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Quintetto

Quintetto

Historical materials for the work: text, photographs, audio and video when available.

Quintetto, cello, violas, violins, metal wire, iron, multichannel audio system, audio composition

2016

The idea of the work arose from the necessity to experiment an other practice different from " concert form” that always unites all the instrumental music and not. With the advent of contemporary music the performance management it has become more and more complex between music and space that surrounds the musical result but experimentation is often aimed at an audience not yet ready to receive it. This requirement is at the origin of alternative methods of fruition as happenings, immersive installations and Sound Art. The work tries to establish a dialogue between the experimental instrumental contemporary music and visual arts offering the user a different key listening.

The installation involves the insertion of a string quintet ( a cello, two violas and two violins ) inside a wall tensile structure. The instruments are attached to the structure through metal braided cables docked to some spacers specially made. The artist has composed for the instruments a score which was performed by musicians who after numerous and necessary tests has been recorded on a multichannel audio support. Inside each instrument there is an high quality speaker that reproduces the associated recording. The contrast between the "classic" instruments and the result "contemporary" sound combined with the freedom way of fruition and the articulated visual part returns work in balance between past and present that contextualizes a "new music" idea.