LUIGI TURRA - Diastima

“Good evening dear Sylvain, I’ve recorded a performance of your score #86. Best regards, L.”

It begins here, in September 2022, with the union of Sylvain Chauveau's art of graphic notation and the sound practice of Luigi Turra. An almost natural fusion between kindred sensibilities, both poised between visual art and sound. What they share is a deeply poetic approach to their respective disciplines, the elegance of the minimal gesture, and the active value of the pause as a meaningful space of expectation.

Neither component aims to define a finished narrative arc, acting instead as a trace oriented toward triggering an emotional response. This is where the two paths converge, in the intent to offer themselves as a sensory coordinate to react to. Lines, dots, sharp geometries, occasional accompanying notes become the stimulus from which electroacoustic textures devoted to reduction take shape. This is Turra's chosen territory, made of fragments, drones, lashes of sound and, above all, silence. A substrate that is tactile, not only in the resonance of wood and metal, but also when instrumental droplets and the warmth of the voice emerge.

A combination made only of what is indispensable, condensed into a few seconds or stretched out over more than a quarter of an hour. Within it, several external contributions fit together perfectly, specifically the electronics of Vittorio Guindani, the clarinet of Pierre Gerard and piano samples by Chauveau himself. Remarkable is the physical form of the work – an elegant booklet holding the CD in its final page – curated by Fabio Perletta's 901 Editions. Taken as a whole, the work contributes to creating an immersive visual-aural environment that asks only for presence.

All that's left is to step in and sit down to watch the sound, imagining possible landscapes.

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04/06/2026