Emotion For Change

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 Change – Book (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
San Marino, Green Festival. Con S. Mancuso (live streaming).
23 October 2021
Cambium, Anfiteatro via Russo. Con E. Zavoli e S. Gribaudi.
17 October 2021
Milano, Frigoriferi Milanesi
7 October 2021
Livinallongo (BL), Castello di Andraz
2 July 2021
Oriago (VE), Chiesa di San Pietro
October 2020
Bologna, Festival Resilienze, INSECTUM presentation and concert
September 2020
Alberoni, Venice Lido. ‘Redeemer for the Dunes’, for the preservation of the Alberoni dunes
July 2020
Live streaming concert, dedicated to plants, for the Centrale dell’Acqua in Milan.
May 2020
Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
November 2019
St. Marien (Linz, Austria)
September 2019
Tumbira (Amazonia, Brazil)
August 2019
Manaus (Brazil)
August 2019
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
Press
Music for plants
September 2021
#AGURocks: The Enchantment of Small Things
November 2020
Emotion for Change: An Interview with Sara Michieletto
September 2020
Emotion for Change de Sara Michieletto à Alger
March 2017
Jakarta Clima, Sara Michieletto in concert
July 2015
Ismar-Cnr for World Oceans Day
June 2017
Emotion for Change: closing ceremony of the viu semester on sustainable development
June 2017
First violin of La Fenice return to Sarajevo
March 2016
Emotion for Change: Music that changes us
October 2020
Climate change: breaking down indifference with music
February 2019
Sara Michieletto. Awareness is melody
October 2016
Emotions for a change
July 2016
Gesekan Klasik Sampaikan Cinta Bumi dari Sara Michieletto
December 2015
Exciting for a change, with notes, in the theatre in Monforte
November 2016