First made in London at the invitation of Lotta Hammer Lab in the spaces of Westlondonprojects (2001), and re-presented in Italy (2003) on the occasion of the exhibition Moltitudini – Solitudini at the Museion in Bolzano, Italy, Luca Vitone’s installation I only have eyes for you offers the opportunity for an intimate experience with one’s body and mind in relation to the surrounding space.
“A cube raised off the ground constructed of rough pine planks that takes the same dimensions as Lotta Hammer’s room and repurposes it into a larger one. Inside is a very simple decor consisting of sky-blue carpeting on the floor with two white cloud-shaped mats and a green lawn with white daisies on the ceiling. Only two people at a time can enter it: the student and the teacher. So I thought of dedicating the workshop to yoga philosophy as a tool for self-knowledge”.
Permormance I Percussionisti di Milano
Music by C. Pirola, J. Cage, T.Riley, P. Smadbeck, M. Campioni.
Their interest in Eastern culture allowed these composers to recognize in sounds the ability to generate multiple emotional states: in these pieces their focus is on inducing a certain reaction in the listener rather than on orchestral qualities or the proper organization of sounds. There is no doubt, in fact, that in Reich’s minimal music, characterized by the constant repetition of rhythmic and melodic particles, we are dealing with a powerful hypnotic channel. Similarly, in Cage’s music, attentive more to silences than to sounds, there is an intention to induce meditation.
The musicians of the group I Percussionisti di Milano hold important roles in the Italian percussion scene, both in teaching and in collaborations with internationally renowned orchestras and artists. Their focus on the contemporary repertoire stems from the need to enhance, through research and experimentation, that family of instruments, percussion instruments, which only in recent years has been managing to carve out a leading space for itself.
