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Video-Opera: An Index of Metals – false twins
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Astrid Karger
Ictus Ensemble
Three films are projected onto three screens and enter into a dialogue with music for soprano and eleven amplified instruments. The tremendous forces of corrosion or deformation and the glowing of metal surfaces are explored in music and image. The sound is thought of as matter, and is modelled through electro-acoustic processes into porous or dense, rigid or warping sound formations.
Lichtenstein to Pink Floyd
Romitelli had the tendency to surround himself with a complex mandala of pop symbols: Lichtenstein’s painting Drowning Girl inspired the libretto; he found his samples in Pink Floyd, and in Robert Fripp and Brian Eno the poetry of heavy metal, the cold glinting colours and the fall into pure noise at the end. Although Romitelli’s piece not directly influenced by Fripp and Eno, there is a striking and significant connection between the two works with the same titled. Fripp und Eno’s "An Index of Metals", from 1975, is an approximately half-hour-long guitar solo, which Kobe Van Couwenberghe reconstructs at the beginning of the concert with the grainy sound of two historical tape machines, the famous "Frippertronics" loop system.