sound performance, première
concept and composition sonora Daniela Cattivelli
project collaboration Michele Di Stefano
with Daniela Cattivelli (lap-top, birdcalls), Michele Di Stefano (bridge), Camillo Prosdocimo and Giorgio Rizzo (birdcalls)
consulting electroacoustic set up Francesco Casciaro/Tempo Reale
production Xing/Live Arts Week, with the support of Tempo Reale
UIT is a resonant environment, open to change and apparitions, in which mimetic acoustic techniques and sound transfiguration exercises are practiced. The fabric of this transitory area is mainly generated by birdcalls used to activate musical masking and camouflage. The compositional intention of this acoustic performance is created through a rethinking of the methods and techniques generally used by those who use these sound objects, commonly called birdcalls or whistles. The instrumental procedure, shared by those who practice the language of birds, consists in pronouncing, through the holes and fissures of these mechanisms, a series of syllabic sequences. UIT UITIT UITRU TITRU TITITRU TUT, for example, is the melodic rhythmic structure used to mimic a thrush.
"By slowing down, speeding up, changing, damaging, falsifying syllabic sequences, I built a new vocabulary of sounds, a fake language, which is the fabric of an artificial soundscape, open and available to incursions that broaden the reticulum. In hunting, bird calls are effectly 'sound bait,' aimed at the simulation, as faithful as possible, of the animal’s singing. UIT, distancing itself from the first hypothesis and pursuing the idea of a 'sound trap', plays with sound falsification and deception. The use of these annotations has no pretensions or descriptive aims with the sound of nature. Identification with it instead shifts toward the effort to rebuild a sound environment that reproduces the acousmatic experience of a walk in the woods, the disorientation due to the perception of sounds to which one is unable to attribute a concrete physical source."
wednesday 17 april > 9 pm > MAMbo
concept and composition sonora Daniela Cattivelli
project collaboration Michele Di Stefano
with Daniela Cattivelli (lap-top, birdcalls), Michele Di Stefano (bridge), Camillo Prosdocimo and Giorgio Rizzo (birdcalls)
consulting electroacoustic set up Francesco Casciaro/Tempo Reale
production Xing/Live Arts Week, with the support of Tempo Reale
UIT is a resonant environment, open to change and apparitions, in which mimetic acoustic techniques and sound transfiguration exercises are practiced. The fabric of this transitory area is mainly generated by birdcalls used to activate musical masking and camouflage. The compositional intention of this acoustic performance is created through a rethinking of the methods and techniques generally used by those who use these sound objects, commonly called birdcalls or whistles. The instrumental procedure, shared by those who practice the language of birds, consists in pronouncing, through the holes and fissures of these mechanisms, a series of syllabic sequences. UIT UITIT UITRU TITRU TITITRU TUT, for example, is the melodic rhythmic structure used to mimic a thrush.
"By slowing down, speeding up, changing, damaging, falsifying syllabic sequences, I built a new vocabulary of sounds, a fake language, which is the fabric of an artificial soundscape, open and available to incursions that broaden the reticulum. In hunting, bird calls are effectly 'sound bait,' aimed at the simulation, as faithful as possible, of the animal’s singing. UIT, distancing itself from the first hypothesis and pursuing the idea of a 'sound trap', plays with sound falsification and deception. The use of these annotations has no pretensions or descriptive aims with the sound of nature. Identification with it instead shifts toward the effort to rebuild a sound environment that reproduces the acousmatic experience of a walk in the woods, the disorientation due to the perception of sounds to which one is unable to attribute a concrete physical source."
wednesday 17 april > 9 pm > MAMbo