BK (2024)
For three percussionists
Commission: RePercussion Trio
Artistic direction: RePercussion Trio - Fondation Caris (Switzerland), IPDJ (Portugal)
Première: Ackermannshof Sruckereihalle, Basel (CH) - April 6, 2024
Performers: RePercussion Trio
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Performances
- 09/07/2024 - RePercussion Trio - ESMAE festival, Teatro Helena sá e Costa, Porto (PT)
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Program notes:
"BK" is the symbol for berkelium, a chemical element in the periodic table with atomic number 97. Discovered in 1949, berkelium is a radioactive metal element artificially produced in the laboratory. As a transuranium element intrinsically linked to human ingenuity, it symbolizes both scientific progress and the threat of decline.
Its radioactive and toxic nature makes it extremely dangerous for the human organism and the environment.
These characteristics make it an icon of the ambivalence of human ingenuity: creator of innovation and knowledge, but also of danger and destruction. Its properties make it a deadly substance, a symbol of the darkness inherent in man.
In the piece, the idea of Berkelio is transformed into a sonorous expression that reflects the harm that man does to himself and to the earth.