Kety Fusco at Royal Albert Hall

Composer Kety Fusco, in collaboration with visual artists Gabriele Ottino and Sharon Ritossa, presents a brand new experimental live performance with two harps, light, and visuals in the Elgar Room.

The performance takes spectators on a visual and aural journey into an extemporaneous musical dimension, far from the classical canons of the harp and rich in moving images that suggest contemporary themes. In fact, exploiting the materials of which a classical harp is made (wood, metal and gut), Kety Fusco produces sounds and settings that suggest its deconstruction, evoking images and settings, imaginary soundtracks that tie in perfectly with the visual imagery created by the visual artists.

The images generate topical themes reflecting the construction of this instrument, the media prima, and its composition, which in the collective imagination generate the harp as the instrument we are used to seeing. In Kety’s performance, on the other hand, various decomposed parts of a harp generate an avant-garde vision of the oldest instrument in the world.

The project was born during the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation artistic residency in Venice, to which Kety Fusco was invited.