ADRIA Microtonalis
Processio Microtonalis
Processio Microtonalis
Project ADRIA Microtonalis is dedicated to the traditional non-tampered music - includes an interdisciplinary approach to the research and analysis of traditional instruments and music intonation systems of the North Adriatic region.
Project consists of three elements: Research of the acoustic features, Artistic work and Dissemination of scientific and artistic results. Project aims to present and publish scientific and artistic material that will enrich our immaterial culture, heritage and musical art (both past and future) and to become a reference for all future-like researchers of traditional non-tampered music. ADRIA Microtonalis research is conducted in cooperation with Institution Ivan Matetic Rongov and is supported by Zaklada Kultura Nova.
Šurle
Zoran Šćekić's ensemble "Nine Fragments for Alto Saxophone" (2014), performed by Antica Berislava and published on the CD album "Fragments," is the result of the first music-scientific research conducted as part of the ADRIA Microtonalis project, inspired by Gospin plač, a traditional chant from the island of Hvar, which is part of the Great Week ritual known as the Night Procession Za križem, protected by UNESCO. The name Procession Za križem comes from the collective name Processio Microtonalis as well as from its individual project ADRIA Microtonalis. The long-term collaboration between the composer and performer in this composition included fieldwork, the study of chants, analysis, and transcription of the sound recordings of Faroski kantaduri singers, designing systems of notation that capture the characteristic microinterval structures of the chants, and finding the best way to incorporate such musical material into the nature of the instrument and the composer's poetics. The transcription and intonational analysis of the sound recording of the traditional Gospin plač revealed that within the interval of a fifth, there are 13 different tones. Therefore, the odd-numbered fragments are based on the untempered 13-tone division of the fifth, while the even-numbered fragments are composed in the tempered system, centered on three short melodic themes created from two chants from Gospin plač.
Using the various possibilities provided by this kind of untempered microtonal traditional music, the composer expands the range of possibilities for composition, using elements of chants as a starting point and one of the "tools" in the use of his own compositional-technical processes.
The second part of the ADRIA Microtonalis project involves recording and spectral analysis of traditional instruments from Istria and the Kvarner region for the purpose of acoustical-musical-harmonic research of the acoustic characteristics and origins of the intonation system of the mentioned areas, which were also recently protected by UNESCO. The goal is the promotion of traditional microtonal systems and their implementation in the modern range of musical styles and instruments as a fundamental tool for the microtonal musical direction.
ADRIA Microtonalis is conducted in the cooperation with Institution Ivan Matetić Ronjgov. The project is financially supported by Zaklada Kultura nova