ESSE DI SALOMÈ
Sound theatre after Mallarmé
by Sonia Bergamasco and Francesco Giomi
Freely based on fragments of Mallarmé’s Hérodiade (Italian translation by Cosimo Ortesta)
On stage: Sonia Bergamasco
Sound design and sound direction: Damiano Meacci
Live electronics: Francesco Canavese
Lighting: Paolo Pollo Rodighiero
Props: Lorenzo Pazzagli
A sound theatre work conceived by Sonia Bergamasco, one of Italy’s most acclaimed actresses, with Tempo Reale. The project grew out of the wish to explore the paths that research on the voice can take thanks to new technologies, and found in Mallarmé’s Hérodiade a fascinating context, rich in stimuli. Salome, a figure of great sensuality and ambiguity, was for Mallarmé himself the starting point of a new poetics, fed by new words and evocative terms that create resonances, impressions, analogies and a multiplicity of meanings. In this spirit, the electronics enter the world the text evokes through the voice: live electronics can expand, amplify and deconstruct the vocal and textual path, giving it a dramaturgical form tied to the space and to the moment.
Video of the performance at Tempo Reale Festival 2009, Cantieri Goldonetta, Florence, 5 October 2009.
