Halt And Catch Fire

Halt And Catch Fire

electroacoustic improvisation concert for violin double bass and electronics

2023 -

Duration: 40'00''
Sound diffusion: stereophonic | quadriphonic | acousmonium

HALT AND CATCH FIRE is an improvisational concert for acoustic instruments and electronics. It is the musical translation of an operational instruction that tends to build ambitious architectures, poised between electronic rhythm and timbre permutation, where the elements try to succeed and overwhelm each other in a growing and very rapid cycle that tends to the limit, until arriving at an inevitable collapse point. Halt and catch fire (HCF) is in fact a dummy assembly language instruction used to define instructions that bring the CPU into a state from which it can only be brought out with a reset.

 

Nicola Cappelletti: violin and electronics
Ferdinando Romano: double bass

Performances

 

10.04.2023 - Indigo Art Gallery, Perugia (IT) HACF #02
15.03.2023 - Murate Caffè Letterario, Firenze (IT) - HACF #01

by Nicola

Alla Coniugazione con il Cosmo

Alla Coniugazione con il Cosmo

theatre performance

2021

Duration: 55'00''

Declamation Alla Coniugazione con il Cosmo, made on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of Paolo Vinti.

 

Texts: Paolo Vinti
Direction: Sandro Mabellini
Declamation: Stefano Baffetti
Music: Nicola Cappelletti and Fab Mayday
Choir: Coristi a Priori
Choir direction: Carmen Cicconofri

Performances

 

07.09.2021 - Piazza S. Giovanni del Fosso, Perugia (IT) *premiere

by Anna

Asindeto

Asindeto

for dance and electronics

(2023)

Duration: 22'30''

In Asindeto the relationship between sound and movement defines a narrative structure of dislocated absences, made-up of oppositions made tangible, and builds a sublimated and represented space as the only possible context for the realization of meaning.

 

Composition, sound: Nicola Cappelletti
Choreography, dance: Lucia Guarino

 

Asindeto is a commission and a production by Opificio Sonoro, with the support of the PiGro residency program of Tempo Reale, with the support of the artistic residence of PARC (Performing Arts Research Centre) and with the communication support of Nexus Factory.

 

Photos: Claudia Ioan / Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica ONLUS

Performances

 

11.05.2023 - Festival Orizzonti, Auditorium S. Cecilia - Perugia (IT) *premiere

by Anna

Ordine e Mutilazione

Ordine e Mutilazione

sound poetry | spoken words | fixed media

2019-2021

Duration: 37'00''
Sound diffusion: stereophonic

Ordine e mutilazione is an electroacoustic fixed media composition that comes from the book “Ordine e Mutilazione” (Pietre Vive Editore, 2016) by the Italian poet Elena Zuccaccia.

 

The musical writing dialogues with the voice, reconstructing the dramaturgical structure of the poem, allowing the emergence, in a musical form, of roles and deep narrative dynamics. This process of
transfiguration and counterpoint at the same time, draws a new structural dimension with respect to the
original text, a new context where poetry comes to life in a continuous dialogue between the physical body
(the voice), literary body (the poem), and the sound body, thanks to the synthesis techniques used and the
processing of concrete sounds and of the voice itself.

 

Voice: Elena Zuccaccia.

Performances

14.04.2023 - On air / On site, Institute of Solology, Deen Haag (NED)
18.05.2019 - Bologna in Lettere, Sala Teatro Costarena, Bologna (IT)

by Anna