Programme notes

The piece musically investigates the different nuances that the ability to bring to mind a memory corroded by time can take on. Sine memoria (from Latin, “without memory”) is a concept that takes on different meanings, it expands to embrace the relationship between being and one's identity, between being and one's survival. In fact, the vanishing or the clouding of an important memory also coincides with the loss of a part of oneself, of something that contributed in the past to forging our identity (sine me, "without me"); from this perspective, the ability to remember becomes an indispensable means for the preservation of our ego (sine moria, "without death").

Sine memoria is therefore metaphorically a struggle for the preservation and survival of a memory, which in the composition is musically represented by the Cavatina of the quartet op. 130 by Beethoven. The melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements of the Cavatina blend with foreign thematic material, musically creating new relationships and new meanings.