For one week, it is possible to listen to Almost Nowhere by Marco Momi on the SoundCloud page of the magnificent Ensemble Nikel. As far as I am concerned, it is one of the most beautiful pieces I have heard in recent years.
https://soundcloud.com/ensemble-nikel/marco-momi-almost-nowhere-for-sax-egtr-perc-pno-electronics-2014
ALMOST NOWHERE (2014) [26.00]
commissioned by Ensemble Nikel
world premiere 15_11_2014 Zurich - Tage fur Neue Musik
Instrumentation Saxophone, Piano, Percussion (1 player), Electric Guitar, Electronics (4ch. tape)
Almost Nowhere is part of a series (Almost) started in 2010 in which I am questioning my identity through a research on the proxemics of composing. The relationship with sound (grown in the Iconica series) remains as fingerprint and becomes a familiar and elective haven from which to start afresh. Following a line on the horizon that is far from habits, trying to reach what is pure, quiver, vanishing, or the recollections before dying (Almost Requiem). In Almost Nowhere there is the love for storytelling, as an organic emergence of essence with narrative properties, as the trajectory of a gaze throughout a landscape almost lacking temporal definition, as a need for lines instead of rhymes. Almost Nowhere is a fairy tale, in which the wish for a placement is continuously tested through solved/unsolved movements. The fence of the trip delimits a land that insists on being purely musical and the need for exactitude (of shaping the evolution of characters) claims its living in what remains from the disorientation.
Almost Nowhere is dedicated to Yaron Deutsch and to the Ensemble Nikel.
