Lucio Capece
Conditional Music - MAMbo ben temperato
sound performance, première

for flying speakers, balloons filled with helium, sine waves, recording of the performance SPACE with microphones inside cardboard tubes, tune bugs, cardboard boxes, PA, soprano saxophone
by and with Lucio Capece
guests Luciano Maggiore, Enrico Malatesta, Dominique Vaccaro, Riccardo Baruzzi
production Xing/Live Arts Week

MAMbo ben temperato (Well-tempered MAMbo) is the title of the new sound performance by Lucio Capece, created for Live Arts Week, as an evolution of the project Conditional Music. Using a set of sound recordings made in the MAMbo spaces with microphones, as starting material, Capece selects a repertoire of pitches. This collection forms a compositional base that lies between a long tonal melody and a changing drone, performed using a three-speaker sound system in three balloons in the air, with varied vertical positions. The final result is added a second set of sounds, obtained  live through the same miking system. This doubling of simultaneous sound sources, delayed in time starting from the same acoustic space, arises from a specific intent to investigate the phenomenology of perception. As Capece himself says, "Everything around us tends to confirm the existence of the concepts of how we perceive that everything. The approach we have towards our environment makes us relate to it as if we had our feet planted in a 'State of Real' that we accept as the ground on which we base our perception system." With MAMbo ben temperato Capece offers a unified space of ground and figure where music becomes then an enjoyable tool to listen to how we listen, to perceive how we perceive. A space in perennial transformation, where every detail is a fundamental part of a whole.

saturday 20 april  9 pm >  MAMbo