Metagon, sand sculpture by Jean-Pierre Hébert
Sand Spirals
Metagon, a solo shakuhachi piece I composed for artist Jean-Pierre Hébert's sand spiral of the same title,
is performed live along the entire 12-minute duration that this sand sculpture takes to be generated, also live,
by means of a magnetic ball moving over a sandboard and controlled by computer.
The computer is programmed with this and many other mathematically constructed algorhythms for sculpting sand spirals of several different shapes.
Metagon is the first in a project of four compositions written according to roughly the same principles that generate the spiral created by Jean-Pierre.
Umbria Festival Internazionale delle Figure Animate, Perugia, Italy,1993,
Irlandini plays so-na during a
street theatre performance of Allegorie del Caos
Experimental Dance/Theater
Irlandini has also worked closely with experimental dance/theatre groups in Italy and Brazil during the 1990s.
He was composer, music director, and musician with experimental theatre group QÁ BAL O QUÁ, directed by Isabela Tymm Fyminz in Rome, 1991 through 1993,
with several performances in Roma, Perugia, Modena, Cava de' Tirreni, Montalcino, Montepulciano, Orte,
San Quirico D'Orcia, Corciano, Albano, Frosinone, and Campagnano, Italy of the theatrical piece entitled Allegorie del Caos.