SZENE
Salzburg

In Make it Count, violinist and performance artist Matteo Haitzmann searches for new concert formats and unusual instrumentations. What initially appears idiosyncratic and may raise suspicions of artificiality, upon closer examination, reveals an inner logic, almost like a consistent evolution of musical thinking.

This is also true for the three instruments used in Make it Count: jump rope, extended percussion, and modular synthesizer. Each gurgle individually and in collaboration on stage. Through the use of contact microphones, the jump rope becomes an extended arm of the percussionist. The three instruments stand on their own, as equals, and simultaneously form a sound collective. Together with the musicians Judith Schwarz (extended percussion) and Arthur Fussy (modular synthesizer), as well as sound designer Lukas Froschauer and light designer Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, a sound world is created in which the body produces sound and sound becomes physical.

Make it Count is understood as a performative musical composition and invites the audience for sixty minutes to adjust their own pulse to the rhythm of the performance.

• matteohaitzmann.com