LYRICÆ by IRIDE PROJECT

Language: Italian
Online, full English translation via QR code printed on the cover

<<Words find it hard to break through the barbed-wired enclosure of music, which is dissonant and discontinuous, stopping and starting again like a slowed-down pulsating heart. The poetry ensues and has a very strong scent of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.
'Man is an insect and I am like the cicadas' says the Voice in a key-metaphor, for cicadas surface every seventeen years, whereas insects busy themselves each day, droning their way towards death. Not so the Voice, the depressive who only resurfaces periodically from his self-made prison in which he leads a solitary existence. The slow-paced verse-and-music duet allows the listener time to ponder on the meaning of an otherwise challenging text>>
"Alexandru Maniu, Timișoara Portable Theater"

From a musical perspective the sound is entrusted to an analog modular synthesizer system and pre-recorded samples of flutes, violin, cello and random percussion. Both samples and the narrating voice are manipulated through filters and modulators of the same analog modular system.
The music is a further narration rather than an accompaniment and it lives on the restlessness of a bipolar character oscillating between apparently soothing and clearly harsh sounds.
The compositional process recalls the structure of Forma Sonata throughout an hour-long continuous flow from Exposition to Development to Recapitulation and Coda. Once exposed, the initial sonic fragments are developed by germination, agglomeration and mutation; they come and go like memories of an insistent and corrosive past. Then they are resumed and mixed up to give way to new sonic fragments that, this time, do not evolve as to represent no longer the past that has been elaborated on a mental level but the unalterable present, suddenly perceived but not accepted. Once the narrations begin the music sections between Lyrics materialise as Bridges and even though they are part of a fluid sonic continuum they maintain their own structure. The four Lyrics and Epilogue become Movements, the Exposition becomes Overture and the hour-long work can be now seen as Sinfonia (Greek: “Sound”). The circle is closed, Lyrics and Sound live the life of each other.

IRIDE PROJECT is a duo that has dedicated itself for years to research electronic music, and radio dramas. In addition to broadcasts of the radio program “Nova” on the Lyric FM of the Irish national radio RTÉ, their works have been performed in Italy, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Czech Republic , Spain, Ecuador and Ireland.

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