Legatissimo / In termini estremi, Nº 2

Legatissimo is the second piece of the series for piano and electronics 'In termini estremi’, a set of works in a transcendental studies mode, in which the musical terminology and its semiotics are approached, elevating to the extreme its implicit rhetoric. Legatissimo reflects, dives, denies, sublimates the meaning of this indication of articulation; a character as recursive as unreal in the piano literature. Starts from the acoustic denial of a true legato on a percussion instrument, such as the piano, trying of reconstructing a gestural, temporal, structural, timbral, metaphorical legato. The electronics, in this case, allow us to distill those resources that historically have been so consubstantial as necessary to emulate the execution of the legato: the union of sounds by bending the pitch between notes, the absence of breath, the superposition of sounds between consecutive notes, inheritances of the bel canto and rubbed string instruments.