“Inno alla Terra” is a contemporary and experimental piece, with tribal yet slightly classical overtones. The sound is the most important element of the entire piece: the harmony on which the entire composition is based, together with the melody, is deliberately dissonant in order to respect the ancestral intentionality of the sounds and the modernity of the sounds emitted in a mechanical and obstinate manner through the use of a prepared piano, that is, modifying the internal strings of the instrument by adding wooden or metal objects, alternating the natural sound in a rudimentary manner.

Cain and Abel: War Dances for Prepared Piano is the second contemporary composition by the experimental pianist Christian Grifa, transcribed and set to music by paraphrasing bold sequences of notes on the score, along the lines of those of the previous composition, which develop in an anachronistic way the most classic of the biblical episodes after the creation of Man through God (the death and the killing of Abel at the hands of his brother Cain), and at the same time outline sacred, profane, philosophical and historical themes, highlighting the interesting archetypal reasoning that gravitates around the orbit of the same episode, on the which still today the man reflects, and asks himself important questions, without however being able to find a precise answer, bringing back to the mind and to the listener’s ear a reflection of the key musical theme of the previous piano piece prepared “Hymn to the Earth”.