Description
World Premiere Recordings with a bonus interview between Marcus Weiss and Giorgio Netti.
One could designate this cycle as a small odyssey of breathing, becoming acoustically transformed from the body?/?space into the body?/?material and body?/?instrument of tradition. It narrates a journey and return; the piece carries on the tradition of the ??st?? (the poems of the Iliad, describing the return of the Greeks to their homeland after the conquest of Troy), whereby the viola assumes the role of the narrator, simultaneously serving as a narrating voice and the location of the journey: of the expanded acoustical space as a slow return to the instrument, as separation and rebirth.
Featuring Anna Spina on Viola with Benoit as sound director, the performance of this work is from Vienna's Stephansdom (Wien Modern Festival 2016) and it was an outstanding success.