Quattro canti sulla circolarità del tempo

1989
Quattro canti sulla circolarità del tempo is a radio work by Isabella Bordoni and Roberto Paci Dalò for RAI Radiouno.

The work is a “sound dramaturgy” that interweaves Paci Dalò’s harmonic clarinet with the cries of Arab markets, fragments of Orthodox liturgy recorded in Gethsemane (Jerusalem) and texts recited in Hebrew and Hungarian. The piece explores the circularity of time through a “babel of languages and sonic geographies”, creating a polyphony that brings together human voices, soundscapes and psalmody.

Credits

Quattro canti sulla circolarità del tempo
radio work

by
Isabella Bordoni and Roberto Paci Dalò

text
Isabella Bordoni
music
Roberto Paci Dalò
with
Isabella Bordoni
Gyula Molnar
Esti Kenan
Richard Long
Roberto Paci Dalò (clarinet, harmonic clarinet)

production RAI Radiouno / Audiobox
world première on 16 February 1989