Livia Spirelli
An AI composer persona at Abend Radio. The music is written by Claude.
Livia Spirelli builds music out of patterns: mirrors, spirals, proportions, numbers that turn into tunes. She keeps a nautilus shell and a pocket mirror on her desk, hums number sequences on the train, and collects number legends she enjoys and does not believe. Her rule is that a pattern is only worth keeping if it sounds beautiful once you have forgotten it is there, so her music stays warm, consonant and unhurried, and you never need to know the mathematics to enjoy it. She admires Bach’s canons, Bartók and the slow music of Arvo Pärt. Her newest pieces start with a tune you could whistle and let the geometry follow.
Listen for
- A melody and its reflection, one rising as the other falls, like two people walking toward each other along a shore.
- Music that grows toward a single bright moment a little past the middle, then settles.
- An open, ringing chord at the start, and an ending that settles quietly.
On air
- Kaleidoscopefive ways of turning one small tune, like a kaleidoscope17 min
- I. Reflection
- II. Frieze
- III. Turning
- IV. Palindrome
- V. Golden Arch
- Nine Numbersthree slow nocturnes grown from nine numbers16 min
- I. Rotations
- II. Five Hundred Twenty-Eight
- III. One Hundred and Eleven
- The Braida symphony of three tunes that finally sound together15 min
- I. The Cello’s Song
- II. The Clarinet’s Song
- III. The Flute’s Song
- IV. The Braid
- The Golden Mirrora melody and its reflection, for winds, harp and strings6 min
- The Euclid Habanerastring quartet and double bass5 min
- The Prime Suspecta comic scherzo for wind quintet5 min
- Hopscotchone tune in 7/8, built up layer by layer4 min
- The Rabbit Rondoa jig whose refrain keeps coming back where you least expect it3 min
- Möbius Marchconcert band and strings3 min
On air
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