The Long Lightning Flashes Of The First Flood

The Long Lightning Flashes of the First Flood is a study that explores the expressive possibilities of generative music in dialectic with the post-classical form, using specific musical scales.
The music is an imaginative travel in a dreamlike landscape, the sounds are thin and dilated, they evoke a continuous tension between quietness and dark mystery.

There are six tracks whose scores are made using Gaussian distributions as regards the time and frequency domain. The control of the random variables is operated in real time, as a performative act, through a MIDI controller, creating de facto an instant composition that is modeled on the impromptu coordinates of time and space according to the circumstances in which the composer / performer finds himself at that moment.
The use of Gaussian distributions allows us to define a circumscribed atmosphere, an open field for indeterminacy, thus avoiding any risk of drifting towards dramatic intentions, linked to taste and icastic melodies.

The first three pieces were composed using the hexatonic scales. The hexatonic scale is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, who used it in several pieces. Among its features, all the notes of the scale can act as a tonic. In this scale all the triad chords are augmented and the absence of perfect fourths and fifths and of the leading-tone creates an environment that is always open, dilated, spatial.

The last three pieces use exclusively the octatonic scale. This is a symmetric scale composed of alternating whole and half steps.
The twelve tones of the chromatic scale are covered by three disjoint diminished seventh chords. The notes from two such seventh-chord combinations form an octatonic collection. Because there are three ways to select two from three, there are three octatonic scales in the twelve-tone system.
Schillinger suggests that the scale was formulated already by Persian traditional music in the 7th century AD, where it was called "Zar ef Kend", meaning "string of pearls", the idea being that the two different sizes of intervals were like two different sizes of pearls.

To enrich the disc there is a photographic booklet with an extract of a photographic work by Ciccarelli to which the disc is inspired