Reach.Touch.2025

ca. 1h10′

  • Juan Sarmiento (*2002)
    • Decir adiós (from Widmung) – for piano and electronics
    • Black bells (from Widmung) – for piano
    • White bells (from Widmung) – for piano and electronics
    • Lindar algo con otro (from Widmung) – for piano
  • Emanuele Savagnone (*1997)
    • stars on black canvas – for piano
  • intermission
  • Leonardo Matteucci (*2000)
    • Assume – for piano, flute, cello and electronics
  • Juan Sarmiento (*2002)
    • Caminos (from Widmung) – for electronics
    • Choral (from Widmung) – 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 escape, manifesting directly through sound—raw emissions tracing the most direct path from interior to exterior, emerging precisely where musical articulation first takes shape. Here, sound reveals a humanity stripped of rhetoric, a bare caress of the body's inner movements.

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, the ÖH-KUG, and Kunstuniversität Graz