If it was a forest
(2023)
If it was a forest explores the nuance of the hypothesis: if it was a forest, what voice would it have? What would it tell us? How would it speak to us? This piece for instrument, recorded voice, and electronics is dedicated to celebrating life and nature.
The philosopher Emanuele Coccia lent his voice to the recording of his own texts (extracts from "Metamorphoses," "The Life of Plants," "Sensible Life"), which intertwine with the music and field-recording sounds.
The different sound worlds metamorphose into one another: nature sounds blend with instrumental sounds, and vice versa. Through a mimetic process, everything transforms into a single voice, almost a chant. Beauty lies in the border, which, while delimiting the various species of life, refers them back to a single common source, the nature we inhabit.
Instrumentation
| clarinet & electronics |
Duration | 35 minutes |
Commission | Ensemble 2e2m |
Texts | Emanuele Coccia (The Life of Plants: a metaphysics of mixture, Metamorphosis, Sensible Life: a micro-ontology of the image) |