The EP "Utopia Aerial View" takes inspiration from the famous 1987 movie "Wings of Desire" a feature film directed by Wim Wenders.
Brief premise: last May, I was invited by Moog Music to create and perform a composition of mine at their exhibition area at Superbooth 22 in Berlin. Reflecting on the possible topics that might have prompted my imagination, I thought almost immediately of Wenders' film as a tribute both to the city that would host the performance and to the aesthetics of the film and the various suggestions derived from its vision.
I remember being struck by the aerial shots of the city, the dreamlike atmosphere of the whole work, and especially the consideration about childhood and children observing the world with eyes full of awe. Feeding the imagination and dwelling on the beauty around us is a fundamental thing, especially in our historical period, because I think that being able to be surprised by the world, even with its many contradictions, is one of the things that makes us truly human and brings us a little closer to the concept of "Utopia". Therefore, by drawing from memory the black-and-white fragments of the film and starting from this consideration, I thus composed the track Utopia III for the Superbooth and then the other tracks that make up the EP as well, letting the imagination flow freely.
The music is characterized mainly by dialogue between the violin and Moog synthesizers, especially the Grandmother, DFAM, and Subharmonicon. Indeed, I think Moog's synthesizers, with their warm and unique sound, are perfect for playing with strings. As a fan of small ensembles and chamber music, it was a fun and exciting challenge for me to translate that kind of writing for instruments that are generally associated with other genres of music. Thus, for example, the Subharmonicon reiterates bichords from where the entire structure of a track unfolds, thus imitating what two cellos would do, or the Grandmother performs minimalist cells that, intertwined with the melodic line of the violin, makes it possible to create an intense dialogue and exchange of voices between the various instruments.
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