2023
June 13th 2023
CONCERT
Scarlet K141 by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Luca Quintavalle - harpsichord
Tonhalle Ehrenhof 1
Düsseldor - [Germany]
https://www.tonhalle.de/veranstaltung/sternstunden/10407-cembalonacht
Scarlet K141 is a composition for harpsichord and live electronics.
It is a composition that belongs to the "highly" cycle, which means "as fast as possible".
It is a composition strongly inspired by Scarlatti's sonata K141. Actually, I was inspired by three sonatas: K18, K141 and K525. But the morphological link with K141 is much more explicit.
This composition seeks, in addition to a purely musical discourse, to enhance the performer. In the music of creation, also known as contemporary music, all too often composers submit passages that are extremely difficult to perform and whose sonic result seems disconnected from the difficulty of producing it.
Scarlet K141 is exactly the opposite. The instrumental gestures are in themselves all idiomatic to the instrument: obstinate repeated notes, trills, tremolos, clusters. It is their concatenation that makes them particularly spectacular.
In addition to the gestures just listed, I ask Luca Quintavalle, in a section before the finale, to strike the harpsichord as if it were a percussion instrument. It is no longer a question of playing on the keyboard, but in the different wooden parts of the sound box. All these sounds are recorded in real time by the computer and I process them so that a dialogue is created between the harpsichord and the electronics. This dialogue is defined both by the reworked sounds and by a series of sounds that I have composed specifically for this composition.
For more than 14 years now, I have been writing my scores not on paper, nor on the computer, but on human bodies. Then I take photographs of these scores so that I can copy them and send them to the musicians. For Scarlet K141 I wrote about Agathe Vidal [whose photo was used for the cover].
In this sense Scarlet K141 represents my aesthetics [or poetics if you prefer], which is articulated around four fundamental needs: to express myself through complex structures, the search for hedonism through my work, the use of machines and the redefinition of the notion of the body in art.
Scarlet K141 is dedicated to Luca Quintavalle, to whom I owe so much, and this composition bears witness to that.
March from 13th to 17th 2023
Rituals
LMA
Conception & music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Marseille - [France]
From October 9th to 14th 2023
Performance
Rizhomatics
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Performer - Agathe Vidal
A production by EMI - Ensemble de Musique Interactive.
Festival Artonov - Bruxelles - [Belgium]
Rhizomatics is not strictly speaking a performance, nor an installation. It is a new way of looking at creation and at the notion of the work of art itself. It is an invitation to displace our frames of reference and our habits, both to the artists (Agathe Vidal and me) and to the public, thus inaugurating a new space for encounters, debates and intimacy around this creation and anticipating the risks that, at any moment, threaten to disconnect us from one another.
Rhizomatics thus consists of a new artistic pact; it is a new paradigm, imagined in the continuity of the changes in the relationship between the work, the two artists and the public. This pact is based on a reinterpretation of the concept of the open work, of the metamorphosis of the work in contact with its audiences, whose principles Umberto Eco theorised, and whose functioning Thadeusz Kantor illustrated through his happenings, open classes and unprecedented theatrical creations.