Live set for interactive sensor-based instrument and live electronics
Trailer from the premiere at the Spaziomusica Festival, Cagliari, October 2022.
Concept and composition + live performance Gabriele Marangoni
Interactive instrument design + sound design and live electronics Damiano Meacci
Metamorphosis grows out of the idea of continuous change, a perpetual becoming that is necessary for the very survival of humankind and of every natural and living system. Nature appears to us in a phase of extreme metamorphosis, and so does society; never before have change and transformation gained such speed and multiplicity. Concepts and structures have taken on a fluidity that allows evolution and transformation towards a tomorrow that must necessarily be reinvented. Like the perpetual, ever-changing motion of the seas and oceans: dynamic every day, themselves every day, different every day. It is precisely now that the search for what is essential and true becomes necessary, for the intimate breath of life, ready to regenerate itself and create tomorrow. We must focus on change, find the true essence of every single thing, and abandon, modify or destroy all the superstructures that imprison our possible future freedom of being and of expression. To free ourselves from what is preconceived and rise to a personal identity able to find its place in a new reality. We are immersed in change; we ourselves are the movement of a fluid structure in the making. The possibilities for creating new practices are endless, and now is the time to find the essence of the experiences and structures we have already absorbed, make them interact, and create new emotional and experiential dramaturgies. As in every historical period of change in human history, today too art must rediscover the power of its own language and the strength of its own gesture: a primordial force able to change form, renew itself and create new levels of experience and communication, while rediscovering all of its primordial strength. Metamorphosis is a sound project centred on the use of new technologies and Electronic Luthérie, combined with live performance through a new performance practice. “Metamorphosis is continuous modulation. Metamorphosis is movement. Metamorphosis is explosion and sigh.”
