Shadow of Sound

Talking about my new work is equivalent to talking about a reduction of sound phenomena: in order to hear more, we need to enter into the shadow of sound.

Let it resound in space, in the silence where the last vibrations fuse, and most of all, let it resound in the mind. Make the audience ready for the sound that is about to begin before it does. The transfiguration my music wishes to obtain comes from a perceptive reset more than from a truly innovative sound: the new sound is not one never heard (because the human ear would be incapable of grasping it) but a new way of hearing what already exists, abolishing the habitual; the courage of oneself and of the other, awakening to a superior state of consciousness, through a language close to reality that shall disclose that state to us.

Salvatore Sciarrino