Ntrallazzu 4 and 6

Ntrallazzu is the title of a cycle of works composed by Marcello Messina after an initial call for scores by the Lovemusic Collectif. The cycle is entirely based on interactive live scores, and reflects on the multifaceted concepts of liveness and interaction both from a creative point of view and as a critical philosophical perspective. Typically, the pieces that compose the cycle are 5-6-minute long in duration, and rely on a projected score that interacts in real time with the materials played by the performer(s). While one of the performers plays, the sound is fed to and processed by a patching software, and generates both electronic sounds and a score, which is generally, but not necessarily, to be performed by a second player. Both the live score and the electronics run on Max.