Noam Sheriff and the Haifa Sympony Orchestra perform
Noam Sheriff and the Haifa Sympony Orchestra perform
Al folle volo, for orchestra (2004) Al folle volo (“For our mad flight”) is based on a project of stratifications of timbrical layers; the compositional development is based on contrasts between sound materials and sound aggregations, based on relations of frequency, timbre and dynamics. The listener is involved by a grey and rough music, which project him in a far away and primitive dimension, at the borderline between sound and concrete matter. A specific attention, also in connection with the composition’s dramaturgical structure, is given to the performing technique of sounds production, using the microtonal “scordatura” of the strings and the woodwinds’ multiphonics. The title comes from the Canto XXVI of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, at the point when Dante and Virgil meet Ulysse’s soul wrapped in flames: “…And having turned our stern unto the morning/ We of the oars made wings for our mad flight,/ Evermore gaining on the larboard side”.