Vito Palumbo - Skin III [w/score]

Vito Palumbo - Skin III for guitar and live electronics (2023) Performers: Arturo Tallini - guitar Francesco Abbrescia - live electronics Live recording - Summer Imola Music Festival, 24 July 2024 Skin III, for guitar and live electronics, explores the intimate relationship between touch, timbre and resonance. An ethereal, fluid opening unfolds through delicate attacks, suspended sounds and silences, gradually gathering rhythmic energy. Changes of playing position, articulation and dynamics continually reshape the guitar’s colour, bringing the smallest details of its sonic surface into focus. Electronics extend this tactile instrumental world into a broader field of sound and space. The dialogue between the two performers connects the immediacy of the guitar’s physical gestures with electronic transformation, creating a musical fabric that moves between fragility and intensity, continuity and interruption. Close listening becomes a way of discovering the instrument anew. The final ideographic pages featuring colored shapes serve merely as psycho-perceptual prompts for the two performers, allowing them to improvise each time freely based on their own spontaneous, personal impressions. Vito Palumbo ---------------------- This video was produced with kindest permission of composer.