"From Wood to Sound", a theatrical performance for solo cello, by and with Nicola Segatta

A concert, a workshop, a theatrical play, an immersive experience. Violin making as a
metaphor for building anything. Nicola Segatta, luthier, composer, cellist, and author of the
book A Minimal Manual of Violin Making, guides his audience through the metamorphosis of a
piece of wood into a piece of music, passing around instrument parts under construction or
tools of the trade, like gouges or thumb-sized planes.
Between one piece and another, performed by the author on an instrument made with his own
hands, you’ll learn to listen, through anecdotes and adventures, to the sound of a violin back,
to measure a soundboard in tenths of a millimeter, to smell the fragrances of shellac, propolis,
myrrh, and benzoin, and the mephitic odor of rabbit bone glue, to touch shark skin (the
sandpaper of the 18th century), and to hold a soundpost between your fingers.

Nicola Segatta has been described as a Renaissance artist: composer, cellist, luthier,

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