Una prossima occasione per presentare estesamente il suo Tintinnabulation con lo studio e il lavoro compositivo compiuto attorno alle consonanze di piano, contrabbasso, campane scolpite a mano e canto naturale degli uccelli si presenterà presto per Marcus Vergette - la prossima settimana, a Dartington Trust - resa preziosa anche dagli interventi tra gli altri di Kate e Mike Westbrook. Intanto la versione 'ridotta' proposta ieri a Londra assieme al pianista Matthew Bourne e quattro abili operatori alle enormi campane si è conquistata la curiosità e la calorosa partecipazione del pubblico accorso nell'affascinante sede del Barbican Conservatory per una doppia iniziativa collettiva curata dalla piccola ma intraprendente etichetta Nonclassical sul tema dell'ecologia (anche sonora) e della salvaguardia del pianeta in epoca di emergenze climatiche: The Greenhouse Effect.
Dalle note del programma: "Among the array of new works will be the first performance of sculptor and musician Marcus Vergette’s Tintinnabulation, which uses the sound of bells he made by hand, accompanied by piano, double bass and bird calls. The work explores the idea of a world with birds and a world without them. Listen to the sounds of bells on wheels and smaller, handheld bells as you wander around the Conservatory and discover changing experiences to the sound as you move in relation to them. ‘Your movement alters the sound because bells create a complex resonance that changes according to your location as opposed to stringed instruments such as the piano and the bass,’ he says. ‘It’s like a rainbow - everyone can see it, but it’s different for each person.’ Vergette is particularly interested in the resonance of bells and the things that happen while they’re ringing. ‘Different frequencies appear to blossom out of the reverberation. And that’s what I want to play with,’ he says. ‘Bells create a very unusual type of soundwave. It’s like a giant vibrating jelly because the whole cone reverberates. When you play a string, it’s just a little sound through space and time. Whereas when you get caught inside a bell and the frequencies it creates, some are hardly audible, but you still feel them.’