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In my music, I search for balance between polar-harmonic made relations, avant-garde formal approaches, orchestration extending techniques and thematic handling of musical material.
After the teachings of maestros Nicola Straffellini and Alberto Colla, I strongly believe in a nature-based structure of musical phenomenon. Sounds must entangle and combine themselves in a harmonic way. The logic of attraction between sounds as harmonic partial polarities is a physical evidence and reflection of the underlying foundation of many harmonical phenomena (not only sound related), forming the cosmos.
However, I also think that all historical evolutions of musical structures, from monodic chant to post-webernian serialism, must be included as an archetypical settlement in musical piece writing. Therefore, using scales and chords from a purely auditive tension-relaxation perspective, could give inner structural solidity to the music flow. We must not forget that music only flows in time, linearly, so structures such as similarities, melodic cellules and all the traditional inner genetic matrix of musical phenomenon cannot be set aside. This is the baseline for comprehension of a musical happening, in order to be understood by musicians and listeners.
Both of these pillars must be sustained by an orchestration able to underline and clarify the structure but in a perfect fit with the harmonic verticality. Extended techniques from the avant-garde conquests could help in that way: enlarge expression, sharpen pitch and magnify gesture as key roles in the score. I believe in using these techniques properly to define borders and perspective rather than per se, as a sensationalism and meaningless spectacle. Integration of these techniques with the traditional way of producing sound is my personal goal, to achieve a floating expressive and functional balance evolving in each piece. In this way the use of thematic cellules, rhythms or chords form a generating idea gives shape and meaning to all material. I deduce from a single “theme-cloud” all scales, chords and harmonic polarities of a piece, in a constant effort for coherence, holding onto the time flow of the music.
All of these characteristics give a clear traditional taste to each piece, enriched with a layer of glimmering complexity describing the overflowing contemporaneity of the over-input-environments we are living in.
Stefano Penazzi
La nuit de la mer
String Quartet2021
LA NUIT DE LA MER
The peace suggests the overwhelming sensation occurring at
the composer in observing the sea at night. Waves and the
dark impenetrable color of the water, full of dangers and
unknow. But, in a zoom out perspective the moon would
appear, self-reflecting with cold glimmering lights on the
agitated horizon in an aethereal aura of cold mystery.
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