Installation consisting of several long strings stretched over the whole
stage and creating an acoustic resonating system by means of 5 main
resonators [piano, tam-tam, bronze plate, Tibetan singing gong, wooden
panel] and 3 secondary resonators [bronze spirals].
A texture of independent sustained sounds occurs mainly by finger friction
and also by using string - instruments bows. The technique employed
here goes back to the sixties and to a method I first applied in 1963
to the piano as well as to percussion instruments such as cymbals and
other idiophones in order to be able of changing the ordinary short
decay curve typical of those instruments. Joining in 1964 the Improvisation
Group Nuova Consonanza, I have brought such techniques into the group
demonstrating them extensively in concerts, in records as well as in
Radio or TV programs of several countries. From the second half of next
decade I started experimenting with different sound producing systems
and only over twenty years after that period, with SOLO, I went back
to similar techniques. This time the gestural content of such actions
is going to be projected over a larger space – as if, hypothetically,
both the only player and the audience were placed inside the resonance
body of a gigantic string instrument.
