A performance for solo guitar and objects coming on top of a decade-long sonic exploration of the potentialities of the guitar as a pure sound generator by Modena-based composer and musician Luca Perciballi (whom the most devoted listeners of Kohlhaas catalog may recall playing electric and acoustic guitar in Alessandro Bosetti's album "
Didone").
In Perciballi's performance the gestures and signs of the body are assembled together and conveyed according to the contemporary modalities of the augmented guitar: electronics, preparations of the instrument and foot percussion.
The result is a continuum of noises, archaic melodies, polyrhythms ranging from full electric amplification through pure acoustic sound, up to the use of prepared speakers, appearing as an obscure, vibrant percussion, partly electric and partly acoustic.
Body, objects, space and sound make up a possible theatre for a single performer.
Luca Perciballi is a guitarist, composer and sound designer from Italy. His work is focused on instrumental practice and a compositional gesture that starts from a performative gesture. Perciballi pursues a research where the structure is dominated by sound as an organoleptic agent, related to a dense network of references and memories.
His activity as a musician covers a wide range of experiences: mainly he performs in the field of creative improvisation but he's comfortable with the jazz idiom. As al composer Perciballi writes music for small and large ensemble, ranging from film music to theatre and dance acts.
