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Theatrum phonosophicum is the theatre of phonosophia (“knowledge through the sound”), a constellation of ideas, thoughts, (sound) objects and performances.
theatrum phonosophicum is a life project for sharing knowledge in a sensuos way and that encourages to create experiential spaces in which traditional knowledge intersects with experimental practices, striving for the synthesis of different artistic expressions, for the Gesamtkunstwerk, i.e. the “total work of art” (from Richard Wagner to the avant-garde and beyond it). A knowledge that is not only bookish, but experienced through all senses. Very central in our work is the focus on sound and the listening activity, understood in a broader sense as “ecology of the mind”.
theatrum phonosophicum is to combine fragments of infinity with other fragments of infinity…
Leopoldo Siano (born 12th August 1982) is a philosopher of music and sound actionist. Very young he moved to Germany. From 2012 to 2022 he taught at the University of the Cologne (in the same Musicological Institute where Marius Schneider, one of his great inspirations, taught between 1950s and 1970s). Here, Siano is also co-organizer of the Raum-Musik acousmatic concert series. He is author and editor of several books (on Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Nitsch, François Bayle, etc.). His latest volume has been published in 2021 by the publisher Königshausen & Neumann (Würzburg): "Musica Cosmogonica: von der Barockzeit bis heute" (Cosmogonic Music: From the Baroque Era till Today). Together with Shushan Hyusnunts, he is the creator of the theatrum phonosophicum and the homonymous multisensorial series which started in the autumn of 2022 at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan.
Since spring 2023, he is living in Naples as "researcher in residence" at the Museo Archivio Laboratorio Hermann Nitsch (Morra Foundation).
(Photo: ©Lia Petrosyan)
Shushan Hyusnunts (born 3th February 1989 in Yerevan) is a musicologist and sound performer. After completing her musicological studies at the Komitas State Conservatory in Armenia, 2012 she moved to Germany. In 2016 she graduated (Master of Arts) at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the philosophy of sound in Giacinto Scelsi's orchestral works. At the same university she also held courses about Horatiu Radulescu, Dmitri Shostakovich as well as about traditional Armenian music. She continued her teaching activities at the Yerevan Conservatory, where she taught history of Western music. The core of her work is the research and life project theatrum phonosophicum, together with Leopoldo Siano, and the homonymous multisensorial series which started in the autumn of 2022 at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan.
Since spring 2023, she is living in Naples as "researcher in residence" at the Museo Archivio Laboratorio Hermann Nitsch (Morra Foundation).
(Photo: ©Mane Hovhannisyan)
