Natura viva con glissandi I

"Natura viva con glissandi I" is a part of a cycle of three pieces for strings and piano duos awarded the 2nd prize in the "15° Premio Trio di Trieste - Coral award International Composition Competition" in Trieste (Italy). 
The original core of all pieces is a musical and instrumental gesture: the glissando. 
The compositional research focuses on the possible articulations of this gesture: the challenge is to simulate in the writing of the piano part, whose frequency range is definitively discretized, the perception of a continuous space in the interval mouvements, possibile by nature with strings. 
The conception of the instrumentation is not as a duo in the classical sense, but a single hyper-instrument, whose two components expand their technical and expressive ways of playing through mutual integration and assimilation processes.