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The White Ship (November 1919)

from KuartetS by Kristian Sensini

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The quartet is inspired by a story by H.P. Lovecraft, of which I have always been a passionate reader. It’s not part of his Horror stories, but rather of those Fantasy stories related to the Cycle of Dreams, a theme that, as you may have understood, fascinates me and consequently inspires me a lot. It is the story of a journey on a fantastic vessel through ideal worlds that are never satisfying enough for the protagonist of the story. It’s clearly an allegory, the endless search for what we don’t have and could never have because the human being is not only never satisfied with what he has or can get, but lives in the terrible and dangerous illusion of always deserving more than what he has. Regardless of the allegorical meaning, the beauty of the story is in Lovecraft’s usual ability to transport us to places of dreams (or nightmares) thanks in particular to the elaborate use of language. Musically I tried to translate this suspension of consciousness using the time of 5/4 without being able to feel it immediately. First of all, thanks to the slow time and avoiding particular rhythmic accents, the 5/4 scan does not follow the canonical 3+2 or 2+3 but a more particular 2+1+2 which allowed me a certain symmetry in setting the changes of harmony maintaining a sense of uncertainty, the sensation one has in dreams. Melody and harmony have a sense of “archaic” I don’t know how else to define it, and this is the sense that Lovecraft’s tales transmit to me, the link with the ancestral, with the primitive with what remains of the ancient in the collective consciousness of the human being. Harmonically and melodically the direction is not certain, the canonical rules of harmonic attraction lose their value just as in dreams the common laws of physics lose their value.

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from KuartetS, released June 4, 2020

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Award winning composer, Piano and Flute player with Classical and Jazz Background studies and international credits for Movies an Tv Series

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