On May 19 in Pinerolo, in the Province of Torino, Italy, Quartetto Maurice will be presenting a new composition by Marco Momi, entitled VUOI CHE I PASSI ACCADANO (You Want the Steps to Happen), for quartet and “performed” electronics. 
Momi experiments with a new approach to interaction between musicians and electronics.
Here’s an excerpt from his introduction to the piece.  

VUOI CHE I PASSI ACCADANO  is a work in which for the first time I let theatrics emerge. The musicians are lined up, they don’t look at each other […] and are surrounded by electronic sounds. A more standard diffusion of electronic sound comes from behind them, while faceless voices (instruments dubbed and played electronically, through the use of transducers) anticipate the sound and precede the musicians.   The dramaturgy of the listening is frontal, and the electronic sound does not override the humanity of the musicians playing live […]. The only movement seen is steps, though the individuals taking those steps do not govern their speed. The steps can only happen, as it were – there are no horizons to be seen, and thus no ambitions […] Things happen as if in a state of inertia. A step may observe its own feet, and stops only at intervals, or may appear to be daydreaming its way out of the monotony. […] Any synchrony between steps is purely casual, while the voices blend with and mimic the crowd, or emerge ethereal. Bits of phrases are repeated, the liturgy of the gesture is recited. All of this, of course, is a representation for audiences in attendance.

VUOI CHE I PASSI ACCADANO was commissioned by Quartetto Maurice. The May 19 performance is part of the Music in Proximity/New Music series at Teatro del Lavoro in Pinerolo.