Commission: Radio France
Orchestra: 4.4.4.4. / 4.4.4.1 / 1 Timp., 3 Perc., 1 Pf., 1 Arpa / Strings (16.14.12.10.8) / Electronics
Broadcast date: from 31/08/2015 to 05/09/2015, “Alla Breve”
Come un lasciapassare talks about the passage from an acoustic to an electroacoustic world. Five short movements are laid in a symmetric correspondance: fifth movement is the purely electronic version of the first purely orchestral movement; second and fourth movements have the very same musical elements, yet the roles of electronics and orchestra are switched; third movement is the actual core of the piece, with a passacaglia slowly sliding from . In counterpoint, Shakespeare’s 123th sonnet:
No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange
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