How simple and yet how difficult can it be to make music?

Musique concrète (2015-2020) by Cecilia Arditto and a percussion player consists of several shorter pieces for everyday, second-hand objects (such as a sewing machine, scissors, ventilators or string telephone), tape and slide projectors. The two performers manipulate those sounding objects as well as the slide projectors at different spots of a darkened space, which results in a site-specific performance, a dialogue between musicians, objects, and architecture. Experiencing this cycle might also give the audience a kind of ASMR feeling. Question your tea spoons, French writer Georges Perec once wrote. Well, could you question them by making music with them?

Cecilia Arditto studied at the Conservatorio Julián Aguirre, in CEAMC Buenos Aires and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she graduated cum laude. Arditto’s music is performed all over the world: Borealis Festival (Norway), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Innovations en Concert (Canada), and Festival Rümlingen (Switzerland), among others. She won the first prize in the prestigious Rychenberg Orchestra Competition 2020. Her cycle Musique concrète represented The Netherlands at the ISCM World Music Days Festival 2022 in New Zealand. She won the first prize of the National Opera in Mannheim in 2021 by writing an opera based on Albert Camus’ most famous book L’étranger.

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