4 - 6, Wind Pressure Concert, 2021, Silos Granario, Livorno. Projection of Juan Pablo Macías’s work skyscapes_on cloud-life. Ph: Iacopo Seri
Wind Pressure Concert, 2021
Silos Granario, Port of Livorno, IT
by Silvia Hell
Piano performance by Marco Lenzi
With an introduction to the concert by Silvia Hell and Marco Lenzi and happening by Iacopo Seri
Wind Pressure Concert is a concert for piano and particulate matter conceived by the artist Silvia Hell, performed and interpreted by Marco Lenzi in the Silos Granario in the Port of Livorno, recently reopened to the public.
In a sort of space-time short circuit, a composition centred around air will be experienced.
The regulations adopted to fight pollution foresee thresholds and limits not to be exceeded on a daily and annual basis, but the way these are communicated varies between the different geographical areas examined.
The score uses this ‘discrepancy’ as a source of potential for the musician Marco Lenzi, and will consist of a chronology of PM 2.5 concentrations recorded at the station closest to the port of Livorno – via Carducci – from 2008 to 2020, with two different air-quality interval systems: one determined by Arpat Toscana and the other by Arpa Lombardia. Lenzi freely encodes the score and performs it on the piano.
“The atmosphere of Livorno anticipated this event from afar, accompanying me to Milan and elsewhere. I immersed myself in Juan Pablo Macías’s work skyscapes_on cloud-life, which updated On Air every day, and on this occasion a collaboration was created, projecting the archive of Livorno skies during the concert at the Silos Granario.” — Silvia Hell
curated by Juan Pablo Macías & Alessandra Poggianti
in collaboration with Eva Brioschi, Valentina Costa, Iacopo Seri and Daniela Tazzi
a project part of AIR TIME
in partnership with the Little Bit Festival, Livorno
and with En plein air Gastprojekt des Kunstraum München