14/07/2023
Current Shapes is a concert series produced by SOW in collaboration with the . This year marks the 5th edition of this concert, which is part of the Accademia Chigiana's International Summer Festival programme. Throughout the years Current Shapes has showcased works by music and sound researchers such as Maria W Horn, Kassel Jaeger, Lucy Railton, Giulio Aldinucci, Thomas Ankersmit, Alessandra Novaga, Emanuele Giannini, Pisano e Palmentiero, the HCM label crew.
This year's Current Shapes, on Sept. 1st in the suggestive courtyard of Palazzo Chigi Saracini, will present Jessica Ekomane () and Laura Agnusdei with Daniele Fabris ( / .fabris)
Jessica Ekomane will present an exclusive live show in line with her artistic research presented, among others, in the acclaimed debut album released for the prestigious American label . The psychoacoustic qualities of her performances, the rhythmic structures in gradual change, and the interchange between noise and melody are at the core of this show which aims to present the mass of sound as a factor of transformation both on a spatial level, and on a perceptive one.
The Italian duo composed by saxophonist Laura Agnusdei and Daniele Fabris will open the concert. As a duo, Agnusdei and Fabris focus the compositional method on the reworking of the sound of the saxophone, using digital devices encoded by Fabris himself to shape, sculpt and orchestrate ethereal sounds. Combining the emotional power of melody together with soundscapes, these pieces strike a balance between gesture and abstraction, density and rarefaction.
Current Shapes is produced and curated by SOW, in collaboration with , .it and Inner Room Siena.
A special thanks goes to the cultural dissemination center Santa Chiara Lab - University of Siena () for having offered their patronage and for their precious contribution.
Artwork by : www.berrelgschwindlueem.ch
