.
Both concepts merge into a poetic founded on "immanent naturalism" characterized by an overall limited presence of strongly expressional gestures, where the processes and structures used in the work are fused with the poetic core of the piece.
The poem turns into a sort of human being, which is born, grows and dies, and all phases are recorded in his DNA: phonemes.
"Hox" is the "regulator gene" of morphogenesis. The system it uses to organise the development of the human being is reproduced in the piece aiming to realize a sort of evolutionary paradigm.(Marco Momi)