Tadini
Italy
Integra Commission: Walking Through Boundaries
Duration: 20:48
Publisher: Suvini Zerboni
Integra Ensemble: BIT20 (Norway)
Integra Research Centre: SARC (Northern Ireland)
Programme Note
Walking Through Boundaries keeps track of the different times and places where it has been created, always in constant transition. It is a journey through boundaries of time and space, sounds and images, perception and memory. Musical elements are presented first in the score, and then fed to the live electronics and developed in the video, opening up a dialogue between the acoustic and electronic components of the work. The boundaries of performance and perception are thus placed outside the concert hall, into an enlarged ‘sonic theatre’. The non-linear time of the composition allows multiple connections between the instrumental writing, the soundscapes recorded in Belfast, and the video filmed in Bergen, including all possible ‘cross-treatments’ of these elements. The score is the playground where everything is possible, while the electronics constrain each sonic or visual element in accordance with the directions given by the score. In a sort of ‘diagonal ubiquity’, elements appear in a succession that is not coherent with their construction – perception and memory are somehow distorted. Nevertheless, multiple directions are kept together by a constant, circular treatment of time: a variable speed ‘Passacaglia’, which leads the composition and gives a coherent direction to its development.
Cameraman: Stefano Slocovich
Video Compositing: Anna Frigo (stalkervideo, Milan)
Biography
Michele Tadini was born in Milan in 1964. He attended the Conservatoire G.Verdi di Milano where he studied with Ruggero Chiesa, Sandro Gorli, Giacomo Manzoni and Riccardo Sinigaglia, resulting in the award of degrees in guitar, composition and electronic music. His studies continued in the master classes of Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where he was awarded a Diploma of Merit. From 1990 to 2003 he held the position of chief of production at Agon – Acustica Informatica Musica in Milan. Currently, he is co-leader of Centro Tempo Reale in Florence and a member of PRISMA (Pedagogy and International Research on Assisted Musical Systems).
Many prestigious festivals in Europe, US, South America and Canada, have commissioned and performed Tadini’s compositions. He has also composed music for several theatrical productions, as well as music for interactive multimedia installations, films and ballets.
NB
This piece was composed during the first phase of the Integra project and as such does not use the Integra:Live software.