Ciclo Continuo
Ciclo Continuo (2021) for soprano saxophone & percussion: prepared snare drum, singing bowls, tuning forks, crotale.
Performed by Duo Dubois. Project More with less.
Composition Ciclo Continuo seeks to achieve a hybrid organic timbre while associating atypical instruments to complement each other. A snare drum is used as a resonating body for the objects. The snare drum’s wire also serves as a saturation effect changing the timbre of metallic instruments and also reacting to the saxophone’s sound. Dyads and multiphonics are predominant in the saxophone part while pitched, but very fragile and unstable sounds are used in the percussion section. Harmony is enriched with beatings creating synergy between musicians, unfolding timeless processes. The duo plays the cycle that is on loop, an endless repetition devoid of narration, a basso continuo of an unsung aria.
Originally written for the Duo Dubois European tour More with less in 2021, Ciclo Continuo was later part of Astrus Duo European tour in 2023 and in USA by Isotope Duo: Phil Pierick (sax) and Kyle Flens (perc).
Ciclo Continuo performances:
Isotope Duo: Phil Pierick (sax) and Kyle Flens (perc) at Constellation venue in Chicago.
Astrus Duo European tour:
2023.09.02 - Ermo do Caos, Porto.
2023.09.04 - Spazio Pontano, Milan.
2023.09.05 - Conservatorio Puccini, La Spezia.
2023.09.06 - Domus Ars, Naples.
2023.09.07 - Guzmán Gallery, Cagliari.
2023.09.09 - Open Catania, Catania.
Duo Dubois European tour:
2021.10.10 Teatro Massimo, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
2021.09.25 SMOG festival, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2021.08. Darmstadt Summer Course, Germany.
2021.06.11 TAVERNA MODERNA festival, Padova, Italy.
2021.06.02 LUND CONTEMPORARY biennale, Lund, Sweden.
2021.06.01 INTER ARTS center, Mälmo, Sweden.
