Fuori Forma
Improvisation at the Intersection of Musicological Research and Performance Practice. The series continues on Friday
October 23, and Thursday, October 29
H[t] Duo - A Signal in Fracture
Pierpaolo Dinapoli; guitar
Matteo Tundo; electronics performance
and Candida Felici (the “Verdi” Conservatory in Milan).
Program
Talia; Maria Vittoria Agresti
OTIAC; Claudio Panariello
Fotografiar el mar; David Antunez Rodriguez
Fray; Stylianos Dimou
Fray investigates the threshold where the classical guitar’s physical immediacy begins to disintegrate. The piece draws its raw material from mechanical gesture, percussive contact, and rhythmic friction—the grain of wood under pressure, the scrape of strings, the sharpness of attack. These tactile events form a vocabulary of recursive motion, where repeated actions gradually erode their own clarity and reveal hidden layers within the instrument’s sound. The live electronics function not as an external gloss but as an active agent of distortion, mutation, and subversion. They electrify the guitar’s acoustic reality, twisting familiar resonances into rusted timbres, stretching harmonics into hollowed echoes, and generating hybrid sonic figures that oscillate between the mechanical and the spectral. As the music unfolds, the guitar and electronics fray into each other: rhythmic impulses blur into noise, percussive cracks blossom into resonant afterimages, and fragile tones are bent into unfamiliar shapes. Fray traces this process of unraveling—where sound sheds its identity and re-emerges as a charged, electrified presence.