Emotion For Change
Album (2018)

Music and science, to “feel”, through notes, the climate changes and the magical sounds of the planet and the great diversity that inhabits it

Observation, contemplation of nature and ourselves, led us to create this collection of music, inspired by small insects, by vast skies, by the flow of flowing water, by colors, by work in a symphony orchestra. In essence, by everyday life.

The set of songs follows a path, always under construction, of reflection on one of the most serious problems that grips human beings in the 21st century: climate collapse.

Many of us, through daily actions, have created this situation, and many of us, through daily actions, can mitigate and adapt without terrible consequences, to global warming.

Like small ants: one alone, can do little, but many create extraordinary works. A superorganism. We dedicated the first song to this idea.

“The Earth has been playing its symphony for millions of years, its instruments are the wind, water, ice, life. But for just over a century, billions of humans have been introducing intolerable dissonances, the terrible noise of the Anthropocene that overwhelms everything. Emotion for Change translates for us the notes of a Nature that increasingly faintly whispers: stop, before it’s too late!”

So says Luca Mercalli (climatologist) in the booklet of this album.

EFC – Emotion for Change is a collective of musicians, artists and scientists who create music albums and performances according to the principles of our eponymous association.

Musicians:

Sara Michieletto – violin
Giorgio Schiavon – saxophone
Paolo Vianello – piano

Album Emotion For ChangeBook (pdf)

We have chosen to make the album and the booklet available to everyone to be less impactful on the environment and thus avoid being tracked or profiled which, as is well known, generates enormous profits without our knowledge.

Play the songs:

The concert

The performance of Emotion for Change uses the sounds of violin, saxophone and piano, sometimes also percussion, flute and horn. There are also elements of experimental music or the use of natural sounds such as water and breaths.

Many of the pieces were composed specifically for this project by Sara Michieletto and Giorgio Schiavon, and all the others are reinterpretations of famous composers.

Each piece is poetically linked to specific topics relating to global warming: for example, Nildo Sanvido’s “Bordone 3” may suggest the disquiet that arises from humans’ lost connection with nature; Barbara Strozzi’s “Amor Dormiglione” invites us to wake up; Giorgio Schiavon’s “Formiche” speaks of the simple everyday actions we can take to try to mitigate the impact of global warming.

Performance as an experience

 

Emotion for Change is not just music: each piece is preceded by a story, a gesture, a breath in the violin that seeks to inspire awareness, anguish and hope. Actors and scientists accompany the musical performance at certain moments, speaking poetically about climate and future scenarios relating to the city in which the concert takes place.

Symbolically, each Emotion for Change performance ends with the distribution of seeds to the audience to invite them to plant in the earth instead of continuing to extract resources from the earth.

Shows

Savona, Ferraris Pancaldo Institute

May 2019

 

Acqui Terme (AL), for the students of the Montalcini Institute and the “Bella” Musical Middle School

March 2019

 

Milano, American International School

January 2019

 

Cervinia-Valtournenche (AO), review of Cammini d’Autore dedicated to water

August 2018

 

Bologna, Teatro del Baraccano, with the UNIBO Department of Languages, to remember FukushimaCervinia-Valtournenche (AO), review Cammini d’Autore dedicated to water

March 2018

 

Ravenna, Classense Library, with Tralenuvole, for the Municipality and FAI

November 2017

 

Venice, for CNR Ismar, on Oceans Day

June 2017

 

Venice, for Venice International University

June 2017

 

Algiers (Algeria), at the invitation of the Italian Cultural Institute, Auditorium of the Radio Algerienne)Venice, for the Venice International University

March 2017

 

Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina), under the patronage and at the invitation of the Italian Embassy and the Dante Alighieri Association

March 2016

 

Jakarta (Indonesia), under the patronage and at the invitation of the Italian Embassy and the IIC

December 2015