Giulia Lorusso: Grain | Stream (2023)

Giulia Lorusso (*1990)
Grain | Stream, for two pianos, two percussionists and electronics (2023)
Yarn/Wire
World Première, 22 October 2023, Donaueschinger Musiktage '23
The idea of stream recalled in the title, and central to the piece, has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie. It consists of two canvases showing a dry, desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falls down from the balance’s dishes. This is a strong symbol of a possible new life re-emerging from the desert landscape, which is directly connected to the art of alchemy - transforming lead into gold. On the other hand, streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time, leading one’s perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosened.
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