Friction (2007) for cello and live electronics

Friction comes up as an investigation on the relationship between the idea of "force of friction" and the idea of "incorporeal event at the surface". Events are like crystals, they grow and develop only by the edges, on the edges and proceeding along their surface the transition takes place from bodies to the incorporeal thin vapor which runs from the bodies, volumeless film that surrounds them, mirror that reflects them, chessboard that plans them. With these words Deleuze encases Carroll's Through the mirror and similarly, in Friction, the substantial difference between "events" and "things" is reflected in the continuous changing/repeating of objects which undergo insisting micro-variations and fall aprey to oblivion: oblivion, amnesy and astigmatism are the compositional technique to pursue extasy, intended as absence of weight. (September 2007)

Friction was commissioned by FESTIVAL TRAIETTORIE 07 - XVII Rassegna Internazionale di Musica Moderna e Contemporanea - Parma (Italy)

First performance: 28 September 2007 h9pm, Teatro Farnese, Parma (Italy) Nicola Baroni, cello Marco Marinoni, live electronics

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