Autophagy III is on the one hand a permanent installation, which can be visited throughout the duration of the festival. It is also a composition-performance, in which Tom De Cock (micro-percussion) and Andrea Mancianti (live electronics) enter into dialogue with the installation.
Autophagy III – as a composition-performance – is a modular work for micro-percussion setup and electronics. The work offers the performer a series of possible configurations of materials, instructions and situations. Some are fully notated, others remain indeterminate, to be reshaped again and again. The micro-percussion setup includes a series of small amplified and processed percussion instruments such as crotals, Tibetan bowls, frame drum, cymbals and a number of square plates made of different materials, such as wood, stone and metal. De Cock sees this micro-percussion set as his real instrument, and a clear alternative to the classical and often very elaborate percussion set: it is the instrument in which his existence as a musician is crystallised. The instrument is meant to always be played in combination with electronics, performed by the same player. (To a text by Valentina Broes, courtesy of Concertgebouw Brugge).
Autophagy III was realised by Andrea Mancianti and Tom De Cock in co-creation on behalf of Centre Henri Pousseur Liège, following a research project funded by FRArt (Le Fonds de la Recherche en Art).
