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08 Oct 2019

Gianni Siviero

By Leav

October 10, 2019

The double CD is a musical tribute to the singer and songwriter Gianni Siviero, by his friends and colleagues, with graphics by Marco Nereo Rotelli. It is published by Edizioni Squilibri, and supported by the Club Tenco.

The presentation will be chaired by Sergio Secondiano Sacchi and Antonio Silva, and introduced by Maurizio Corbella and Nicola Scaldaferri.

The event will take place in the Sala Napoleonica of the University of Milan (via S. Antonio 12), at 5pm.

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04 Oct 2019

Brera Design Days 2019

By Leav

October 7, 2019

The event is organized by the Brera Design Disctrict, and incude a talk and the screenig of the documentary Vjesh/Singing, by Rossella Schillaci. The film tells the passage between different generation of women of the repertoire of polyphonic song in the arbëresh villages of S. Costantino and S. Paolo, in Basilicata; beside the presence of the singers, there is the presence of historical recording and old amateur videos embedded in the plot of the story, that focus on daily life, including rituals and religious festivals, a wedding, and accounts of emigrants story.

After the screening, a conversation between the filmmaker and Nicola Scaldaferri, who collaborated for the musical and ethnographic research.

 

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21 Sep 2019

Lines of Sounding Bodies

By Leav

September 1, 2019

#URLA. Sonic Meta Parade took place on September 1st in Matera, as the closing event of the Open Sound Festival. More than 250 performers, who followed a “geographical score” by composer Yuval Avital, engaged the audience in a two-hour procession through the Sassi district where traditional performers, folkloric masks and modern instruments blended in an engaging sonic dialogue. (More here)

To capture his firsthand experience of the event, Giovanni Cestino realized an immersive audiovisual recording, wearing an action camera on his head, and DSM microphones as earphones. (The same gear has already been used in another recent documentary, Evening in the Old Town.)

He thus captured a protean performance from different points of observation – sometimes admiring it from afar, sometimes merging with it. The result will be a highly-subjective audiovisual product which aims to highlight both the sonic complexity and the incredible visual and cultural variety of that artistic project.

 

 

Official program notes

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Photographs by Monkeys VideoLab, Alida Guatri, and Giovanni Cestino.

13 Sep 2019

Viaggio in Italia. Ethnomusic Video Mapping

By Leav

September 14, 2019

The videotaping is realized by Karmachina with the musical research by Nicola Scaldaferri, and projected in Perugia on the facade of the cathedral, from 14 to 21 September 2019. It is inspired by the research of the American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax who, together with Diego Carpitella, traveled through Italy to discover the extraordinary variety of traditional music in Italy, a country that is one of the most important areas of ethnomusicology, in terms of extension and variety.

Divided into five sacred movements and five profane interludes, it crosses the different geographical areas of Italy, from Sicily and Sardinia to the Alps.

The patrimony of sacred visual art preserved in Umbria illustrates the sacred polyphonic traditions; the work songs have as visual counterpoint the photographic and film repertoire of the 50s and 60s.

 

Program

Sagra Musicale Umbra Perugia videomapping

 

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10 Sep 2019

Music and Genocides

By Leav

September 10, 2019

As part of an event organized by the association Nomus, Nicola Scaldaferri will held a conference on the relationship between music and genocides in the Ottoman Empire area. The conference will delve into some lesser-known (or completely unknown) cases, in which tragical historical events affected entire populations, discriminated against religious or ethnic basis. Musical practices bear traces of those stories, still echoing over the centuries in diasporic contexts. Visual and audio documentation – partly from the LEAV archives –  will help contextualising those cultural phenomena.
During the conference, an excerpt of Radio Genocide by Yuval Avital will be presented for the first time. In this work, the composer reworked archival sound and visual materials and propaganda broadcastings related to cases of genocide.

The event will take place in the Sala Conferenze of the Museo del Novecento at 5pm. A concert of rebetiko music will follow, featuring Emanuele Skoufas (tsouras, voice), Laura Pronestì (guitar), and Matteo Concina (percussions).

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24 Aug 2019

#URLA. Sonic MetaParade

By Leav

September 1, 2019

#Urla. Sonic MetaParade is an itinerant work by Yuval Avital which involves over 250 performers in a sonorous procession through the Sassi district in Matera. Curated by Nicola Scaldaferri, #Urla features traditional Lucan instruments and masks alongside contemporary instruments, poetry and theatrical actions in a two-hours “geographical score”.
Cowbells of San Mauro Forte, Cupa-Cupas and Masks of Tricarico, the Arbëreshë choir of San Costantino Albanese, Bagpipes of The Pollino, Rumiti of Satriano, Pipers and Bassa Musica of Accettura, Marching Band of Tito and other performers will wind along various itineraries, and blend with electric guitars, drum sets and mobile soundspeakers.

The event will start in Piazza Vittorio Veneto at 6pm. The public “can choose to pass between the itinerant ensembles, wonder freely among the ancient streets or lay down on a rooftop, listen from a hot-air Ballon or sit near one of the sonic stations for the entire show. The experience should be lived fully and freely.” The parade will end around 8pm in Piazza San Pietro Caveoso. A “sonic festival” with no fixed duration will follow.

This performance will conclude the Open Sound Festival, an official event of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. A presentation with the author, Chambers of #URLA, will take place on Wednesday, 28th at 6:30pm in Matera (Ex convent “Le Monacelle”, via Riscatto 11).

Event page (Matera 2019 Events)

Open Sound Festival Program

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