Etude No. 1 is the first piece of the opus Etudes (2020-) I am currently working on, that will be comprised of 17 etudes divided into two collections: the Salvami etudes 1 4 7 9 11 14 17, where a slow, highly deductive approach is employed (conscious application of my musical theory, where wallpaper groups constitute the choice of groups) and the etudes 2 3, 5 6, 8, 10, 12 13, 15 16 where a fast, highly intuitive approach is used (consequence of my musical theory).

A damaged, broken and therefore enriched ritualistic purity is depicted. In my works a tainted mystical tension can be found, as the sought after concepts and aspirations of purity and perfection are infused with human perception and with organic elements that damage and therefore perceptually enrich the ungraspable, the ineffable. Mathematical groups are recognized as expressions of a level of abstraction that can be described as pure. In Etude No. 1, the mystical perfection of the wallpaper group p1 is brought to the perceptual realm through a psychophysical analysis in terms of violence and purity of the elements of the algebraic structure. The sequence of computations of the aforementioned elements, musically rendered, generates the form of the piece. Moreover, an expressive and aphoristic description of the resulting form is given with the definition of five musical zones: Metrical, Perfectly Itself, Transhuman, Holistic and Respiration zone. Each of them entails a different perception of the musical material and of reality itself. The listener is thus perceptually led through a musical tainted mystical path consisting of an alternation of such zones. A life and a music of trying, of failing and of recognized beauty in the inescapable and therefore sublimed deranging of sought after purity.