ZONE-Alp, Würzburg

Flammabis Musiktage 2011 

Würzburg, 7.11.2011 20.00Uhr 
Medienpartner Bayerischer Rundfunk 

Kammermusiksaal 

Hochschule für Musik 

• Hubert Hoche, X-Way, Fl., Perk.

• J. Sanchez-Verdu, Dhatar, 

Git., Akk.

• Keiko Harada, Book1, Akk.

• Steve Reich, Vermont Counterpoint, 

Fl., Tonband

• Maurizio Pisati, ZONE-Alp, 

Bassfl., Git. 

• Johannes F.W. Schneider, Cosm

 UA, Fl., Git., Cajon 

• Detlef Heusinger, Noeme, Fl., Git.

• Trevor Baca, L‘archipel Du Corps 

UA, Fl., Git., Akk., Perk.

Carin Levine Flöte, Marta Klimasara Percussion, Stefan Hussong Akkordeon, Jürgen Ruck Gitarre 

ZONE-Alp is a transcription -better should be “translation”- of Alp, a previous piece for Guitar and Double bass Recorder. 

Alp is part of the multimedia opera Theater of Dawn, and ZONE-Alp is almost a simultaneous translation, a real-time translation written for the premiere of this piece in Tokyo, 1999, performed by Elena Càsoli, Guitar, and Manuel Zurria, Flute. This nocturnal transcription is dedicated to them. 

Theatre of Dawn is a a fantasy theatre imagined in one of these abandoned mountain houses -old constructions of stones and wood, bilded up by shepherds or miners- somewhere in the mountain sides between the borders of Italy with France, Switzerland, Austria. 

In that hour when it is not yet day, but it is not night anymore, seven “spirits” of alpine legends meet in one of these houses: an undefinable moment between night and dawn. 

Alp is one of these spirits: he acts as an intruder through little holes of the wooden house and, once he is inside, if the hole is closed he never gets the way to leave. These Alps can cry in a very compassionate way, but they never stop with their spiteful attitude. 

Sometimes one can hear them, outside of his house, disturbing with strange noises or touching and moving things.

M. P.  November 1998