again rubbed smooth is a project created by violist Victor Guaita Igual andaccordionist Carlo Sampaolesi.
The duo bases its practice on the research and deep study of Memory as a compositional technique and extemporary creation.
The two, intimately sitting opposite each other, enter into a ten- minute improvisation in which each gesture, sound and relationship with the other must be memorised. At the end of the first improvisation, after a few seconds of silence, the piece starts again at the beginning, already a ghost unfolding simultaneously with the recent memory of the original. The process is repeated, every ten minutes, in a continuous cycle in which each sound-gesture reappears as the recollection of a previous event. Only what is remembered is played, and the rest is left into stasis. This process of 'erasure' of the material allows what is essential to remain, while creating a tension in listening due to the continuous wandering within memories that constitutes the performative action.
again rubbed smooth is a project that can be presented either as a concert,establishing a set number of repetitions of the first improvisation, or in the formof a sound installation in which the audience, after listening to the first ten minutes, can come and go as they please. One will thus experience the initialpiece, as reference, as seed, as the matrix from which all the consecutiveiterations originate. The slow process of transformation in memory that leads tothe creation of something new.
TRASCENDANZA x FANGO RADIO // Divenire Altro live recording again rubbed smooth
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