Duo Miroir (Valentina Oliveri, Angela Guasco)
Pinerolo - Accademia di Musica - 30 ottobre 2015
Ferran Cruixent’s “Binary” was commissioned by the ARD International Music Competition. The work is dedicated to a 56k Modem device.
“Binary” for two pianos is a one-movement work, inspired by the composer’s fascination about the dangers in human dependence in technological business, such as the obsession about media in today’s mechanized and computerized society. The name Binary refers to a digital representation of text and data, whose unit can take only two possible states. Binary code is a mathematical, technological language, developed by ourselves: an organic language that creates another to be described and discovered for itself. In this piece the players are asked to play in special techniques, such as “Cyber Singing” (introduced 2010 in composer’s symphonic work “Cyborg”). “Cyber Singing” introduces a new musical technique: the audio file prepared by the composer himself is played by the musician from his mobile phone, a device commonly used for other purposes. So, it defines a new possibility of interaction between the composer and the musician, attaining genuine communication itself.
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