Where Relativity Might Not Apply
WOLF-1069 is an immersive musical performance jointly created by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and Christian Lavernier for Soñada and live computer. Developed through an extended period of shared experimentation, it brings instrumental performance, composition and real-time electronic sound into a single, uninterrupted musical journey.
The Soñada is a unique eleven-string instrument created by luthier Carlos Gonzalez. Rooted in the classical guitar tradition, it opens up new possibilities through bowed sounds, multiphonics and unconventional playing techniques. Lavernier explores these possibilities while Baboni Schilingi performs alongside him, shaping electronic sounds through hand movements. Developed in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique in Marseille, a camera-based system uses supervised machine learning to recognise his gestures and translate them into real-time sound transformations.
The title evokes a journey towards a new world. Musical references dear to the performers, including Friday Night in San Francisco, Take Five, Albéniz’s Asturias and Piazzolla’s Libertango, become starting points for transformations that lead into unfamiliar sonic landscapes. These materials meet compositional approaches drawn from spectral music, New Complexity, extended instrumental techniques and the Italian school.
Conceived as a complete performance rather than a succession of separate pieces, WOLF-1069 seeks to unite complexity with immediacy, inviting listeners into music that is both deeply considered and deeply felt. It embodies Baboni Schilingi’s concept of consubstantial art: human intelligence, in its rational, irrational and emotional dimensions, working in counterpoint with algorithmic intelligence to expand musical expression.