Concerts of Electroacoustic Music

The Festival Ex Novo Musica 2009, now in its sixth edition, features two concerts of electroacoustic music, organised in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute for Music. Based on the conviction that each sound can only find its own form in the space in which it is produced, the project aims to encourage research in the fi eld of structural convergences between the acoustic dimension and the electronic dimension of a physical space. The actual moment of the concert is thus the summa of experiences elaborated in the experimental stages. Although spaces give life to and shape sounds, it is equally true that making a space sound good is an artistic operation; this requires and understanding of its interior life, refractions and reverberations. The warm sonority of the spacious rooms in the Giorgio Cini Foundation harmonise the rawness and ecstasy of “contemporary sounds”, creating a remarkable syncretism between “sounds of the memory” – produced by traditional instruments – and “sounds of the real”, i.e. that real whose imaginative power inevitably comes through in every work making use of electronic media. The concerts will feature works by leading composers in the world of contemporary music (Luca Francesconi, Ivan Fedele and Claudio Ambrosini) and young composers who exploit the potential of the new technologies (Emanuele Casale, Roberto Doati, Stefano Bulfon and Michele Tadini). There will also be a homage to Mauricio Kagel, with a showing of the historic fi lm Ludwig van (1969), and to Alvin Lucier, with the presentation of a new version with electronics of Risonanza, a work composed for the Venice Ex Novo Ensemble in 1982.

Saturday 14 November 2009
Giorgio Cini Foundation – Sala degli Arazzi
6pm