Kol bpm קול is a concert for voice, clarinets and live electronics by Roberto Paci Dalò and Delilah Gutman. The sound performance is an adventurous exploration of Jewish tradition and innovation. Through live electronics, the voice is sampled and processed in real time. The repetition of a sound, a melody or a word amplifies and multiplies the acoustic effects, to create textures and meditative polyphonies where the perception of what you are listening gradually changes.
In Kol bpm קול, tradition becomes synonymous of contemporaneity.
In Kol bpm קול Jewish tradition meets electronic music.
The title of the project is an indication of this: the ancient word kol (“everything” in Hebrew), is followed by the modern abbreviation bmp (“beats per minute”, metronomic unit of measure). The patterns of bass clarinets and clarinets, played according to the techniques of the Jewish musical tradition, multiply and intertwine with the loops and rhythmic structures created by the voice. The fragments recompose a meditative story, where the state of trance and that of ecstasy constitute the meeting point between the two musical genres so distant in time.
The project is produced by Giardini Pensili and DGMA and was presented for the first time in Italy at the Verucchio Festival – artistic direction by Ludovico Einaudi – in July 2012.
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