While releases of Giancarlo Toniutti's music started sporadically, with years between some early titles, he has been more active in recent years. This new work, recorded in 2022, is presented as a single track of almost 50 minutes length. Always difficult to place, this could best be described as electroacoustic music and comes closer in composition to the late works of Luigi Nono or early György Ligeti, without sounding like either of those or getting lost in their academic language.

Generally Toniutti does not reveal how the sounds of his compositions are created, but here gives us a clue saying they come from self-built idiophones made of glass, brass and wooden frames, metal tines and steel plates, which nonetheless use no string, membrane, or air. That said, the original high pitched sounds were transposed and treated to reach their final form, which is more muted and mysterious.

Moving slowly and delicately, tones ebb and flow with contrasting densities creating constellations which do not hold as still as first listening might suggest. This is a work that appears simple on the surface but holds a great complexity when paying attention to the details; overlapping in varying ways creating an illusion of relatively still surface.

Ltd x 302 copies in a digisleeve with 8-page booklet.

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