HALLUCINATION

(dedicated to a singing great tit)

Music isn’t always a true reflection of life of the author: ephemeral facts, thoughts and feelings, as well as technical factors linked to used musical form at times can influence very much the style of a composition and the sense that it had. In fact this strange piece has been inspired from melodious and obsessive singing of a great tit, that has often accompanied me in the distance between house and work. A twittering constituted by an interval of octave (measure nr. 1), developed in triplets, that continuously was drumming in my head. In order to avoid the banality inherent in a such simple and tonal interval I have added to the insistent and repetitive rhythm of the guitar a sort of melody, exposed from violin, using a style that I would define not tonal rather than atonal. In fact, atonal music expresses the breach, the explicit negation (for example through very dissonant chords) of tonal system, that here instead is present through references, fragments, alienated from their natural context (the same part of the guitar is formed from a continuous repetition, with little changes, of 5 measures, that can appear like to a cadenza missing of the tonic resolution). As befits, on the other hand, every self-respecting hallucination, in which realistic fragments are combined in unreal and improbable ways. And it isn’t at all necessary taking hallucinogen substances in order to try the feelings that this piece expresses: the hopes, the waits, the unrealized desires sometimes are enough for giving the feeling that the same life is a tangle of facts without a sense.

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