Residual Ecologies vol. I
Gaggiano, Lauro, Azzan

Antonio Gaggiano, percussion
Maurizio Azzan and Pasquale Lauro, sound direction

Pasquale Lauro (1999)
Slough (for snare drum and live electronics)

Maurizio Azzan (1987)
Tides slush over the walls (for bassnicophone, timpani and electronics)

25’ | Admission with museum ticket

With the project Residual Ecologies, percussionist Antonio Gaggiano, together with sound directors Maurizio Azzan and Pasquale Lauro, transforms the Fruttiere of Palazzo Te—one of the new venues of Trame Sonore—into a true sonic laboratory, where matter comes to life and instrumental tradition engages in dialogue with technology.

In Lauro’s Slough, the snare drum becomes a pulsating organism: each stroke generates an electronic trail that expands into space, allowing the performer’s gesture to interact with electronics. The journey continues with Azzan’s Tides slush over the walls, whose evocative title seems to dissolve the physical boundaries of the Fruttiere: the deep sound of the timpani and the vibrations of the bassnicophone merge with electronics, creating a sonic tide capable of enveloping the audience.

A concert that offers an immersive and contemporary experience, showing how even the most unusual sounds can give rise to a poetry capable of speaking to our present and our future.

Text by Antonio Pio Caliendo