Hyperbaroq featuring Mirko Guerrini, Ilaria Crociani and Stephen Magnusson

Hyperbaroq is Mirko Guerrini, Ilaria Crociani and Stephen Magnusson.
It began six years ago, on a rainy night during lockdown. Mirko and Ilaria sat at the piano and played ‘No, no, non si speri’, a cantata Giacomo Carissimi wrote around 1664. Something became irreversible.

The Baroque principle of the affetti, music as the direct, uninhibited expression of feeling, was never a closed system. It was an invitation. It took us six years to understand what that invitation was asking: not to revive this music, not to interpret it, but to continue it.

Bringing our own sound to it, loops, samples, electronic textures, felt at first like touching something sacred with irreverent hands. Then we understood: the Baroque interpreter was never meant to be invisible. The affetti demanded a personal voice. So, we let the electronics and the improvisation go where the feeling led.
We are one step in a conversation that has never broken off, one that asks not for answers, but for the courage to keep searching.

Always in motion, never in amber. This is the baroque we imagine.