Press Reviews       TAMBURI Press Reviews of the interactive Installation on October 23 to November 5, 2004     back    Tamburi pursues the idea of communication back to the archetypal forms of human community. Drums transmit messages, send signals. Hands join together in collective activity, but they also display the diversity of human nature and other cultures: the hands of a fisherman, of an African, of a child; tattooed, wrinkled hands; the hands of a worker. In this technologically sophisticated installation by Milan’s Studio Azzurro, whose artists have been doing pioneering work in the realization of interactive scenarios as a video production workshop since 1982, what is most fascinating is the visual experience staged by Paolo Rosa and the visitors’ communication with one another. Cannstatter Zeitung For the first time—at the Forum Neues Musiktheater—a creative potential unfolded in a combination of sound and image controlled by means of technical manipulation. This installation finally delivers on the, so often glib and empty, promise of an interactive situation. Tamburi, the artwork, is not complete without the viewer, who in this case is a ‘grasper’ and a ‘toucher’. Five drums gleam in the dark space, each about two meters in diameter. Four of them are set at an angle, inviting the visitor to reach out and interact with them. Projected onto the bright drumheads are hands: smooth, wrinkled, delicate, worked to the bone; tattooed and painted fingers, nails, and palms, encrusted with clay or coated with dust. When the visitor touches the drumskin by beating or stroking, scraping or pulling the drum, that sets the hands in motion, touching off sampled and natural (drum) sounds. Stuttgarter Zeitung
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