Just Intonation

JUST INTONATION

written and directed by Lorenzo Bazzocchi
with Eleonora Sedioli
physical computing, sound and lighting: Lorenzo Bazzocchi
electronics: Matteo Gatti
scenery: Eleonora Sedioli
production: Masque Teatro
www.masque.it

The performance takes place in the framework of the project Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts.


photo: Lorenzo Bazzocchi

Just Intonation epitomises the long research that Masque carried out on Franz Kafka, through the theoretical diagram by Gilles Deleuze. Our new work Just Intonation drops the machines of The Kafka Machine but retains the animal component ... waiting for the danger to materialise. Two destinies are at the centre of the story: the destiny of the instrument and the destiny of the figure. There are still the body and the movement who make the form imperceptible. The body-woman is becoming-secret, hiding nothing, by means of innocence and precision, even at the cost of a frightful technicality.
Just Intonation is a work to decode. The pianist who doesn't play creates sound by not playing and its musicality is spread in the whole body insofar as it doesn't utter any music.
Just Intonation is a sound-body. We move away from the melodic horizontality heading for harmony and long silences: a verticality of glissandi on intensity and frequency, a slight progression with a rhythm broken when originating a body-sound, without any appendage or prosthesis.

Masque teatro was founded by Lorenzo Bazzocchi and Catia Gatelli in Bertinoro (1992). In 1998, Eleonora Sedioli - stage designer and performer - became part of the company. The visionary strength of their theatre is expressed through the complex dialogue that the company develops between the philosophy, the creation of scenic architectures and the essential role of Figures. Prigione detto Atlante (Myfest - Glasgow, 1994), Coefficente di Fragilita (Triennale of Milan, 1998), Omaggio a Nicola Tesla (Bitef Festival, Belgrade 2003), Postanovscik (Orto del fuoco - Forli 2004), Materia Cani Randagi (Nobodaddy - Ravenna 2009), La macchina di Kafka (Santarcangelo 39 Festival) represent the apices of a search based on the production of images, events where material and virtual join in order to make original creations. In 2000, they received the special jury's Ubu Award for the Prototipo project and in 2002 the Francesca Alinovi Award for artistic activity. Masque been the conceptual leader and curator of the Crisalide Festival since 1994.