for string quartet and live electronics (written with Stefano Trevisi) (2001-02)
Dur. 12'53''
"The distinctive feature of dissociative disturbances is the loss of the subjective impression of continuity in memory and consciousness (...). Patients (...) report that they sometimesexperience something like two simoultaneous streams of consciousness, or even have the painful, mysterious experience of the disappearance of all thoughts and mental images, as though the conscence was deprived of all content (in Anglo-saxon literature, that experience of a vacuum is often indicated by the term blank spell). A threatening sense of unreality as though entering a kind of daytime nightmare (...) the body appears entirely or partially transformed, menaced by an obscure fragmentation, immobilized in a sort of devitalisation, or the experience of being out-of-the-body may occur, observing one's body being terrorized from the outside."
(G. Liotti, La dimensione interpersonale della coscienza, Ed. Carocci, Rome 1998, p.115)
7 September 2002 - Bachzaal, Amsterdam
Zephyr string quartet
Emi Ohi Resnick
Jacob Plooij
Elisabeth Smalt
John Addison
Marco Marinoni, live electronics (quartet's signal)
Stefano Trevisi, live electronics (digital audio tracks' signal)
Jan Panis, sound direction
