accorDamento Stili

A permutation of the string “Domenico Scarlatti” is “accorDamento Stili”, which sounds like archaic Italian for «An Accordance of Styles».

(https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/accordamento-stili-an-accordance-of-styles)

A hybrid-generative track for Piano, Pianet T, Mellotron MkII (Flute), Percussion and, at the very end, Cembalo, dedicated to Domenico Scarlatti.

«Though Scarlatti wrote over 500 sonatas, there is a wide variety in his works. Some are deeply serious, others are light and almost humorous. Some sound like courtly dances, others like street songs. This ability to cover a wide range of styles and moods is one of the hallmarks of Scarlatti's work. Another stylistic trait of this composer is the ability to mix “different forms or levels of discourse”.» (Wikipedia: Domenico Scarlatti)

«Sutcliffe’s description of Scarlatti’s style (borrowed from Bakhtinian terminology) [it] exhibits heteroglossia—the practice of mixing different forms or levels of discourse.» (The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style by W. Dean Sutcliffe)

«Heteroglossia is the coexistence of distinct linguistic varieties, styles of discourse, or points of view within a single language (in Greek: hetero- “different” and glōssa “tongue, language”). The term translates the Russian разноречие [raznorechie: literally, “varied-speechedness”], which was introduced by the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1934 paper [...]» (Wikipedia:Heteroglossia)

Quadraphonic version available on demand.

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/accordamento-stili-an-accordance-of-styles