“The idea of creating the project Girotondo remained in the drawer of desires for many years, born from the youthful reading of the homonymous theatrical text written at the end of the 19th century by Arthur Schnitzler.
Girotondo is a story about love and relationships between the sexes, about communication and solitude: the characters, five male and five female, dialogue in pairs forming a chain, a round (A with B, B with C, etc., until the last one that connects back to the first, closing the circle).
I thought of creating a game within the game and translating this scheme into music, assigning the roles of the theatrical characters to five “male” instruments and five “female” instruments, chosen according to their extension range. The musicians who lent themselves to the game with their art and imagination were randomly paired with a theatrical character, so that the duets are the random result.
I carved out the role of host/narrator external to the couples. To give unity to the project, I chose to assign two dodecaphonic series to the musicians (ideally representing the male and female universe) to be used as a common thread, in a very free way and not necessarily as a rigid division of the sexes.”
E.F.