The first movement of this symphony is a theme with variation, a musical form historically often bounded to naturalistic suggestions.
The first movement of Alchemy is a very detailed fractal, and all the variations of the theme are realized with fractal procedures.
The theme that generates all the piece is formed by four notes: B-C-D-E or similar transported series. This theme is a tetrachord, a group of four notes that for the pythagoreans was the origin of the world (and in fact the origin of the musical scale system in ancient Greece).
The thematic rhythm bounded to these four notes is a fractal rhythm derived from the golden ratio (a mathematical relation present in many natural beings - the most famous is the nautilus' shell) or from the Fibonacci sequence (that is related to golden section).
The four and the idea of fractal are the keys to the meaning of this movement: through the four and through the fractal, music seek the Totality, the whole Self, the alchemic Work.
lyrics
Deus sive Natura.
Natura.
Il giorno e la notte,
soffio nell’onda.
Deus.
Aqua nostra ignis est.
Sono un nodo e tu mi sciogli.
Deus, Natura, Chiaroscuro,
Sole Luna sono un sol nodo.
Libertà, Necessità.
No, non v’è rosa senza spine.
V’è nell’onda la dolce danza,
lieve antica alternanza.
Io sono nell’Onda Necessità libera,
delle profondità l’Anima,
della Vitalità la Freschezza.
Deus, Natura.
Sono un nodo, tu mi sciogli,
Bellezza!
Solve et coagula
Acqua nostra ignis est
Aurum nostrum non est aurum vulgi
credits
from Alchemy, Electronic Symphony,
released August 15, 2015
Francesca Scarafile, soprano
Iovo Matti, telegraph
Carlo Matti, flutes, percussions and all the other stuff
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