Venezia, 20 Oct. (askanews) – A phenomenological reading of the sound of bells, which becomes a bodily vibration, but also, in the spirit of this Biennale Musica, a sort of sound that comes from cosmic distances. Luka Aron presented his work “Up in the Bell Tower” in Venice.
“I work with recordings of church bells from all over Europe – the musician told askanews – from Venice to Stockholm, passing through the Black Forest, which is my home. I use these recordings in a very direct, but also poetic way, trying to be inspired by these sounds that have accompanied us for centuries and by what they evoke”.
Aron’s workwhich participated in the Biennale College, focuses on inharmonious aspects of bellswhich he himself does not consider a musical instrument. And it offers the viewer a significant change of perspective. “It is essentially a matter of tuning in to these sounds from the perspective of the bells – he added – therefore not from the street, but from the top of the bell towers: in this way an experience is created which is also physical of the extreme sonority of the bells and also of their disharmonicity, which however we can accept and perceive as more harmonious”.
By experiencing the show you find yourself experiencing different sensations ranging from the unknown to the knownfrom mystery to everyday life, in a continuous search for imperfect and real balance. “Technology – concluded Luka Aron – is just an instrument, even a bell in itself is a technological product, albeit an older one. I use what I need to create the sounds I want to obtain”.
Sounds that also have something mystical, especially in the parts where they are more abstract and not recognizable as being produced by the bells whose secret life we can somehow discover.
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