Conca reatina

Conca reatina - Möbius Strip , composed between 2015 and 2017, was commissioned by Claude and Odile Delangle. The work is freely inspired by the inimitable curves that describe the mountains and hills of the
Reatini Mountains, Italy. It was during several stays in the city of Rieti, where I could see from my window the crests of these mountains, undulating like sonorous arabesques, that the idea came to me. It is a very virtuoso piece, whose main idea is neither a theme nor a motif, but a gesture describing a Möbius strip, a sonorous course, which constitutes the vehicle of the musical movement. Continuous or formed of discrete elements, this trajectory undergoes numerous metamorphoses throughout the work, until it becomes periodic, broken or completely blurred, at the risk of being lost. By analogy with the famous ribbon, the listener is tirelessly brought back to his starting point, with the difference that this initial moment is always pushed further back, as if the ribbon itself were put into perspective. The sound path sometimes imitates itself, thus dialoguing with its echo, but always rediscovers the momentum, the jubilation and the vital surge which form its identity.

Premiere on November 18, 2017, as part of the Ciclo de Conciertos de Música Contemporánea of the Buenos Aires Contemporary Music Festival, by Claude Delangle.