Sunday 25 March  2012

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str / 8.30pm

Entrance: Free

Screening: Beethoven & Resonance
Live Recording from Auditorium San Fedele in Milan, June 2011
Duration: 68’


This film materializes an innovative artistic project by offering a dynamic listening of Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 119 and Op. 126, alternately with 12 short pieces written by young composers who were finalists in the San Fedele Prize. It offers renewed listening of Beethoven’s final piano works, creating a surprising sense of expectation by discontinuing already memorized listening patterns. Another original feature of this film is its collective making, an unusual fact for a prize for young artists. Instead of requiring a personal piece from each composer, this project sought to elicit a common venture in which each composition would be at once a part of an ensemble and an autonomous, personal piece of work.

The main goal of the San Fedele Prize, and its distinguishing feature, is to offer young composers a humanistic and artistic formation course focused on integrating the problematic of musical technique within a larger horizon of the meaning of life and being human. This project, although undoubtedly complex and not risk-free, resonates with the ever-growing desire of today’s composers to enter in a dynamic dialogue with the past.