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Violino Aumentato (2023)

Violino Aumentato (2023)

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

Roberto Pugliese

Violino Aumentato , violin, resin, audio cable, audio reproduction system, composition

2023

The idea for the work stems from the need to experiment with a different practice from the "concert form", a form that has always united all instrumental and non-instrumental music. With the advent of contemporary music, performance management has become increasingly complex between music and the space surrounding the musical result, but experimentation is often aimed at an audience that is not yet ready to receive it. This requirement is at the origin of alternative ways of fruition such as events, immersive installations and Sound Art. The work seeks to establish a dialogue between contemporary instrumental music and the visual arts. The sculpture features a violin which has been "augmented" by inserting 3D-printed trumpets that act as resonators. For the instrument, the artist has composed a score which has been performed by a musician and subsequently edited thanks to a series of digital audio processes which have subsequently been organized compositionally. Inside the instrument is a high quality speaker that plays the associated recording. In this way the resulting sound absorbs all the resonances of the instrument and of the "prostheses" attached to them, giving it an incredible truthfulness. The contrast between the "classic" instrument and the result of a "contemporary" sound, mediated by the grafts and combined with the freedom of use and the articulated visual part returns a work in balance between past and present that contextualizes an idea of "new music".

Thanks to M° Mario Dell’Angelo for playing the violin parts in the composition.