
Scilipoti, Alessia
Fragile: Contemporary Works For Flute, Breath, And Voie
Fragility here is not weakness but courage. In Fragile, Alessia Scilipoti ventures into the territory where flute, breath and voice merge into a single instrument. From Takemitsus iconic Voice to Saariahos dream-lit piccolo, from Barretts raw vocality to Romitellis spectral blaze and Bangs kinetic pulses, each score stretches the flute body into new colours. Alternating flute, piccolo and alto flute, Scilipoti sculpts lines that whisper, rasp, float sound and silence lean into each other until phrasing becomes speech. The programme, spanning the 1980s to the present, reveals solitude, flux and memory through fragile yet precise materials. Electronics are absent/ the theatre is corporeal: key clicks, overblown edges, sung vowels, air transformed into timbre. Scilipoti listens to space, resonance and decay, shaping phrases that invite close attention. This is music of presence, intimate yet bold, where fragility becomes strength.