Reach.Touch.2025

ca. 1h10′

• Leonardo Matteucci (*2000)
  • Assume for flute, piano, cello and electronics
• Juan Sarmiento (*2002)
  • Lindar algo con otro for piano
• Emanuele Savagnone (*1997)
  • under a strained black sky for piano

Intermission

• Juan Sarmiento (*2002)

  from Widmung:

  • Decir adiós for piano and electronics
  • White bells for piano and electronics
  • Black bells for piano
  • Caminos for electronics
  • Choral for piano and electronics
• Leonardo Matteucci (*2000)
  • Occlusion for violin and electronics

Reach.Touch. is a concert project whose themes focus on hidden bodily mechanics: movements that bend, compress, and collapse.

There are moments when the internal tensions of our bodies surface, manifesting directly through sound—unfiltered impulses tracing the most direct path from interior to exterior, emerging precisely where musical articulation first takes shape.

This visceral intimacy—where touching implies reaching outward—has always represented, to me, an attempt at contact, at correspondence, or at least an affection driven by an urgent need to reach, a commitment to both the musicians' physical gestures and the internal bodily responses of the audience.

In this context—where musical articulation mirrors a physical gesture reaching outward, straining against its own sonic projection—amplification serves not only as a means to render perceptible what lingers unheard, what merely skims the skin, but also as a medium to empower intimacy. This intimacy communicates most clearly as one draws closer and closer to its source, until it touches the skin.

Dynamics, therefore, become less about physical intensity and more about unveiling the potency of gesture at its fullest—amplified to clarity without distortion or strain.

Intimacy demands proximity: listeners must lean in to discern between what is here and what is almost here, between what is touching and what is only attempting to reach. In this delicate space, what is fully present gradually meets what merely shimmers at the edge of perception—where neighboring domains touch without merging.

Reach.Touch. is a concert project supported by Land Steiermark, ÖH-KUG, and the Kunstuniversität Graz