Steps to be taken in case of death: 2019

„Steps to be taken in case of death:“ is an operating theater, the performers are surgeons operating the instrument behind a medical screen. The audience can observe the surgery  on 5  LCD monitors placed on either side of the medical screen which display the sectioned image of the violin filmed by a webcam. The idea of creating a “surgical theater” where to perform gives the possibility to set up an almost sacred off-limits area where to experiment a deeper control on the different soound-visual-gestural artistic modalities. In this piece the audience is guided in a very controlled visual and sound experience: hiding, showing, disguising, mangling  the reality of the actions on the basis of the musical, visual or narrative necessities. The aim is to make the audience experience a condition of emotional oscillation between an involved and tensioned condition and a more detached and contemplative one.

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Matteo Traverso Maria Isolina Cozzani

Italy

Matteo Traverso nasce a Santa Margherita Ligure (GE) nel 1994. Completa l'istruzione obbligatoria e si diploma al liceo scientifico Collegio Emiliani di Genova Nervi nel 2013. Dal 2011 al 2013 studia teoria musicale, armonia e contrappunto con il Maestro Davide Merello presso l'Istituto Diocesano di Musica di Chiavari (GE). Nel 2013 inizia il corso di musica elettronica dove inizia a studiare con il Maestro Roberto Doati presso il Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini di Genova. Nel marzo 2017 ha conseguito la laurea triennale. Nell'ottobre 2016 ha iniziato il master in musica elettronica al Conservatorio Paganini con il Maestro Daniele Ghisi. Nell'autunno del 2018 ha svolto uno stage presso la Hochschule für musik und theatre di Amburgo, dove ha studiato con il professor George Hajdu e il professor Alexander Schubert.

Maria Isolina Cozzani https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCV1dc7hFI0U2xrHCGieIdeM0kdMhzFm0aRQwKoDQO0/edit