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Silvia Borzelli: strata (reverse ruins)

für E-Gitarre, Theorbe, Akkordeon und Elektronik

(2025)

I turn to rocks with admiration and trust–shaped by time, and shaping time in return. Ancient, patient witnesses of deep time.
A sample from the theorbo, played with the bow, acts as the main and mutable source of the electronic material: a fragment in dialogue with its live counterpart, moving through processes of dense sonic stratification and diagenesis.
Electronic strata–soundtracks and live processing–fracture and reform, entering into contrast and mimesis with the instruments. As the piece unfolds, rhythmic structures gradually erode layers of sound; fragments return altered, dissolve, and reassemble.
The music follows a trajectory that suggests a continuous return rather than closure: what remains begins again, as erosion and construction overlap–sound persisting as a form of strength and resistance.

(Silvia Borzelli)

Silvia Borzelli was born in Rome, currently based in Amsterdam. She studied piano and composition in Italy, Sweden, and the Netherlands, where she completed her master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Her music has been commissioned and performed by leading groups such as ASKO|Schönberg (Het Muziek), the Arditti Quartet, mdi ensemble, and Les Cris de Paris, among others, and presented at major international festivals including the Venice Biennale, Milano Musica, Holland Festival, ECLAT, and Musica Strasbourg. Her work has received support from institutions such as the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and the Fonds Podiumkunsten NL.

She writes primarily concert music for instruments and voices. Her work is driven by a strong interest in instrumental idiomaticity, economy of material, and in mechanisms of multiplication and repeating-never- repeating gestures and materials unfolding within forms that test and play with time.
While her work always begins and ends in sound, she understands music as a form of listening and presence, often engaging with human narratives, concepts and images that feel urgent, fertile, necessary. In this sense, her music carries a political dimension in its most etymological meaning: rooted in a shared territory–physical or metaphorical–and in the act of inhabiting and interpreting it through sound.

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