 François
Girard, explores the deep relationship between music and
architecture. New resources in virtual technology permit
the film, with unlimited daring, to explore an imaginary
collaboration between architect Giambattista Piranesi
(1720-1778) and musician Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) with his ‘Suite Number 2 for Cello
Solo’.“Most people listen to Yo-Yo Ma
playing”, says Girard, “by means of a laser
disc compacted in plastic. They submit to an illusion of
a cello in their real own space. Piranesi’s
architectonic fantasies are the affirmation that
architecture is much more than something concrete on
which we may tread. Architecture would then be a space
conceived in our imagination, in which we may even live
and dream.”Yo-Yo Ma applies ‘Invenzione di
Carceri’, of 1750, designed by Piranesi in 1750 and
recreated by tridimensional computer science, over a
sound track that facilitates understanding of this space
imagined and of its illusionary vertiginous complexity. |
