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Enrico Cocco
Primitivo
(1998)
drammaturgia del suono e del gesto
for 2 Pianos amplified and Electronics

Primitivo is a magic ritual connected to sound by the use of simple archetypes of the musical language, beyond the cultivated European tradition, in order to recall the ancestral representative power of the sound. It is then a primary interest in piano resonances, but also a linguistic research towards a minimal use of the cultivated tradition starting from musical places of the XXth century and towards jazz. Beyond sound the representation, which is clearly inspired to the forms of dramatisation that can be found in Mauricio Kagel, or in contexts different from music, in Pina Bausch.
Primitivo appears as musical action inside the double sound/scene: the performer discovers sound in action and is inevitably incited by the necessity of movement.
The poetical research arises from the elaboration on magical thought: sounds precede things or sometimes follow them; things can be imagined starting from nothing and then from sound: primitive is the isolated sound, the fragment that resounds in its own and becomes a metaphor; primitive is the constant and inescapable rhythm; primitive is the magic thought of union among heavens, earth, men and things.
The soundbox of the piano becomes the simulacrum and container of symbolical objects, sounds and emotions.
E.C.

Technical schedule:

Four loudspeaker in the four corner of the concert hall, spreading two stereo channel

1 loudspeaker under each piano (total 2)
2 loudspeaker for listening musicians

Mixer standard 12 X 2 out
Reverberation unit.
2 microphones for each piano (total 4 microph.)
Unit CD reading.
4 lights (two for each musician)
During the piece the general light of the hall should be closed