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DROPS ON A HOT STONE
Date: 04 December, 2001
A Fabrica Musica project on volunteering, in collaboration with FIVOL (the Italian Volunteering Foundation) and UNV (United Nations Volunteers)
On December 4th 2001 at the Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio, Rome, Fabrica Musica hosted the world premiere of DROPS ON A HOT STONE, a multimedia musical event organized in collaboration with FIVOL and UNV to commemorate International Volunteering Day on December 5th.
The event consisted of five pieces of music, performed against a backdrop of video and multimedia installations that were created alongside the music and form an inseparable part of the whole. The pieces were interspersed with non-musical elements such as readings on volunteerism (excerpts from the “Volunteer Charter,” which were handed out to the audience), interviews, videoconferences and literary readings.
The music was composed by Andrea Molino, head of Fabrica’s music department, and was performed by the young Fabrica Musica musicians (specializing in percussion, saxophone, cello, live electronics and audio design) who added to the creative process. The visuals came from UN archives and from an extensive study by Colors and Fabrica. Many of the texts were from issue 47 of Colors, the special issue on volunteering. Music, video and words made up a single organism that celebrated a new conception of music based on state-of-the-art technology.
Drops on a Hot Stone and the volunteering issue of Colors both stemmed from a broader study that Fabrica (Benetton’s communications research facility) conducted on the many faces of volunteering today.
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