From April 23rd to 27th we are waiting for you at the Lucca Classica Music Festival!

Music will invade every corner of the city, from morning until late at night. The squares, historic buildings, churches, theatres and all the spaces that can accommodate sounds, culture and beauty will become the beating heart of this extraordinary edition.

Differentiated music. Materials in concert

Playing with an empty can is fun for every self-respecting child”.

Often objects have more than one use. A bag can become a mask or a balloon, an empty can can be a ball or a maraca, a sheet of paper turns into a toy airplane.

Taking inspiration from this simple truth, we want to address a very current issue, such as separate waste collection, focusing on a particular topic that characterizes our research: sound.

Let's start from the concept that every material has its own sound. Each of us notices it when we throw empty bottles into the glass bell jar (just to evoke a sound that remains impressed). But it's not just glass that plays! Wood plays, plastic plays, paper plays, iron plays and, if we think about it, even the organic sounds. Percussionists know well that every material has its own sound: in the infinite percussion instrumentation there are instruments made with all possible materials (or almost). And every object can become an instrument on which to create rhythm. Society's ever-increasing attention to the problem of waste, its excessive production and the way to reuse it concerns all sectors of the economic and social fabric of all the continents of the earth but it is in the West that, at the beginning of the 20th century, people began to worry and look for political, economic and cultural solutions to this problem. On the one hand, politicians, scientists and economists are looking for practical solutions, on the other, the world of schools, philosophers and artists with their works contribute to the development of a collective conscience around the topic. It is on the basis of these brief considerations and the attention to "sound" and "rhythm" that the idea of ​​creating a project that addresses this topic from a musical point of view was born. The project includes six sections distinguished by the materials used. MORE INFO