[of sound]
Ruben Mattia Santorsa:
Reverse Expectations
– one-on-one performance
5. & 6.3.2023
March 5th, 2023
14:00
14:20
14:40
15:00
15:40
16:00
16:20
17:00
March 6th, 2023
14:00
14:20
14:40
15:00
15:40
16:00
16:20
16:40
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Electric guitar and music: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Duration: 12/15 minutes per session
Reverse Expectations is a project for one electric guitar player and a single listener: a one to one concert-performance. The guitar player plays in front of just one person. The musician and the person sit in front of each other. The guitar player has his instrument and his pedals, the sounds are processed through them and both the person and the musician can listen to the result through headphones, in a low-fi, intimate way. The spectator can choose among three pieces, without knowing in advance how they sound. The choice is based only on the suggestion she/he/they can have from the title of the pieces. It’s possible to repeat the experience twice in one hour, also by choosing again the same piece. The experience of the performance will be different each time.
*One pair of headphones will be provided for the public. You can bring your personal headphones if you prefer. All hygiene measures will be taken in order to create a safe and healthy event. The headphones will be protected with single use covers and sterilized after the usage.
About artist
Ruben Mattia Santorsa (1992) is an Italian classical and electric guitarist based between Basel and Berlin. Contemporary music is currently at the heart of his work and his artistic manifesto. He firmly believes that through it we can convey a message of openness, acceptance and social, political and cultural renewal, much needed in today’s society. He premiered pieces of composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Giulia Lorusso and Clara Iannotta. In addition to his career as a soloist, he is also continuing his research on contemporary music in chamber music. He has a duo with a German guitar player Adrian Pereyra . They played in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Ruben Mattia performs regularly with ensembles and orchestras such as Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tonhalle Zürich, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Mosaik Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, MDI Ensemble, NEC Ensemble and Sonemus Ensemble, with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Enno Poppe, Matthias Pintscher, Peter Eötvös, Marin Alsop in the KKL Lucerne, Elbphilharmonie of Hamburg, Philharmonie Berlin and Victoria Hall Geneve. He gave a lecture about the Contemporary guitar in Paris (Conservatoire Supérieur de musique et danse), Boston (New England Conservatory), Chicago (Northwestern University), Lisbon (Escola Superior de Música) and Sevilla (Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo). He won the scholarship Swiss Government Excellence for the years 2013-2015, which was conferred to the best students who have been admitted to a Swiss university.
The one-on-one performance is part of [of sound] sonic arts exhibition organised in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery between March 5th–30th, 2023.
The exhibition has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Musiikin edistämissäätiön (MES).