SPIME.IM exploits a variety of audio/video digital processing techniques, including databending and datamoshing, computer vision analysis and tracking, spectral processing, 3D graphics, and automated audio-video montage in the making of this performance.
The result is a major-length piece with exquisite melodies and dramatic chaos mixed into a musical story, describing the imminent death of the World from misguided governments and industries, and ends with our hope for survival.
The project is named after Melnyk’s eponymous 2018 piano composition, giving form to a more complete, monumental and collaborative work, in which each section is able to depart from the principal concept in multiple acoustic directions.
The End Of The World is an impactful immersive experience: musical interaction between electronics and the piano is obtained by real-time processing of the midi information from Melnyk's disklavier piano. The notes and the dynamics of the played piano are used as an analog sequencer and there is audiovisual correlation between sound and images, based on parameters and real datasets deriving from current climatic changes and environmental events. The archiving of scientific data thus becomes a sort of extrasensory perception: a construction of knowledge as a network, community and beyond time.
PAST PERFORMANCES
- Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia, Italy) 2021
- Lev Festival (Gijon, Spain) 2022
- Electrones Libres (Nantes. France, 2022)
- The Barbican: a special collaboration with the Shards choir and featuring Elina Nechayeva soprano (London, United Kingdom) 2023.
Composition by Lubomyr Melnyk (piano), with Julia Kent (cello), and SPIME.IM (electronic music and visual interventions)
Artistic production and project manager: Danilo Cardillo (Basemental)
Production manager: Marco Casolati
Sound Engineer: Maurizio Borgna
SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM / PARTNERS
The End Of The World is co-produced by Superbudda (Italy) , LEV Festival (Spain), Nextones (Italy), Snaporazverein (Switzerland), and Fondazione I Teatri
Reggio Emilia / Festival Aperto (Italy) in collaboration with TOurDays and Basemental.
During the projects development phase some of the travels have been supportedby the I-portunus European program.