The acoustical secrets of the city at various moments of day and night. The sound landscape is collected through a gradual and progressive approach. A drift into the memory of the city like an acoustical film without images. Steps, screams, songs and invocations, printing-machines, musical instruments. Celebrations at the Vesuvio volcano. Stratifications of sounds and images continuously changing. The gradual changes are transversed by the lightning of an acoustical storm which modifies the perception of the original sources. The microphone is also used as a lens to enlarge details, acoustical fragments otherwise almost inaudible. Microlistening and macrolistening are both present keeping their specificities. Not fusion but reciprocal relation between materials.
The listener can immers in the sound territory of the city where acoustical daily life is so important. Not a picture of Napoli but its absence creates a longed for bewilderment.
An immersion in the city through the mystery of hearing.
– RPD
Installation's presentations:
Nantes (F), "Les Allumees", 1993
Krakov (PL), "Audio Art Festival", 1993
Berlin (D), Podewil, "Urbane Aborigenale", 1994
Vienna (A), "Ambienti" Alte Schmiede, 1994
Hall in Tirol (A), Kunsthalle, 1994
Bologna, Link, 1994
Linz (A), Ars Electronica, 1996
Reggio Emilia, Ex-stalloni, "Silenzio", 1997
Fermignano, "Nuovo Paesaggio Italiano", 1998
Bregenz (A), "Kunst in der Stadt", 1998
Cologne (D), Deutzer Brücke, 1999
credits
released May 1, 1993
Produced by Patrizio Esposito & Roberto Paci Dalò
Executive Producer: Antonella Bottini
Created in June 1993 in the ORF digital sound studio, Vienna
Digital Editing: Gerhard Wieser & Sabine Hayna
Post-production: Folkmar Hein at Elektronisches Studio TU-Berlin
Design: Patrizio Esposito
Roberto Paci Dalò used the following materials: voices from the open market, E Zezi folk group instruments and voices (Marcello Colasurdo, Massimo Mollo, Marzia del Giudice), Heidelberg printing-machine, metals, springs, water, motorcycles, steps. Both installation and radiopiece were produced by ORF Kunstradio Vienna, Giardini Pensili Rimini, LÕAlfabeto Urbano Napoli with the collaboration of RAI Radiouno Audiobox Rome.
This CD, obviously stereo, constitutes a memory of the original 8 channel sound installation. Because of the special spatial distribution of the sound, it is warmly suggested that you listen to this CD through headphone.
The composer would like to thank Giancarlo Savino, Isabella Bordoni, Andrea Lerner, Heidi Grundmann, Prof. Walter Dalowitz, and all the friends involved in this project. Napoli is part of the project del Disorientamento (1992-1995) curated by Giorgio Agamben, Isabella Bordoni, Guido Guidi, Roberto Paci Dalò and produced by Giardini Pensili.
CD produced in collaboration with Galleria Toledo, Napoli.
Text by Isabella Bordoni, Roberto Paci Dalò, John Cage
Photographs by Cesare Accetta, Antonio Biasiucci, Luciano D'Alessandro, Patrizio Esposito
Images by Giancarlo Savino, Antonio Neiwiller, Loredana Putignani, Salvatore Vitagliano
Both cover and logo are based on an original photograph by Luciano D'Alessandro
Composer, improviser, clarinetist & electronics wizard. Performances worldwide in festivals, museums & theatres. His work has won the admiration and support of John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov, a.o. Founding director of Usmaradio at Unirsm.
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