Fly - Electronic Music For Accordion

Between the new and the familiar, the accordion is a young instrument. This is precisely why I believe it lends itself almost naturally, or rather vocationally, to experimentation. At the same time, it's place in the collective imagination, it's wide diffusion in popular and folkloric cultures, also make it a familiar, domestic instrument. This combination of familiarity and experimentation is, then, the inspiration behind the entire Fly. Electronic Music for Accordion project. New works for accordion and electronics aimed precisely at enhancing such duplicity: the feeling of familiarity and the disconcerting activation of the new. For this purpose, I involved some of the Italian composers among those I most respect, with whom I could establish a creative relationship that could lead to the development of particularly significant works featuring this instrument. At least in my ambitions and intentions. What the outcome will be is not for me to say. The fact remains that when a new work is born, especially one with some compositional weight, we are always faced with an event, the opening up of a world, which, however bewildering, or perhaps precisely because of this, proves capable of putting us in relation with ourselves and with the contemporaneity in which we live. Besides this, the choice of alternating the electroacoustic works with small pieces in terms of duration taken from the historical, classical literature to which we belong, is also intended to promote precisely the coexistence between familiarity and experimentation. A piece of easy listening, familiar, a prelude or postlude, as it were, in order to cleanse the ear, in some way to prepare it for a different kind of listening, that of electroacoustic music, which is complex and full of novel information, not familiar. Fragments of history, therefore, that intervene in the rhythm of listening, supposing a linear path, almost like recollections that assail the involuntary memory, to try to undergo an experience that allows us to achieve a relationship between reminiscence and the new. Germano Scurti