Nicola Campogrande
150 Decibel
für Viola und Klavier
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Nicola Campogrande
150 Decibel
für Viola und Klavier
- Instrumentation Viola and Piano
- Composer Nicola Campogrande
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Breitkopf & Härtel KG
- Order no. EB9573
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Description:
This work was inspired by a recently rediscovered series of photographs taken by radio operator and photographer Amedeo Verri during the First World War. What struck me most was the positive energy emanating from the young men sent to the front. An energy that was sometimes relaxed, sometimes boisterous, but always proud - far removed from the cliché of trench warfare through which we usually imagine the soldiers of the First World War. Of course, the pictures show uniformed soldiers surrounded by guns, mud and grenades. But in front of the photographer's lens, they also appear as proud members of a military band, drying themselves in the sun with a smile on their faces after a dip in the river, happily posing with local peasant women or holding a guitar in their hands ... I therefore had the feeling that my score - a tribute to the protagonists of the First World War - should try to capture this youthful vitality and reflect it in a contemporary soundscape: Where once there was a brass band, today there could be a DJ or a pop or rock group on the front line; every soldier would be holding a smartphone and thinking in terms of hyperlinks; every gesture would be characterized by speed - and so on.
At the same time, I thought about the sheer sonic violence of combat and the sound of firearms, which can reach up to around 150 decibels at close range with modern weapons. Using this figure as a title seemed an apt reference point for the performers, as this piece demands a truly extreme volume level in its most intense dynamic passages.
(Nicola Campogrande, May 2015)
At the same time, I thought about the sheer sonic violence of combat and the sound of firearms, which can reach up to around 150 decibels at close range with modern weapons. Using this figure as a title seemed an apt reference point for the performers, as this piece demands a truly extreme volume level in its most intense dynamic passages.
(Nicola Campogrande, May 2015)