ELECTRIC ENNEAGRAMM is a prevalently instrumental composition for three drum sets, three electric basses and three electric guitars set up in a circular formation.  

The public will be seated on the floor, on cushions or a rug within the circle, but it will be able to move freely around the entire space, which will be illuminated by the light of numerous candles.

Each musician will have a speaker either behind or above him/her (in addition to the amplifier in the cases of the bassists and guitarists) from which only the part that the musician is playing will come out, allowing the public a three-dimensional listening of the composition, a diversification in the sound space in respect to the visual collocation of single executors (lit from the bottom upwards by a single spotlight).  

The music exploits, on various levels, the resources offered by this type of formation: the juxtaposition of various harmonious and rhythmic planes, the construction of sonorous masses of varying weight and dimension, the mutation in the architecture of the sonorous masses and of the empty spaces, intertwined dynamics between the instruments and the apparent movement of these masses in the space, beyond a metamorphic musical discourse in the presence of elements already presented at the listening with new elements.

At the execution, scenic actions of varying types will take place (a sort of shaman which revolves around the public playing a rain stick, some musicians hidden among the audience that stand up performing improvisations, false signals of nervous disorders, a fake fight, people dressed in dark clothes that streak through the audience like fireflies until they are outside the circle of musicians, spotlights fading according to the music etc.) for which the details will be indicated in the music score.  

At the center, metaphorically and literally speaking, of this sound and visual experience is the audience, nearly obligated to be a part of this “machine” and subject to the pressure of a listening that goes beyond both the bi-dimensionality of the stereophonic system and the normal technical, behavioral and cultural praxis of live music; not only because the disposition of the musicians is unusual and the music surrounds the ears of the people instead of striking them only from the front, but also for the intention of convincing the public (by deliberately breaking the listening habits and scenic actions that open the visual and corporal dimension of the music) to react to this pressure.  

The public is the actor in a change of perspective and an amplification of perceptions, not only as spectators of an aesthetic objected created in a particular perspective and conceived to be the object of particular perceptions.

And in this same sense, each reference to modern new-age practices inspired in the enneagram is radically ironic: more interesting the alchemical interpretation of the figure as the numeral schematic diagram of perpetual motion.