Scelsi

scelsi In name and in fact.
Because Giacinto Scelsi has always chosen not to conform to the mainstream of the time and has always proposed original works.
Like the 1959 Four Pieces on a Single Note for chamber orchestra. While the musical world is laboriously emerging from the impasse of integral serialism, his work paves the way for a new concept dedicated to the exploration of timbre: Scelsi, in his musical poetics, investigates the microstructure of sound, venturing into previously unexplored territories, using unconventional techniques (including an intensive use of microintervals).

Here you can listen to the first and the second of the Four Pieces on a Single Note for chamber orchestra (1959).

When you enter a sound, you are enveloped by it, you become part of the sound, little by little you are swallowed up by it and have no need for another sound.

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