Concerto senza titolo (Untitled concert) – the new theatrical show by ConiglioViola and Antonella Ruggiero – is a poetical investigation on the greatest taboo of contemporary culture: the Death. This reticence is particularly evident in a field of our culture that has always been one of the main centers of interest in ConiglioViola’s artistic research: pop culture.

In High Fidelity Nick Hornby wrote “In pop music there are no many songs about death, at least not many good songs”.

This statement of  fact  immediately became a challenge for ConiglioViola. Not only we have looked for some good songs about death, but – to make the challenge even more exciting – we have chosen only Italian songs.

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The electronic orchestration gives to these classical songs of Italian tradition a new contemporary fit. We find interesting to put in relation the electronic scene with the Italian melodic repertory.

On the stage the songs are executed by Antonella Ruggiero suspended inside a skirt installation that makes her 3 meters tall, an electric string quartet, a moving touch piano and the electronic live set.

The choice of using classical instruments (like the string quartet) in their electric version is related to the concert theme, to the idea of dematerialization.

Each musical execution is accompanied by the projection of videos created by ConiglioViola and screened through the utilization of new technologies, such as holographic projections.

The use of these very new systems of projection is related to the concept of the project because consents us to materialize, on the stage, ghosts and spirits.

The center of the scene is occupied also by a moving-touch piano, whose keys move without the human intervention. The code of the piano, when opened, will assume the semblance of an open coffin.

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Musicians and performers are  black dressed and move on completely black backgrounds, exclusively enlighten by VOOD lamps. This way, the reprise of another theatrical tradition, the Black Light Theatre,  gives to the audience the illusion that the instruments are played by ghosts…

The not-title of the project is also referred to this dimension of absence. When a new document is opened in any informatics application, this is automatically named “Untitled document”. This blank space, still to be filled, will be the aesthetic dimension of this new production.