"Still Life". The literal translation from english to italian is "vita ferma", but usually "still life" is translated as "dead nature". There's a big difference between "still" and "dead". This surpised us, and gave us the idea to give voice to the passage from still/alive to dead, by sacrificing five oranges.

At first, we just thought we would plug in the five oranges as if they were a normal electronic device, (and consequentially to sacrifice their integrity). Assign each one a mixer channel, eq, pan, and volume, and use two contact microphones on the table, and another on the oranges, to increase the spatial values. The resulting sound is almost the same as the one you get when touching a connected jack with your hands. So we started touching and playing the oranges.

But then we chose to let them talk for a couple of minutes - by turning up the volume, and acting as the moderators of their talk, using the mixer. It was exciting to listen to the harmonic feedback we got at maximum volume. The results can be heard in the mp3 version. The track on the cd is our musical translation of the orange's communications, during their passage from "still and alive nature", to "dead nature". A melancholic and happy goodbye at the same time. Happy to be able to convert their energy in sound.