Press Reviews       ELASTIC3 Press Reviews of the Concert on July 18, 2006, at the ISCM World New Music Festival 2006     back    “At the focus of my composition is the idea of perceiving a sound like material into which one dives.” That was how Fausto Romitelli, who died in 2004, described his approach to his work. In the concert by the group Elastic3 at the Forum Neues Musiktheater this principle could be traced under various aspects. Romitelli’s Seascape for contrabass recorder and amplifier employs it literally. Almost hidden behind the bulky body of her instrument, Eva Reiter dives into an underwater world wavering with clouds of sound, gurgling and puffing. In her own composition Nasszelle (Wet cell) Reiter expands the rhythmic employment of the contrabass recorder into a dialogue with the machine sounds and motor loops of the accompanying track. Her partners in the trio Elastic3 are the guitarist Tom Pauwels and Paolo Pachini on electronics. Their homage to Fausto Romitelli (Elastically Pink) and Agostino di Scipios Veille, surveille were particularly impressive in the area of tension between sound and material. (…) Cannstatter Zeitung Nothing against electronics: they expand the perception of sound and its expressive possibilities. And in the concert by the Elastic3 ensemble at the Forum Neues Musiktheater they even manage to make the common roots of the guitar and the gamba audible (in Agostino di Scipio’s Veille, surveille). In both Fausto Romitelli’s Seascape and Eva Reiter’s Nasszelle, the bulky Paetzold contrabass recorder, which looks like a rocket turned into a woodwind, was accompanied by electronics that were rich in timbre, amplifying, and alienating. (…) Stuttgarter Nachrichten
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