Marta Verde/José Venditti

Performance Title:

Prima Materia
by: José Venditti & Marta Verde

Duration:
40 mins

Performance Synopsis:

Prima Materia is the origin of transmutation, the raw matter before golden illumination. In alchemical tradition, it represents the primordial substance from which everything can emerge: the state prior to the conversion of lead into gold, chaos into order, shadow into light.

This new project by José Venditti and Marta Verde, conceived as the prequel to Espectro Dorado, presents a live audiovisual performance that delves into the rawness of sound and the physicality of image from an essential, material-sensory approach.

The saxophone, processed through analog devices, generates a dense sonic mass without defined rhythmic structures, bordering on the spectral, the formless. Sonic and visual resonances intertwine in real time, creating an immersive and organic experience.

The images, generated live by Marta Verde, arise from the visual manipulation of physical elements, amplified and distorted to construct abstract landscapes in constant mutation. A visual work that starts from the material, yet unfolds toward the symbolic.

If Espectro Dorado explored the luminescence of the final transformation, Prima Materia embodies the prior stage: the raw impulse of alchemy, the latent possibility of transmutation.