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Ivan Fedele
Arcipelago Möbius
(2004)
for cl., vl, vlc and cb.


Length: 20:00

According to what Fedele wrote, Arcipelago Möbius is a work for an unusual formation, as the string trio which accompanies the clarinet is composed of a violin a cello and a double bass. Nine formal island constitute the general structure of the piece and alternate with different timbric combinations, following criteria of continuity or discontinuity and depending not only on the different instruments used (all the instruments, three out of them, couples and solo parts), but also on the registers explored. The reference to the German mathematician Möbius allows the allusion to some of his geometrical figures, like the well-known "ring", which I used as inspiration, metaphor, imagination. This is why all the work tends towards a cyclical form in a wide sense of the word. It is a somewhat paradoxical cyclicity, that creates a texture of intermingling figures or timbres, so as from a perceptual point of view they tend to escape the notion of beginning and end, forming instead an ideal continuum, grasped in precise moments but never interrupted. The clarinet and string trio are often presented as two opposing entities: when they meet, a short circuit is brought about; a short-circuit that takes on a strong function as a formal signal, as a pivot temporel, which, by its repetition, marks the phrasing of the work. (Ivan Fedele)