e/Requiem (Forlivesi)

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has gloss	eng: REQUIEM by Carlo Forlivesi is an 8-channel electronic music work composed in 1999 and subsequently revised in 2007. It is conceived as an acoustic rite, an electronic poem in three parts – Komm, Les pleurs and ( ) – separated by a period of silence. During a performance there is, in the darkness, an array of eight speakers with eight channels, to which correspond as many columns of light. It is requested that the composition end without applause. Through concrete and synthetic music this work comprises of a selection of the sounds, developed electronically, of ritualistic objects used in various cultures around the world: little bells, pipes, glasses, matches, a rain stick, a dobachi (a ritual Japanese instrument), together with a chord played on a baroque violin from the Passacaglia of Heinrich Biber. The central moments of Komm and of Les pleurs are, respectively, a reworking of the Motet BWV 229 by J.S. Bach (in retrograde and with altered tempo), which generates a syllabic though not textual signifier, and a quotation from a composition for viola da gamba of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe.
lexicalization	eng: Requiem
instance of	c/Compositions by Carlo Forlivesi