Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and tape, with live painting
Vantablack
A melody that shifts with the light that is reflected or absorbed.
2024
- Instrumentation
- Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and tape, with live painting
- Year
- 2024
- Concert
- Performance multidisciplinar con pintura en directo
- Venue
- Teatro Principal, Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Performers
- David Grijalba, saxofón barítono · Igor Urruchi, clarinete bajo · Esteban Espinosa, pintura
Programme note
A piece that embodies the absolute darkness of the blackest material known. When light falls on vantablack, the carbon nanotubes it is made of absorb almost all of it.
The piece is built around a recurring melody that changes with the presence or absence of light, depending on whether it is reflected or swallowed by the vantablack. As it plays, a visual artist paints live.