Goethe-Institut Rom, Auditorium

Visions and theatre of listening

Events organized in the context of “Notte bianca”
promoted by the Comune di Roma

KLEM - Espacios de Musica Electroacustica y Multimedia, Bilbao

In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes Roma

KLEM, a group of composers and performers of Bilbao, is appearing for
the first time in Rome with some pieces illustrative of their research work.
From the blended textures of “Con Cadenzia de Eternidad”, obtained with
saxophone and electronics which, intermingling, create the illusion of a
“mega-instrument” that encircles us, is multiplied and projected to infinity;
to the video-creation “Nasciturus I” which, thanks to the use of additive
synthesis for sound generation, recreates the delicate world of sound that
a foetus is able to perceive. In addition, the conquest of an always wider
space and an always greater liberty and plasticity of movement swhich
represent the desire for freedom and the difficult course for achieving it
(Entre Libres Espíritus); the visual and sonorous paths realized seeking the
memories of vanished sounds with the object of recovering them and
recreating a series of stimuli and audiovisual sensations that recall their origin
(Las vueltas de la memoria); from the original performer-audience relationship
proposed by “Sombras Y Ruinas” to “La Ciudad Infinita” (Infinite
City) that is reflected in the waters of the Ria amidst a delirium of colours
and geometric forms. The emblematic places and buildings of Bilbao have
been photographed and then subjected to diverse types of digital processing.
The music presents, with maximum abstraction, elements of Basque
folklore interspersed with a present-day language in which prevails the
research for a continuous transformation of sound spaces.

JOSÉ MANUEL LÓPEZ LÓPEZ

Con Cadenzia de Eternidad, 1997 **

sax, electroacoustics and dance

ÁNGEL ENFEDAQUE

Nasciturus, 2002 **

electroacoustics and video

ANDREA CAZZANIGA

Entre libres espiritus, 2002 **

sax, electroacoustics and dance

MIKEL ARCE

Las Vueltas de la Memoria, 2004 **

electroacoustics and video (video MIKEL ARCE)

IÑIGO IBAIBARRIAGA

Sombras y Ruinas, 2004 **

sax and electroacoustics (video JOSU REKALDE)

MARÍA EUGENIA LUC

La ciudad infinita, 2004 **

electroacoustics, dance and video (video JUAN CREGO Y PATXI SERRANO)

Sassofoni IÑIGO IBAIBARRIAGA

danza IDOIA ZABALETA

regia del suono MIKEL ARCE

immagini JOSU REKALDE

Saturday 18th September h 10 pm - 12 pm

Goethe-Institut Rom, Auditorium

Music & silent movie 

“DIE AUSTERNPRINZESSIN”, 1919, di ERNST LUBITSCH 

music elaborations by LAURA BIANCHINI

The interest of the author in innovative forms of the language utilizing electronic technologies has concentrated, in the last few years, on the realization of new modes of listening to music which require the creation of specific environments for each different type of fruition. In realizing the music for Die Austernprinzessin, the composer wished to concentrate attention on listening to complex sound events, mobile and
changeable in space, without however detracting attention from the images. The musical forms of brief duration or the immediate musical events,
paroxysmal and ironic, follow in coherent manner the structure of the film
(short scenes and accurate characterization of the personages) without
being commentaries. The work was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Rom in 2003 and realized at Centro Ricerche Musicali.

Sceneggiatura:

HANNS KRÄLY

ERNST LUBITSCH

Interpreti:

VICTOR JANSON

OSSI OSVALDA

                              HARRY LIEDTKE

                        JULIUS

                            FALKENSTEIN

Saturday 18th September h 9 pm

Goethe-Institut Rom, Foyer

“Variants in copper”

Concept and music

MICHELANGELO LUPONE

 Saturday 18th September h 9 pm – 2 am

Goethe-Institut Rom, giardino

“Diffused rays”

Composers of the New Millennium

BEATRICE LASIO Vento di Ostro, 2004 **

GÜNTER SCHNEIDER Disorder systems n. 7, 2003 **

GUILLERMO RIZZOTTO Canto de mi tierra, 2004 **

FRANCESCO SCAGLIOLA Clause mates. El mar del tempo, 2000

STEFANO TREVISI Swallow, 2002 ***

Wednesday 22nd September  h 9 pm

Goethe-Institut Rom, Auditorium

ROT *

Choreographic action by DOMENICO GUACCERO, version for voices, performers and live electronics.

Co-production 2004 Centro Ricerche Musicali - CRM, Istituto Gramma,
Federazione CEMAT – Anteprima, in the context of the Guaccero Project

Originating in an idea of Guaccero and choreographer Amedeo Amodio,
the choreographic action Rot (Red) is structured as a sequence of
“actions”, whose medium is a succession of colours with a polyvalent
symbolical significance. Iin fact, the progression of black-white-red is not
only able to assume an ideological significance, but also at the same time
indicates the successive stages of alchemistic processes; as in other works
of Guaccero, the “sacred” coexists with the “political”.
The work, performed once only in 1973 at the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome,
is presented today after an accurate work of restoration of the historic tape in a strict but essential form, certainly more consonant with the theatrical vision of Guaccero who in the introduction to the score emphasizes: “The succession of colours – black white red – does not admit superfluous scenic elements: it is sufficient, with its multivalence of meanings, for the setting. The succession of actions, movements of bodies and lights is synchronous and precise with the colours and sounds but never mechanical. It does not, and cannot, have a simple exclusive intentionality, since the texts adopted serve as a logical and ideological guide”

(taken from various sources).

Rot will be preceded by Cmpszn 2, for tape

Voices MARIA CHIARA PAVONE, SABINA MEYER, ROBERTO ABBONDANZA

performers MARCELLO SALVATORE, ISADORA ANGELINI, LUCA SERRANI

conductor MARCO ANGIUS

restoration of the original electronic tape and sound direction

MARIA CRISTINA DE AMICIS

direction and staging GIANCARLO GENTILUCCI

assistants MARCO PECORALE, DANIELA VESPA

coreography TIZIANA IRTI

project co-ordinator LAURA BIANCHINI

The sound installation “Riflessi” has been realized for the diffusion of
sound (see “Theatre of listening”)

original electronic tape

rrealization with EMS synthesizer and direction of live electronics DOMENICO GUACCERO

experimental voice MICHIKO HIRAYAMA

performers-composers WALTER BRANCHI E ALVIN CURRAN

percussionists conductor FRANCO BARBALONGA