| “My
name for this project is Anne O’Neame or ANON. It is
coming from the origins of touching cultures and therefore
touches the self and the unknown or unnamed self. It would
also work without my presence,” explains Maria Nordman.
“A fugue, a project for musicians of four to eight different
cultural heritages: a circle of musicians of different cultures
interweave compositions & culturally transmitted texts
having to do with the genesis of life. Intercomposing interperforming.
the music could start under the sky next to a place having
the history of being named sacred and then start to be performed
in other sites of Rome and other cities also indoor sites
such as school auditoriums in at least three chosen places
producing for the whole a sort of score.”
And thus it was. On the bitterly cold morning of January 27,
made more atmospheric by a fall of snow, five musicians seated
in the synagogue around the Roman mosaic, in the same place
occupied two years earlier by Kounellis’s bird-filled
aviary, played pieces of Persian, Yiddish, Turkish, Sephardic,
and Romany music in symmetrical alternation. The one seated
in the easternmost position, toward Jerusalem, began and the
others joined in gradually at prearranged rhythmic intervals
to create a score for that moment and that place, site-specific
and time-specific. An unrepeatable experience, the concert
was neither recorded nor photographed nor published. It remains
in the memory of those who heard it. |
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