Sunday 17 June 2012, 20.30 - Teatro della Pergola

Concert

John Malkovich and the Technobohemians

John Malkovich, voice
Ksenia Kogan, piano
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Anna Tifu, violin
Duccio Ceccanti, violin
Daniel Palmizio, viola
Stefano Zanobini, viola
Nina Kotova, cello
Vittorio Ceccanti, cello
Simone Beneventi, percussion
Giuseppe Andaloro, keyboard
Julian Kovatchev, conductor

Programme in English.

Glass: Whichita Vortex Sutra
Iglesias: Factory of Silence
Iglesias: A Registered Patent
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence in D minor, Op. 70

Factory of Silence is a piece Alberto Iglesias wrote in 2005. It is the second part of a larger piece titled "Orfeo in Palermo" in which "F.o S." would represent the moment in which Orfeo arrives to Hell and, with his melodious voice, drags Eurydice to real world under the awful threat of not looking back.  Hell is considered to be a great factory of silence.  Silence is considered to be a product exuded from the machines that manufacture time and a threat that surrounds Orfeo´s song pursuing light.

Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) uses silence installations and yet sounds, music and conversations are important elements of this work. Although Muñoz was one of the first sculptors of his generation to return to figuration in the mid-1980s, the ideas of artistic and musical minimalism and concept art echo in his works. A Registered Patent (2001) is his last radio play.

Alberto Iglesias, with whom Muñoz had worked on other projects, has set this radio play to music together with the great actor John Malkovich.