Francesco Perissi - "quI/Ora"

X6 project

X6 is a project for augmented electric guitar spatialized in 6.1 channels. The idea of the name comes from the encounter between the solo project of electronic music "XO" and the number of speakers required for the execution of the performance. With the X6 configuration, thanks to a special "splitter box", it is possible to pick up the audio signal from hexaphonic pick-up of the instrument and direct it toward the preamplifiers, obtaining as a result an electric guitar that individually distributes the signal of each string in each speaker . The two songs composed for this configuration: "1" and "quI/Ora", have sound coming from the electroacoustic music, electronic and rock. The instrument is played live while the electronics is developed autonomously thanks to the automation of the filtering.

quI/Ora

The opera quI/Ora wants to describe the illusory nature of the time. The title of composition is formed by the union of famous yogic phrase “here and now” with the informatic symbol I/O, which rapresents the input/output of an interface.

Trough breathing in and out, human being is constantly in close contact with external, likewise the exchange of informatic data that happen inside the peripheral devices, I-O. Deep concentration achieved through breath permits to dissolve the perception of time and to became aware of reality: here and now. The main character of this music perfomance is a polifonic elettric guitar. Every string of the guitar has separated amplification and the audio signals are spatialized in 6 speakers and processed with electronic.

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