Con forza di gravità

Year: 2013

Commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Instrumentation: String Orchestra (6.5.4.4.2)

First performance by Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Alexander Liebreich - 29.01.2014, Konzerthaus Ravensburg (Germany)

Other performances:

• Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Alexander Liebreich - 30.01.2014, Prinzregententheater, Munich (Germany)
• Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Titus Engel - 26.03.2015, Schwere Reiter, Munich (Germany)
• Tonkünstler Orchestra - 26.08.2015, Grafenegg (Austria)
• Orchestre d'Auvergne, conductor: Roberto Forés Veses - 13.11.2015, Opera Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
• Orchestre d'Auvergne, conductor: Roberto Forés Veses - 05.04.2016, Sala Cecilia Meireles, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conductor: Enno Poppe - 21.01.2018, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin (Germany)
• ORF Orchestra, conductor: Ilan Volkov - 05.10.2019, Grazer Musikverein, Graz (Austria)
• Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Ilan Volkov - 16.02.2021, Jerusalem Theater (Israel)
• Israel Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Guy Feder - 02.10.2022, Elma, Zikhron Ya'akov (Israel)

Recording:

Note:
The imagined situation in which the piece takes place, is of a picture being painted while the ink and the canvas are made of inappropriate materials. Thus, the paint cannot attach to the canvas and the streaks of paint drip down immediately. The resulting painting is a combination of the artist’s intentions and the "natural" effects of gravity. Here, gravity enters the abstract world of sounds and becomes the main driving force of the piece and overshadows the original compositional intentions.