I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite

I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.At the same time sound sculptures and music instruments, they have been created by the master glassmakers of Murano. In the words of Francesco Cavaliere, these sounding bodies “function as ambivalent musical instruments (idiophones, such as bells, and aerophones, susceptible to air vibrations) for which the two transparent materials par excellence were used: glass, rigid and crystalline, and sound, an intangible element, which moves and organizes through gaseous paths.”
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a record of abstract electronics and glass music, a crossing of abyssal paths flown over by a cosmic kite that skims, touches and approaches the thresholds, peaks of both visible and invisible places, and returns the sound that inhabits and surrounds them. “It is a sonic binocular with a thousand eyes” that fogs up and never decides to stop on one or more defined shapes: it is always in movement, bouncing between geometries. The different cells that make up its appearance – crystalline greens, greys and only in some cases orange yellows – were cut out and generated using a 2012 Macintosh OSX computer. Before being arranged, each sound ritually passed through three blown glass sculptures named SÀBANAS I, ALIQUOMANÀS and ENQUOMANÀSC, belonging to theAbyssal Dynasty I.