ÉTUDE

étude explores the other performativities of the pianist

depersonalising the piano timbre

and looking for other sound scopes

the result is a concert-installation with a programe composed by pieces that work on the outsides of the piano technique

the programe is framed by a sonic exploration of the instrument through electronics 

the gesture acts as a link between the pieces

and as a liberation act for the performer

Première June 27th 2024

Miry Concertzaal. Gent

Poto by Tobias Jansen @tobi_jonson

LETO

Exploring sound through gesture

A solo project by Marina Delicado

Compositions for dance, film and theatre.

BY HER HANDS

2 1/2 octaves from elbow to fingertips, 2 octaves from elbow to fist and palm of hand from major 7th to a minor 9th

by her hands is a solo piano study performed by two bodies. The music piece Shadow (2013) Study for Solo Piano by Rebecca Saunders explores acoustic resonance in the use of clusters, a piano technique that requires broad gestures on the pianist arms and hands.Through the detailed instructions given to the body, the music score invites us to carry this research further into an embodied exploration that results into a deeper physical understanding of the music. exMarina Delicado and Helen D’Haenens question why and how to perform this, rather rebellious, contemporary music pieces in an attempt to step out of a classical established frame. 

Creation and performance by Helen D’Haenens & Marina Delicado

Music score: Shadow (2013) Study for Solo Piano by Rebecca Saunders

With the support of ONOFFSPACE, deSingel Arts Center

Artistic direction: María Gea

Special tanks to Vera Tussing

Première on June 26th 2023 at DeSingel International Arts Center, Antwerp (BE)

DELICADO // COMELLES

this is a sound exploration proposal around the possibilities of the piano as an extended instrument and its manipulation through electronic means in real time creation. The unpredictability, the reliance, the musical and sound background of its members are the recipe to delve into the acoustic and electronic universe made of layers and textures, polyrhythms, colour games and cacophonies in which the instruments (piano and electronics) interleave and mingle.

the result is pierced by different styles and genres in which the two artists travel comfortably inhabiting uncertain and bordering spaces; in this manner their works dance between the newest electronic music and the contemporary classical language, the ambient and the most visceral and physical concrete music.