Michelangelo Lupone: "Forma del Respiro"

This paper proposes an aesthetic and formal analysis of the work Forma del respiro by the Italian composer Michelangelo Lupone. Written in 1993 at the CRM – Centre for Musical Research, Rome, the piece for magnetic tape is an exploration of the expressive potential of the granular synthesis technique, and it submits to analysis a high number of parameters (timbre, frequency, dynamics, temporal density, spectral density, spatialization), while at the same time exhibiting a structural unity due to the continuous and incessant transformation and integration of sound events.