Bussa al cielo e ascolta il suono
(Carla Viparelli)
A triptych composed of three panels of the same height but different widths, painted in oil. The two lateral elements act as columns, almost like the entrance to a Greek temple. The pattern of parallel vertical stripes also harks back to ancient Greek culture, and in particular to the atomistic philosophy, first formulated by Democritus, who broke down matter into its indivisible first principles, the atoms, whose motion he saw as perpetually falling vertically and parallel. Epicurus enriched this rigid, imperturbable movement with a variant, the clinàmen, that is, an unpredictable deviation from the parallelism of the falling atoms, a sudden vector of intersection and encounter, which allows things themselves to exist.
Sound lines up from above. Letters, like atoms, don't simply fall in parallel, but often meet and overlap, generating dense fields in which the sound itself seems to take shape and become an image, a hieroglyph, a sign, an island. This vision, or rather, this listening experience that opens the doors to the heavens, is dedicated to these islands of sound, these fields of solidified immateriality.
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Anti bucolic pareidolia
(Eraclio, Andrea Bolognino)
The performance unfolds along parallel axes, sound and visual, which operate as a single, constantly evolving perceptual system. Acoustically, the recycling of familiar sound elements and their recomposition through turntables and sampling generate structures in which the attempt to find coherence allows gaps, errors, and interferences to emerge. Sound is thus constructed around "ghosts": not what is recognized, but what escapes, deviates, and exceeds control, revealing an unstable and non-linear sonic material. Visually, the live projections are based on a triadic apparatus composed of a macro lens, endoscope, and webcam, which explores surfaces and objects through extreme magnifications. The microscopic expands into the macroscopic, giving shape to immersive visual ecologies that challenge the stability of scale and perspective, transforming minimal fragments into complex and unstable landscapes.
In this context, the musical and visual cut-up acts not only as an alienating device, but as an operational model similar to the complex systems studied by science: small variations produce unpredictable configurations, in a field governed by nonlinear dynamics. The performance thus constructs a landscape understood as a network of active relationships, in which sound, image, matter, and perception intertwine in an unstable continuum. What emerges is a sensitive environment resembling a labyrinth of refractions and distortions, an audiovisual carpet in which reality is not represented, but continually reorganized and generated through processes of interaction.
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Climate Grooves
(Frank Pattyn)
Climate Grooves is a beat distilled from climate data through data sonification. It is the funk of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, polar sea ice and El Niño. Climate Grooves is a live Jazz Deep House performance with electronic instruments, such as synthesizers, groove box and Rhodes piano for improvisation.
Climate Grooves is based on data sonification, which is translating observed time series (observations of sea ice extent, mass balance of ice sheets, field measurements of melting in Antarctica, etc.) into harmonized melodies. These melodies are kept short and repeating so that they become earworms and easily identifiable. Merging them in popular music allows for these songs to reach a wider audience.