Francesca Fabrizi / Enrico Malatesta: Jakob Ullmann

pareti di carta evokes an architecture of domestic memory. The piece intertwines in rhythmic patterns, tones, noise bands and vitrified field recordings. Each sound source represents different ways of remembering: from the sudden arrival of a memory, like a seismic shock, to the soft appearance of distant figures, faded by time. Glass sources in the space act as aural seismographs that register invisible tremors. The house of memory trembles like a fleeting sound. In this fragile composition, resonance becomes both a method of recall and a measure of what slips away.

A unique voice in contemporary percussion, Enrico Malatesta explores the physical nature of sound through an approach that is both minimal and radical at the same time. His performances reveal the hidden resonances of simple materials – leather, wood, metal – transforming percussive gestures into intricate sonic microscopies, which explore the relationships between music, space and movement with particular attention to modes of listening. In Venice, the artist presents the world premiere of the composition Solo VI by the German composer and organist Jakob Ullmann for percussion and audio reproduction devices. Ullman’s music explores the margins of perception, working with threshold volumes and durations that extend beyond the classical format of a concert, inviting the listener to listen carefully at the interstice between silence and the vibrational response of sound.