Lucia Comnes featured at “A Due Voci” Festival in Como, Italy, on Music & Philosophy
with special guests
Luca Ghielmetti alla chitarra
Max Malavasi alla percussione
Saturday, November 17, 2018
22:30
Nerolidio Music Factory
Via Sant’Abbondio, 7, 22100 Como CO
nerolidio.it
031 507128
Lucia Comnes, cantautrice e violista da San Francisco, California, presenta una serata di musica Folk con una selezione di canzoni che collegano la vita quotidiana alla filosofia. Prendendo spunti di Joan Baez, Bob Dylan e Leonard Cohen, le sue canzoni portano sempre un messaggio che può essere interpretato a varie livelli di profondità. Ad esempio, la sua canzone ‘No Hiding Place’ (vincitore di un premio in 2014) racconta la storia di due ragazzi innamorati che vogliano scapare da casa dei genitori. Però il testo è molto aperto alla interpretazione, come dice il judice, Roy Alkins (http://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com/2014/12/): “One listener might feel “religious,” one might hear “relationship”, one might simply see “a bird” and another might experience something completely different.”
Laureata come Etnomusicologista e sempre appassionata della meditazione, la filosofia e la mente cosciente, le canzoni di Lucia Comnes, tramite le storie dei testi e la melodia, portano luce all’oscurità.
Lucia sarà accompagnata da Luca Ghielmetti alla chitarra e Max Malavasi alla percussione.
Luca Ghielmetti è un cantautore capace di mescolare mondi ed individui, di intessere una fitta rete di relazioni tra la vita quotidiana di ogni giorno e la passione per Brassens, Conte, De André, Waits traducendo il tutto in uno stile musicale personale che rende la sua musica graffiante e leggera, densa di spessore e delicatissima.
Festival Website:
http://www.aduevoci.org/2018/11/01/4261/
The fifth edition of the Festival A due voci – dialogues of music and philosophy, will take place in Como from November 15th to 18th, 2018. Dedicated to the theme See and hear, it will be preceded by two major premieres Cinema A due voices and Café Philo.
The Festival A due voce is realized thanks to the support of the Culture Department of the Municipality of Como, under the patronage of the Lombardy Region.
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To see and hear – Narcissus at the source announces with his gaze the separation of the image from reality. The image triumphs over what has generated it in the moment when Narciso becomes aware of the boy who observes, of his dumb lips, unable to respond, to create otherness. Nobody remembers Eco, the young nymph who with her voice picked up and handed down the last lament of her beloved Narcissus. Its removal testifies to the evident dominance of a visual culture that is unable to agree with listening. A culture where truth has been built around what is seen.
And what is heard? Why has that faceless truth been removed that addresses us by representing what by its nature can not be the object of representation? How to solve the unspeakable enigma of a knowledge like music that does not allow itself to be told even though we know how to lead towards what we feel the need to understand?
Everything that lives in time, everything that is not able to fix itself in the gaze, seems an enemy of the intelligible reality. The vision satisfies our desire for certain knowledge, it is only in the reflection that knowledge takes shape, in our way of giving an image to the object in an unstoppable game of mirrors that takes us away from the singularity of the sensible world.
Bruno Dal Bon, curator of the festival
