An island talent with an international and contemporary reach, whose radical research is now taking flight north: from May 23rd to 28th, the new European tour of Daniele Ledda , musician and professor at the Cagliari Conservatory, will take place with the Clavius project. Crossing the Old Continent with sound experiments involving matter, gesture, and technology, the artist will visit the cities of Warsaw , Krakow , and Copenhagen .
These three dates were made possible by Ticonzero 's collaboration with the Shardana Association of the Polish capital, and by Alberto Defraia 's long-standing commitment to promoting Sardinian artists and repertoire abroad. Ledda's proposal immediately won over the country's Italian Cultural Institutes , subsequently involving the island community in Denmark through the InCantos team. In addition to the Institutes themselves, the project was supported by the Region and the Fondazione Sardegna .
The event will begin at 6:00 PM on Saturday the 23rd in Warsaw , at the Shardana venue, for an occasion that will be not only about listening but also about sharing and meeting. The concert will conclude with a refreshment featuring local products, strengthening the bond between art and cultural identity. The next day , the concert will take place in Krakow , at 7:00 PM at the Strefa Nowa club, and on Wednesday , the closing concert in Copenhagen will take place in the hall of the Italian Institute in the "Venice of the North."
In the guise of Clavius , Ledda has always aimed at a true redefinition of the relationship between body, instrument and technology : by intervening on traditional keyboard instruments to dismantle them, alter their function and hybridise them with digital systems and electronic devices, the musician creates a constellation of sound objects , with the mechanics as living matter and the performative gesture that expands.
The first nucleus of the research is " Clavius_8 ", born from the decomposition of a piano transformed into a percussive and unpredictable machine, followed by " Clavius_3 ", a hybrid clavichord with strings activated by electromagnetic fields and a bow, and " Clavius_7 ", which completely empties the piano to immerse it in a complex electronic treatment between sensors, pedals and a thousand timbral possibilities .
With today's digital instrumentation dematerializing the sonic experience, Ledda thus takes a countermovement, reclaiming the physicality of gesture without nostalgia and within an augmented dimension . It is not a return to analog, but a rewriting that restores centrality to contact, friction, and vibration in a constant dialogue with software and technological processing. Clavius is therefore a radical destruction and reinvention of Ledda's piano training , and for the project he chose a name intrinsically evocative of the keyboard and its sounds.
