Montreal’s Studio d’Essai will host an event entitled “The Enlightment”, a “concert d’electricité” under the direction of Quiet Ensemble’s Fabio Di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli. The initiative has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, in partnership with Les Productions Recto-Verso. “The Enlightenment” replaces a traditional orchestra with an impressive lighting system.
Stage lights follow the melody, keeping the downbeat or syncopation, while neon lights and strobe slights replace traditional violins, clarinets and drums. Special amplification systems and sound manipulations, buzzes, rings, whispers and the transformation of the electrical disturbances coming from incandescent lamps disclose the sound potential of electric energy.
By shedding light on darkness, the Quiet Ensemble offers a powerful concert featuring the bright hidden music of pure light.
The Quiet Ensemble was founded in 2009 from the encounter of diverse professional experiences and expressions. Fabio Di Salvo devotes his time to experimenting and developing interactive videos through state-of-the-art audiovisual manipulation software; Bernardo Vercelli graduated in theatrical scenography in Norway and worked as a light designer in Copenhagen, Denmark. Together, they developed an interest for the cross-fertilisation of different modes of expression based on new technologies by focusing on the relationship between light and sound in a specific environment, with the aim of revealing common ground through different perspectives.
