The expression 'Infinite Suite' refers to a type of musical composition that is based on successive fragmentations of a musical piece, called the 'mother piece'. Every piece in an infinite suite shows a particular permutation of the fragments in which the 'mother piece' is broken. However, only those permutations that produce musical processes that are significantly different from each other are considered in practice. These permutations should lead the listener to 'understand' the potential of the fragments to produce well differentiated musical experiences. See paper cited in [2] in the References.
Musical Example
Six pieces taken from an infinite suite are given as a musical example. The same set of 5120 tone attacks is found in each of the pieces. For example, the middle 'c' is found 126 times in each piece, the following 'c sharp' is found 102 times, etc. All the six pieces have in common this set of 5120 tone attacks. Different pieces in the suite show this material rearranged in such a way as to give rise to well differentiated musical experiences. Physical quantities that have strong correlations on the perceptual field change from fragment to fragment with extreme abrutness in one piece and with extreme gradualness in another piece. These physical quantities are taken in consideration according to an order of priority that also may change from piece to piece. Thus, an infinite suite try to reveal how different musical experiences can be obtained under the constraint of reusing the same raw musical material from which the mother piece is composed of.
Two of the pieces are given in two versions, played on sampled piano and on a disklavier.
Guillermo Pozzati - seis piezas de la Suite Infinita Nº 1
Música para piano sampleado o disklavier
| 1) Pieza Madre (1999) |  |
| 2) Gradualidad 1 (2009) | |
| 3) Gradualidad 2 (2009) | |
| 4) Contrastes 1 (2007) | |
| 5) Gradualidad 3 (2009) | |
| 6) Contrastes 2 (2009) | |
| 7) Pieza Madre * (1999) | |
| 8) Contrastes 1 * (2007) | |
*Disklavier version (Buenos Aires 2007)
Playing time: 61' aprox.
Technical observations:
The musical structure of the Mother Piece is the following: A-B-c-A-B-c. The first section, A, is characterized by repeated sounds and a 'motoric' rhythm. The B section, more calm in character, is based on the perfect fourth and perfect fifth musical intervals, the c section is a 'coda' in 'prestissimo'. As a result of the fragmentation of the 'mother piece', some fragments begin with the resonant part of a sound, the attack of which occurred in some previous fragment. That resonant part is eventually replaced with a silence (because under normal conditions a piano cannot play only resonances). The total duration of every piece remains the same.
