VS

“Not having the artists interact with each other: an orchestra that has never met can in fact be called blind improvisation”.

The concept of the project unfolds in August 2019.
VS – Vengo Sbagliando – (a possible translation for it: Coming along and doing wrong) is the title of the project and it too is apparently a mistake. Although its sounds correct it is also apparently wrong, not to be spelled or said, at least in current conventional Italian.
Are we therefore implying an incorrect composition?
No, actually V.S. is an idiomatic, dialectal phrase that implies the intention of doing something over time, in this case to proceed erroneously, voluntarily.
Beyond the concept of language itself, which semantically holds the modus operandi of this project, the artists taking part of it did not have the opportunity to listen to each other and consequently no possibility of interaction: there was no chance for them to interact in their improvisation.
Having said that, it cannot be defined as a successful or unsuccessful experiment – it is simply an experiment – a composition of mine where, in some tracks, I stepped in massively also operating on the sound design.
Disregarding musical language, I’ve decided to make scores with an unconventional and differentiated sign language for each of the 23 artists voluntarily involved in the project (whom I warmly thank).
Between October 2019 and November 2020, I met with each artist individually. I asked the individual artist to freely interpret the score I had assigned to them, with the instrument(s) they felt most comfortable with, in the location most suitable for their recording. In every single recording, 4 mono audio tracks were captured with 2 cardioid and 2 binaural microphones, in order to record the space and ambient sounds where each individual artist performed.
During 2021more than 92 mono tracks were cleaned and processed in studio. Between December 2021 and March 2022 final mixing and mastering with Max Costa.
While waiting to see it take off through a production, below you can listen to small excerpts of each individual act that composes the piece.

Gianluca Natanti