from, maybe to
From, maybe to is a research project culminating in the creation of various sculptures, aimed at investigating the natural algorithm through which self-similar processes of construction and dissolution manifest themselves in our memory via modules and their evolution, starting from personal remembrances.
Category
sculpture | sound art
Specifics
for piano components, metronomes, aluminium bars, metal clamps, tree branches, music sheets and 2ch sound
Years of creation
2023 – 2024
The work delves into the intersection of music, visual art, and architecture within a conceptual framework rooted in self-referential proceduralism. Gianluca Iadema’s memories become the one of the sculpture. It reflects and incorporates itself by identifying with its origin upon encountering it, thereby transcending its own nature, as time arises from memory. This process involves the present moment becoming part of the past, then being regarded as such and reintegrated into the now. In this way, the present exists both as itself and as a recollection of the past, creating a continuous sense of passage.
These synthetic metal structures are conceived as filters, through which some excerpts of memory, represented in this particular work by piano components and other musical elements, are processed. Each structure engages in a dialogue with a musical element composed entirely on the piano, employing both standard and extended techniques, as well as digital signal processing and tape machines. The music is then diffused as a stereo tape. Consequently, these structures are transformed into autonomous systems, resembling three-dimensional mnemonic projections. Simultaneously, each piece incorporates natural elements, such as tree branches, to reflect the fractal design of the sculptures.
