Ancia Elettronica | JULY 3RD

“ANCIA ELETTRONICA” – ANDRAŽ GOLOB E CRISTINA MERCURI

In the spirit of the Festival, encounters inspired by “parallel narratives” multiply: visions that intertwine in an exciting and surprising way, even though they seem destined never to meet.

With “Ancia Elettronica,” Andraž Golob and Cristina Mercuri inhabit this very distance: not to erase it, but to traverse it. The project is born from the most authentic spirit of the Narrazioni Parallele Festival: connecting trajectories that would seem destined to move separately, and discovering instead that a new language can emerge precisely from the gap, the friction, and mutual listening.

Golob brings with him the rigor and depth of an international classical training: a Slovenian clarinetist, he has been the bass clarinetist of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2021, following a journey that led him from Slovenia to Graz through orchestral and chamber music experiences of the highest level. Cristina Mercuri, meanwhile, brings the vibration of electronic sound—the possibility of transforming acoustic matter into mental space, impulse, reverberation, and vision.

Their encounter does not seek a reassuring fusion. On the contrary, it accepts the risk of contrast: references, deviations, hints, sudden fractures, and moments of unexpected synthesis. The reed becomes a threshold, the electronics become breath; the instrumental gesture extends into the circuitry, while the digital sound seems to search for its own flesh, its own voice.

In questo dialogo, la musica si fa esercizio di apertura. Dimostra che un linguaggio comune non nasce dall’annullamento delle differenze, ma dalla loro capacità di ascoltarsi. “Ancia Elettronica” è così una piccola, intensa dichiarazione poetica contro i muri e le separazioni: un concerto come luogo di incontro, in cui due identità sonore si sfidano, si trasformano e, per un istante, imparano a parlare insieme.