Madrigali d’invenzione
Itinierant sound installation in the Reale Accademia di Spagna in Rome
Madrigali d’invenzione is an itinerant sound project composed by a cycle of chamber music pieces for six instrumentalists, electronics, objects and video imagined by Tomás Jesús Ocaña-González.
It creates a dialogue between the works of Giambattista Piranesi and Carlo Gesualdo, brought together, transformed and (re)constructed through the perspective of a 21st-century viewer. The density of lines that Piranesi employs in his Carceri d’invenzione has always struck me as closely linked to the chromatic density typically used by Carlo Gesualdo in his Renaissance madrigals. These madrigals are evoked through pre-recorded tapes that interact with the acoustic instruments, unfolding through processes of superimposition and distortion.
The intricate work of these composers is translated into my music as sonic illusions and interwoven architectural structures that explore, activate and revitalise the Academy’s acoustic spaces in an itinerant format between the Salón de Retratos, the Cloister (with the library and surrounding offices), and the Residents’ Garden.
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