Secret lives was commissioned by Connect Festival | www.connectfestival.se

It was premiered in Malmö (Sweden) during the Connect Festival 2011.

The work is a tryptich dedicated to the three italian composers Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Franco Donatoni.

In this work gruppoGruppo sets up three different paths of manipulations in the domain of sound and image, in different ways according to the composers to which the three videos are dedicated.

In the video about Berio, his portrait reveals to be a multi-layered construction, also connected to the ideas of showing and hiding. The musical part is built using his voice and samples from his masterpiece "Sinfonia".

Donatoni is surrounded by the ghosts of his musical handwriting, taking the form of little insects or particles, recalling the "cells" of his compositional process. A reference to his love for jazz music is evident in both the imagery and the sound. All the sounds are derived from a sample taken from his piece "Hot".

The video dedicated to Maderna plays with the concept of controlling or being controlled by an abstract structure. Various processed versions of Venice's map are used to model different landscapes, while the music (the sounds are taken from Maderna's "Venetian journal") tries to retrieve the hidden origin of the whole work.

Animation made with www.vvvv.org

Textures, animation and music have been developed most at Inter Arts Center in Malmö | www.iac.lu.se

Boxes have been built at Malmö Högskola | www.mah.se/k3

Venues and dates:

    Malmö - Sweden

    PALLADIUM - 11 November

    CENTRAL STATION - 12 November

    PALLADIUM - 12 / 13 November

    STADSBIBLIOTEK - 14 / 15 November

    MALMÖ MUSIKHÖGSKOLAN - 16 / 17 November

    Prague - Czech Republic

    LUCERNA THEATRE | Parallax Stereoscopic Video Art Festival - 8 December

    www.parallax.cz | www.ciant.cz

Excerpts in stereoscopic 3D

(Note: to appreciate the 3D effect, use two LEE filters - 116 for left eye, 106 for right eye)

Frames from the 2D version of the video:

The three 3D videos are placed in three boxes. The audience can peep into the boxes through two coloured filters which enable the perception of the 3D effect. Headphones are provided.

The making of