Marco Quagliarini Riflesso portrait du compositeur Bergamelli Ensemble Dèdalo Parisi

Giving form to a compositional thought, only by entrusting it to the perception could be an even bigger utopian dream than being able to rationally grasp the original material. Is it really possible to express a perception? It is of no doubt that the knowledge of the sonic material must be the starting point. Marco quagliarini is the author of the book ‘Costruire la Musica’ published by Aracne, a book dealing with structural technique and the set theory by Allen Forte in his ‘The Structure of Atonal Music’. The novelty of ‘Costruire la Musica’ is to transform an analytic technique into a compositional tool: the knowledge of this material sparks the composer’s creative possibilities. Even without going into technical details, it is nonetheless fundamental to highlight the principle that enables such a change of view point: the analogy. Thus the composer faces a ‘new freedom of language’, a world of sounds bound by proportion of analogy and strong or weak simile. As the words used by a poet, not being literal translation of a thought; or colours for a painter, not just an imitation of nature; sound is now connected to the sphere of perception and goes beyond the sphere of senses and rational understanding.