Luciano Berio
Altra voce
Duration: 15'
Übersetzer: Talia Pecker-Berio
Text von: Talia Pecker-Berio
Instrumentation details:
alto flute
mezzo-soprano
live electronics
Berio - Altra voce for alto flute, mezzo-soprano and live electronics
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Altra voce for alto flute, mezzo-soprano and live electronicsOrchestration: for alto flute, mezzo-soprano and live electronics
Type: Stimmensatz
Language: Italienisch
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In one episode, namely “Il Campo” (The Field), from my azione musicale “Cronaca del Luogo,” there is a virtual love duet. Two voices and several instruments “fall in love” and follow one another in a constantly renewing relationship.
As we all know, in true polyphony each voice contributes to the whole yet retains its own identity, if not complete autonomy. In Altra voce I have liberated one voice (mezzo-soprano) and one instrument (alto flute) from the whole and developed their respective autonomies and harmonic premises by, among other means, using live electronics.
Luciano Berio
Programme note, Salzburger Festspiele 1999