Music, dance, interactive projections and light games: after the success of Blanca Li's Paris Grand Ball, Festival dei Due Mondi once again invites its audience to take part to a new immersive experience, to take off your shoes, take a breath and enter the imagined world from Adrien M & Claire B. The duo opera in the field of digital arts since 2004 with creations that merge reality and virtual world thanks to specially developed computer tools. Last Minute - at Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò until July 14 (days and times can be found at www.festivaldispoleto.com) - is a powerful installation: a journey through a space in which each viewer can move by following the combination of elements as if he or she were a particle, now a drop, now a burning flame, now rising smoke, now quivering ash. The duo's latest work was born from an intimate lived experience from Claire Bardainne: "One day in May 2021," she says, "I scattered my father's ashes by the sea, not far from the bay of Mont St Michel, his childhood home. The awe-inspiring beauty of this moment, the light of this minute stretched to infinity, where my father's body extends to the world, is imprinted in me. Where the dust of his body binds with the earth, the air and the water. My father has become immense, limitless, and his time no longer exists; he has become suspended in the present. I am pregnant, and as life organizes itself in me to form a new body, life has left another. In a game of mirrors, one body grows while another disintegrates. A father has just left and a son is on the way. Vertigo." Last Min ute is a reflection on the end, it is the minute before we die or the minute before we are born, it is a ritual designed to take care of our mourning, our births and our metamorphoses. Adrien M, a multidisciplinary artist, also brings to Spoleto the concert Piano, piano, scheduled at the Auditorium della Stella (July 13-14): a novel device with refined video projections mixes digital juggling with the delicate sound universe of the eclectic musician BABX. Literally immersed in an "image space," the instrument and the musician become the protagonists of a dreamlike epic that oscillates between abstraction and impressionism. Making suspended vibrations visible, feeling the vibration of a chord, but also seeing silence and listening to darkness. "In this project I develop a series of tools to play with the images and allow the video projection to be as alive as possible, to breathe with the rhythm as much as with the sound of the notes," says Adrien M. "I put the music in motion and juggle with a metaphorical material, designing digital systems of masses, gravity, inertia that recreate the play of forces and invent a theater of physical balance." In a bare space, the image embodies the missing notes of the music.
