Illàchime Quartet

Sounds and rumors gathered from a changeable and inconstant external world form the base for the interventions of the musicians of rough and terse lines, sometimes minimalistic and disharmonic, often improvised. the sound is that that would evoke the idea of cinematographic music and has as a characteristic and solely constant element a strong and continuous tension pervading each composition.

In this imaginary film which runs slowly and nervously, the voices of the engine of a silos sampled in the port of Naples; the sound ambiance in the courtyard in Moscow on a winter’s day, the birdsong; become the ideal background sounds. The same goes for a faulty microphone which becomes a perfect bass drum.

Over these elements the musicians intervene as a contemporary music quartet. they create parts following circular sequences, interact with electronic machines and add to this the use of acoustic instruments – piano, guitar and cello – along with disturbed and disturbing electro-acoustic insertions whose rhythmical elements play with broken time patterns of a nervous character. The idea of continuous interchange between sounds and noise taken from surrounding reality which is shut out and the interventions of the musicians closed in, gives life to the structure on which the live show project I.Q. leans. A visionary concert that nears the dimension of dreams aiming at touching the deeper emotions of the listener, it aims at linking the public to the four musicians on a stage in a common inward experience.

With I.Q. collaborate the cellist Marco di Palo, the drummers Daniele Bucci and Carlo di Gennaro, the guitarist Mimmo Fusco, the musician Marco Pierno, the artist Federico Fernicola, the webmaster Tony Carnevale, the graphic studio Etacom, the video-maker Giuseppe Bella.

Illàchime Quartet live: This spectacle, despite having many synthetic sounds among its components, owes most of its character to the instrumental interventions of the musicians whose contributions are both acoustical and electro-acoustical. The musician interact using the sound at choice from the reality of musical sounds they are interpreting in the form of obligations and improvisation. In this way the samples which are played during the performance rather than limiting the musicians allow them to express themselves and interact freely this inverting the traditional relationship between man and machine the sounds and musical interventions are continuously intense, incessant, nervous and ever growing with a rough tension. The I.Q. music aims abolishing any filtering between artist and public. The ultimate objective is to embrace the musicians and public to a point of completeness that becomes an osmosis of deep sensations and emotions.

Live I.Q. presents itself as a contemporary music quartet of austere visual aspect which interprets cinematographic music with strongly disturbing expressive elements; this sound is essential and thorny and long frames images intertwining with minimalism, post rock and hints of dark. This creating a blatantly transversal sound. seventy minutes of intense interchange between music and reality.

Read more on the official Illàchime Quartet website.

Artists: Fabrizio Elvetico & Gianluca Paladino.

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