Shimmering Landscapes

Year of Composition : 2022-2024

Instrumentation : Flute, Clarinet, Percussions (1 player), Piano, Violin & Cello.

Duration : 15' Ca.

Program notes :

The term harmonic fields - in Italian, Campi Armonici - is one that Luciano Berio often used to describe shifting harmonic areas that evolve over time. Although it originated as a technical concept, it has always held a vivid, imaginative quality for me. I began to picture these harmonic fields as landscapes: spaces that shift and reshape themselves, revealing new contours as they unfold.

This idea became the foundation of Shimmering Landscapes. The piece is built from a set of harmonic cells, each one assigned to a specific register within the ensemble’s overall pitch range. As the music progresses, these harmonic fields gradually transform. By the end, the field that once belonged to the highest register has settled into the lowest, and the one that began below has risen above, creating a quiet sense of migration.

The years I spent living in the Netherlands deepened this imagery. The dunes, beaches, and meadows - landscapes marked by subtle motion and constant change under wind and light - offered natural parallels to the musical processes at play. Each movement draws inspiration from one of these places, using the evolving Campi Armonici as its main structural and expressive thread.