Sound and sense.

These are the words describing the origin of a project which involved me right away.

In fact, after years of collaboration in the musical field, Silversnake Michelle took the decision to give a more business turn to her artistic project and she invited me to join her "machine" as an associate.

A factory (or rather "haus" as she likes to call it) to give a mass to an artistic philosophy and to enhance it in every aspect, even the economic one.

Sound and sense, then...

The combination of hearing with everything we discern with other receptors as well.

At a time when the sight-hearing combination largely prevails, we aspire to the non-exclusivity of what we hear (but also what we see) in order to include smell, taste, touch within a uniform whole.

As in a dance, whose movement is meant to involve not only the body in its eternal fidgeting, but also our yearning to grasp, to grip sensations with any available instrument. The italian verb "captare" (to pick up) has, in its Latin origin, this precise meaning.

All to enjoy fleeting moments while we try to satiate memory, to keep it alive, to promote it as an evolutionary instrument.

Sound and sense. If you like, even a first person verb. I play and I give a sense to this sound. I give a sense to what the music wants me to grasp, combining it with other sensations.

"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves." says the Duchess to Alice in Lewis Carroll's wonderful novel.

So here are the sounds. Those of an author like Silversnake Michelle, whom I have never tired of admiring for the emphasis, honesty and genuineness with which, through her great talent, she conveys and lays bare her soul, her demons, her troubles. This, in my humble opinion, is increasingly rare in the musical field and it makes her a True Artist. An Artist who does not give in to compromises, to cushy concoctions for an easy success. Thorny at times, but still able to give true emotions and to inspire curiosity and inner turmoil.

And here are the senses, the ones we want to reawaken by providing experiences that... make sense of the senses (if you will pardon the pun).

Senses becoming more and more anaesthetised by the mad rush to modern "wellness". A series of pleasant, exciting, and in some cases perhaps even challenging and biting experiences, precisely to incite a return to those ancestral ties that our "captare" (pick up) always had with the nature surrounding and nourishing us.

That's what we offer, that's what I'm hooked about, providing my skills in music, IT and organisation.

That's a great way to materialise an artist's idea, realise her dream, and introduce her vision to the audience, in a different and divergent way.