Lament: A Sound Ritual
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments constitute some of the oldest forms of writing, and examples exist across human cultures. Lament is a sound ritual where analogue and digital sounds merge. It is a celebration of the power of sound, evoking such territories as the Jewish and Romanian doina, the Southern Italian lamentazioni, the Scottish pibroch (piobaireachd), the Albanian and Greek meditative styles and the conventional fixture of the heroine’s lament in baroque opera. These references are blended with today’s electronics and processing. Not categorisable into a specific genre or style, Lament has been described by critics as a “shamanic action” and an “unforgettable experience”.
Roberto Paci Dalò: composition, clarinet, bass clarinet, voice, live electronics
Production: Giardini Pensili, Transcultures
Philip Jeck (1952-2022)
Roberto Masotti (1947-2022)
Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022)
in memoriam
