Saturday May 11th at 6pm at the Charterhouse of Florence the world premiere of Inzinzines is on stage, seven mineral miniatures of monochord poetry. Verses and voice of Pier Luigi Berdondini (free entry, info and reservations on [email protected]). Inzinzines it is a word invented by Berdondini, taking inspiration from the phonetics of the Romagna dialect. By transliteration into Italian we could say to inzinzinarsi, to infect and to infect oneself, to question and question and perhaps even to rebel to the point of taking on the responsibility of countering indifference by exploring hidden humanity and obliterated voices of resignation.
Inzinzines is inspired by figure of Tybalt, an ancient illuminator who kept inks and pigments for the drop caps of illuminated manuscripts. Tebaldo entrusts the sensitivity of his fingers with the sensorial perception of the metamorphoses of our time. Ancient codes and modern-day poetry. In a swirl of sounds that Berdondini defines as mineral “A mineral caress, touching, exploring, shaping the sound of the earth and its minerals. Poetry, in the disturbing days of hunger and thirst for peace, delves into the vibrations of fertility, sound labyrinths and acoustic sinusoids that embrace the essential need to bear fruit and share seed”.
Getting into fertile lumps and getting into the word Sometimes it is better – to get down from the deception of understanding – and harvest life – letting the thought flow between the rows. Verses that intertwine acoustic Italian with vocalizations of ancient dialects, Greek, Friulian, Sicilian, Sardinian, Molise, Lucanian, Ligurian, Trentino, Piedmontese, Romagna, reworked in sound coexistence of a common passage by accents, caressà du carìzza affranciscài. Verses and monochord voice, lo single string instrument created by Berdondini and created by luthier Sergio Gistri in Colle di Val d’Elsa.
After his debut with Girare il sole, in the 44th GAMO concert season in September 2023, the poet confirms the Certosa di Firenze as the stable stage of the Poesia al monochord project. A path of adjacencies between the silence of the place and the sound of verses, voice, wood, rope. Adjacencies and assonances. Two events every year, in spring and autumn. The second appointment will be at the beginning of Octoberon a date to be defined, with The Fisherman of Light, from a stilt house immersed in the darkness the fisherman explores the abyss, searching for sprouts of light among the darkness.
