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Isoritmo / Alice's Fall

from Kugelf​ö​rmigkeit by Francesca Gaza

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“The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder about what was going to happen next.”
- Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865

The action in itself is rapid but the way it is depicted is so slow, it resembles the texture of honey which makes movement decelerate.
The possibly very dramatic fall is portrayed with surrealism; hence the anxiety of the danger is calmed and far away from the reader’s perception.
The double title suggests one of the influences on the piece: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, which is one of the evergreen books for kids and adults and known for his absurdity and riddle-like mathematical approach in the plot. At the beginning of the piece, I wanted to depict Alice’s endless fall through the Rabbit hole, in which the reader is catapulted together with her into a world that stands between reality, dream, illusion and mythology – Alice possibly being any character including myself.
On the other hand, one can feel a general sensation of rapidity as well.
The second influence is the Isorhythm, a medieval technique that plays with the sensation of time. It is a compositional technique developed in the 13th century, extensively used in French polyphony and developed until the 16th century, where a rhythmic pattern or number of attacks (talea) are overlapped with a different number of pitches (color). Guillaume de Machaut took great use of these techniques that resulted in one of his greatest works called “La Messe de Notre- Dame”.
The two Voice counterpoint between flute and voice, which is based on a counterpoint technique (Bicinium), extensively used by Orlando di Lasso in the 16th century, suggests the entanglement of the duality of thought.

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“You’re all I think of in this vast delusion of the constitution of silence, and I want to get by.”

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from Kugelf​ö​rmigkeit, track released April 23, 2021

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Francesca Gaza

Francesca Gaza (*1995) is an Italian/German singer, composer and pianist with romanian roots currently living in Basel, Switzerland.
As a bandleader, sidewoman and arranger she is working extensively in Jazz, Antique, Classical, Pop and Theater music and is part of both Basel's and Florence's vibrant art scene, regularly performing and collaborating with musicians from across Europe. ... more

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