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Sestetto

Sestetto

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

Roberto Pugliese

Sestetto violins, cables, metal wire, multichannel system, audio composition

2020

The idea of the work was born from the need to experiment with a practice different from the "concert form", a form that has always united all instrumental and non-instrumental music. With the advent of contemporary music, the management of performances has become increasingly complex between music and space surrounding 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 such as events, immersive installations and Sound Art. The work tries to establish a dialogue between contemporary instrumental music and visual arts. The sculpture involves the insertion of six violins inside a metal tensile structure anchored to the wall. The instruments are fixed to the structure through braided metal cables anchored to some spacers. For the instruments, the artist composed a score that was performed by musicians and subsequently edited out thanks to a series of digital audio processes which were subsequently organized compositionally. Inside each instrument there is a high quality speaker that reproduces the associated recording. In this way the resulting sound absorbs all the resonances of the instrument giving it an incredible truthfulness. The contrast between the "classic" instruments and the result of a "contemporary" sound combined with the freedom of use and the articulated visual part returns work in balance between past and present which contextualises an idea of "new music".