Water and Fire is a music composition for augmented drums and live electronics. The composition is based on a improvisation that host possibility to interact live with audience that become active part of performance.
The relationship between music and human emotions is a very interesting area. How exactly music affects auditory perception relates to other senses and what the valid parameters needed to classify the pattern is still an open question. Listening to music at a live concert is different from listening at home. The difference is caused from not only sound facilities but also interaction between players and listeners. This interaction between players and listeners become the core of our attention and allow us to research and answer to “What you hear is what you see? …how auditory perception relates to other senses. What can we rely on? What can we trust? Where does our perception trick us?”
Non Linear music performance structure is preferable than a traditional linear play because has a flexible structure capable to adapt with a free improvisation music performance. It gives more freedom to audience when interact and can be Dynamic Music with meaning of music that can change and adapt to data. This kind of performance become a new emerging role able to produce new disruptive music forms.It is idea of the author that in a live electronics performance based on a free music improvisation, Listeners has unfiltered experience and can consider and have better perception of sounds as colors that changes during the performance . The use of synth’s sound and augmented music instruments during the performance allow to stimulate audience more making tricks about perception.
The title of composition Water and Fire is not at all casual, title call back the power of nature’s elements, and Water and Fire in particular are the most flexible elements, because they change their shape continuously, change their sound, color, mood and they can be identified with changing perceptions of audience.

Biagio Blaise Francia