04 Finesterrae - FINIS I - Planctus II by valeriosannicandro published on 2021-04-03T17:33:53Z Finesterrae (2016) for five voices, viola (also electric viola and viola d'amore) and live-electronics The title is a neologism (the ends of lands/earth)and is based on text fragments by Tommaso Campanella (1568 – 1639). This work is conceived to precede a work for 32 voices (Anteterrae, composed in 2005 also on texts by Campanella). In this work for five voices and viola (one performer playing also electronic viola and viola d'amore), moments with live-electronics and/or amplification are alternated to acoustic sections, giving an impression of a constant change of space, of perspectives (sound-sources closer or far, moving or not moving). Two main parts in form of short movement succession (FINIS I and II, consisting of very different sounds and gestures), are followed by a section where voices produce noises, ideally like single words stretched in time. Within this part, three acoustic sections featuring viola d'amore and countertenor project drastically the atmosphere into an unreal world, made of archaic timbres and voices. The very last part of the work (LUMINA) opens to an ephemeral, suspended world, where tiny vocal sounds (imitating nature noises like wind or water) are flowing parallel to the resonances of the last viola ricochet. Genre Classical