HKO Screen - Clara Iannotta: where the dark earth bends
Clara Iannotta: where the dark earth bends
Says Clara Iannotta, born in Rome in 1983 but nowadays living in Berlin: “My music has always been an intimate investigation of the self. Sound has the power to reach depths which words cannot; it taught me who I was; and who I was becoming. In 2020, I got sick, and I was forced to change. Instead of composition feeling like a sometimes difficult, but focused, process of investigation, I felt lost. I know that I cannot write the same music I used to, but I don’t know who I am yet or what my music will be.”
where the dark earth bends for two trombones and orchestra is, she adds, “about everything and nothing. It gathers scraps from somewhere in my future, beyond the curve of what I know. Reaching out of sight, I’ve collected possibilities that might be mine, or might be someone else’s, digging for a harvest that makes no sense. A very important thanks goes to Weston Olencki and Mattie Barbier, who co-wrote their solo parts.”
Says Clara Iannotta, born in Rome in 1983 but nowadays living in Berlin: “My music has always been an intimate investigation of the self. Sound has the power to reach depths which words cannot; it taught me who I was; and who I was becoming. In 2020, I got sick, and I was forced to change. Instead of composition feeling like a sometimes difficult, but focused, process of investigation, I felt lost. I know that I cannot write the same music I used to, but I don’t know who I am yet or what my music will be.”
where the dark earth bends for two trombones and orchestra is, she adds, “about everything and nothing. It gathers scraps from somewhere in my future, beyond the curve of what I know. Reaching out of sight, I’ve collected possibilities that might be mine, or might be someone else’s, digging for a harvest that makes no sense. A very important thanks goes to Weston Olencki and Mattie Barbier, who co-wrote their solo parts.”
