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from Attraverso by Elijax

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Unquestionable Answers [English]

The piece is pervaded by a chorale played by strings, which expands and contracts. Some tinkling glockenspiels and heavily filtered white noise are added in the highest part of the spectrum. The elaboration of the parts generates tensive crescendos which culminate in explosions. The decays of the blasts are characterized by arpeggi of synthesized plucks, in stochastic major/minor chords. All the music materials are based on the tone row discovered by Anton Webern in his unfinished opus 32.
The title is a reversed quotation of Unanswered Question by Charles Ives. In my composition I testify the complete overturning of the meaning of Ives’ masterpiece. The contemporary human being can not ask questions, can not search for answers, can not pursue a higher meaning and can not seek for a teleological meaning of the existence. The real questions are banned. The answers are pre-established, inculcated in the masses and in every human being since its conception. While incapable of questioning, the contemporary human being must follow ready-made answers, with operose passiveness, as imposed by the contemporary society. We are running frantically in order to stay still while the universe and the immutable celestial stars evolve.
The piece takes inspiration from, and thus is dedicated to, Aldous Huxley (for his Brave New World Revisited) and to Giorgio Agamben (for his Homo Sacer).


Unquestionable Answers [Italiano]
I materiali si basano sulla serie dell’opera 32 (incompiuta) di Anton Webern.
Alla base del brano vi è un corale di archi, che si espande e contrae. Sul corale sono sovrapposti dei tintinnii di glockenspiel e alcuni rumori filtrati acuti. Dall’elaborazione delle parti acute sono generati i crescendi tensivi che culminano in esplosioni. Sul decadimento delle esplosioni vi sono degli arpeggi di sintetizzatori in pizzicato, generati dalla serie le cui note fondanti danno vita ad accordi maggiori e minori scelti stocasticamente.
Il brano si ispira a Unanswered Question di Charles Ives, ma testimonia con dolore il totale rovesciamento del suo contenuto. La musica vuole esprimere la condizione di impossibilità dell’essere umano contemporaneo di porsi delle domande e di cercarne delle risposte, di anelare a un significato superiore, di avere una visione teleologica della propria esistenza. Rappresenta la situazione attuale, dove le domande profonde e vere non sono ammesse. Le risposte sono precostituite, inculcate in ogni singolo individuo e nelle masse. L’essere umano deve seguire, con operosa passività, i dettami delle società contemporanee, correndo freneticamente per restare immobile. L’universo e le sfere celesti restano, immutabili.
Il brano è dedicato ad Aldous Huxley (in particolare Ritorno al mondo nuovo – Brave New World Revisited) e agli scritti di Giorgio Agamben (in particolare Homo Sacer).

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from Attraverso, released November 4, 2022

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Dr Elia Andrea Corazza (aka Elijax) is a conductor, composer, pianist and musicologist. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology and master’s degrees in pianoforte, conducting and composition. He studied conducting in Fiesole and Pescara (Italy), and at the Tanglewood Music Center (Lenox, MA, U.S.A.)
Elijax composed music for film, documentaries, short movies, advertising and dance halls. ... more

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