Colosso

Youth windband

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Duration: ca. 5’30”

Year: 2017

🏆 Winner of the 2nd Prize of “Concurso de Composição para Orquestra de Sopros Juvenil Município de Lousada”

It all started with the inspiration I drew from Emmanuel Nunes’ work “Purlieu.” Each bar begins with a long duration, allowing a mass and harmony to evolve. I imagined that it would be perfectly possible to apply this to a children’s wind orchestra. I then wanted to add some techniques and other ideas, trying to create a work that was different from the usual repertoire on several levels, always with the concern that the musicians would free themselves from the usual preoccupation with technique and speed. The goal is that, with the ease of execution, they will be able to experience the fantastical world of timbres of the orchestra itself. Some techniques that are used:
– Tempo ad libitum;
– Clusters (if arranged in different octaves, they become atonal chords);
– Sound masses (trills, irregular tremolos);
– Ad libitum cell repetitions;
– So-called extended techniques (sound of keys, kiss on the mouthpiece, air sound);
– Loop techniques;
– Series of harmonics.
Regarding its structure and evolution, we can say that it begins with acoustically dissonant chords and clusters, passes through a brief interlude of extended techniques, and then culminates in a series of natural harmonics, the apogee of acoustic consonance.