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w a l l i n
onda di ghiaccio (1989)
Oslo Sinfonietta
Conductor: Christian Eggen
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This is my first attempt to use fractal mathematics in my music. The Italian title ("Icewave") emerged in the very end of the creation of the piece, and is only one of many possible titles describing a turbulent motion captured - or frozen - in a specific moment.
The notion of a wave stretched out to last 12 minutes has nothing to do with sound imitation. Instead I try to describe the dynamics of every turbulent process, be it in water, air or for that matter in our lives, where order, chaos, predictability and unpredictability give way for eachother in an everchanging pattern.