TETRAKTIS PERCUSSIONI
“Playing with an empty can is fun for every self-respecting child.”
Objects often have more than one use. A bag can become a mask or a balloon, an empty can can be a ball or a maraca, a sheet of paper turns into an airplane.
Taking inspiration from this simple truth, we want to address a very current issue, such as the separate collection of waste, focusing on a particular topic that characterizes our research: SOUND.
We start from the concept that every material has its own sound. Each of us surely notices this when we go to throw empty bottles into the glass bin (just to evoke a sound that remains impressed). But it’s not just glass that sounds! Wood sounds, plastic sounds, paper sounds, iron sounds, and if we think about it, organic matter sounds too.
Percussionists know well that every material has its own sound: in the infinite percussion instrumentarium, there are instruments made from all possible materials (or almost). And every object can become an instrument on which to create RHYTHM.
The ever-growing attention of society towards the problem of waste, its excessive production, and the way to reuse it concerns all sectors of the economic and social fabric of all continents of the earth, but it is in the West that, at the beginning of the 20th century, people began to worry and seek political, economic, and cultural solutions to this problem.
On one side, politicians, scientists, and economists seek practical solutions, on the other, the world of education, philosophers, and artists with their works contribute to the development of a collective consciousness around the topic.
It is on the basis of these brief considerations and the attention to “sound” and “rhythm” that the idea of creating a project that addresses this topic from a musical point of view was born.
The project includes six sections distinguished by the materials used. The selected music comes from the modern and contemporary repertoire (Steve Reich, John Cage,) and from popular traditions of the world that use everyday objects as instruments.
TETRAKTIS PERCUSSIONI
- Gianni Maestrucci
- Laura Mancini
- Leonardo Ramadori
- Gianluca Saveri
- REICH: Music for pieces of wood
- PIVAK: Music for paper bags
- CAGE: Living Room Music
- SAVERI: Cucchiai
- RAMADORI: Tubi n. 2
- CAGE: Third Construction
- SOLLIMA: Millennium Bug
- TRADIZIONALE: Batuquada
