YOUR QUESTION:

09/18/2019 10:39:54 Chiara Bazzani

Again me. Sorry. I didn't tease you when I met you in Ferrara, but I'm doing it here, I'm a bit aware of that. But here you can skip my mail and avoid answering, at least..
I recently received your Nocturnes. I've listened to the album 5 or 6 times. It takes time for me to listen to music, especially when it's not banal.
I read you had in mind Chopin's Nocturnes, when you wrote yours, but I don't know why I think more about Schumann, especially the Kinderszenen...but that's just a personal feeling I have. What I'd like to ask you is if your familiar with Morton Feldman, in particular his later works. I really can't think about him listening to Tertiam Vocem, which I really like very much. Feldam used to broaden time to very long composition, that's not the case, but there's an attention to quiet sounds, and a certain taste for the use of few notes, which reminds me Feldman. Am I too far from that?
I really like your album. I hope to see you in Italy with these composition. Thank you. (Come to Modena!!)

MY ANSWER:

Thanks for the comments and for listening! I wasn’t familiar with the Kinderszenen so I am listening to them now as I type and that is certainly the vibe. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with Chopin’s Nocturnes for some time but I will give Schumann a chance. I also love Morton Feldman. His sense of time and micro-variation are excruciating in various ways. So, you are not far off at all. I wouldn’t necessarily say Feldman has been a direct influence but he’s in there for sure. That said, there is one small passage in Tertiam Vocem that IS directly Feldman in my eyes. So to you: good ears!