This sound-collage is an attempt to evocate the “Stimmung” of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Prioria, his house in Gardone di Riviera (Villa Cargnacco), that was the major work of his late years, and in a certain sense of his life: a syncretistic “Gesamtkunstwerk”, an assemblage of (found) objects, images, musical instruments, books etc. A real “Theater of Memory”, mixing memories and desires… A surrealistic (and somehow melancholic) remembrance of his life and his poetry, of his “vivere inimitabile”.

flusso sonoro totalsistemico ecopoetico / sonic flux totalsystemic ecopoetic

index

LITANIA / LITANY [0.00’00’’]
CERVI / DEERS [0.06’26’’]
IL CAMMINO DELL’ACQUA / THE WALK OF THE WATER [0.09’45’’]
API / BEES [0.12’00’’]
PIETRE (enclave celtica) / STONES (Celtic enclave) [0.17’09’’]
RENANIA / RHINELAND [0.19’52’’]
CAPPELLO COME TEATRO / HAT AS THEATER [0.20’21’’]
NIDO / NEST [0.21’32’’]
SIBILLE / SIBYLS [0.22’53’’]
IL PASTORE / THE SHEPHERD [0.24’12’’]
ANGELI / ANGELS [0.27’56’’]
CONCHIGLIE GUSCI D’UOVO CORNA / SEASHELLS EGGSHELLS HORNS [0.30’26’’]
IL CAMMINO DELL’ACQUA (calda) / THE WALK OF THE WATER (warm) [0.32’50’’]
MUSICA POVERA (Blessed are you who are poor) [0.35’00’’]
COYOTE (an idea of the north) / [0.38’00’’]
SOTTOPASSAGGI / SUBWAYS [0.39’47’’]
FAGOPYRUM [0.41’07’’]
ELEMENTA [0.42’38’’]
IL CAMMINO DELL’ACQUA (fredda) / THE WALK OF THE WATER (cold) [0.45’53’’]
I CIGNI DI LOHENGRIN / THE SWANS OF LOHENGRIN [0.46’40’’]
CARNE DI MAIALE (BEETHOVEN) / PORK MEAT (BEETHOVEN) [0.50’10’’]
INTUIZIONE / INTUITION [0.53’00’’]
LA RUOTA / THE WHEEL [0.54’19’’]
LA FABBRICA POCO ILLUMINATA (pompa notturna) / THE DIMPLY LIGHTED FACTORY (night pump) [0.55’15’’]
MONUMENTO / MONUMENT [0.56’59’’]
LA GOLA DEL LUPO MANNARO / THE WEREWOLF GORGE [0.58’29’’]
LA LAVANDA DEI PIEDI (tiepida) / THE WASHING OF THE FEET (lukewarm) [1h00’36’’]
AL-KHIMIYYA [1h02’50’’]
CUCINA / KITCHEN [1h07’58’’]
AMFORTAS! la FERITA! / AMFORTAS! the WOUND! [1h10’30’’]
NELLA TORRE DEL MINOTAURO (liberazione) / IN THE TOWER OF MINOTAUR (liberation) [1h12’04’’]
LA LAVANDA DEL PUBE / THE WASHING OF THE PUBIC [1h13’43’’]
medicinicamente / medically [1h15’50’’]
NON STUDIARE! / DO NOT PRACTICE! [1h20’05’’]
SCOZIA (l’arte dei metalli) / SCOTLAND (the art of the metals) [1h20’36’’]
STREAMING HOCHSPRACHE (green ears) [1h22’12’’]
ogni uomo è un musicista / everyone is a musician [1h23’05’’]
EURASIA [1h24’42’’]
RITO DI PASSAGGIO /RITUAL OF TRANSITION [1h27’35’’]
GRASSO E METAFISICA / FAT AND METAPHYSICS [1h31’05’’]
LA LAVANDA DEL VISO / THE WASHING OF THE FACE [1h32’25’’]
MIELE (trasmutazione) / HONEY (transmutation) [1h33’32’’]
IL COLORE DEL FELTRO / THE COLOR OF THE FELT [1h38’50’’]
MEGALITHICA (anfore / amphorae) [1h40’28’’]
CAVERNA (lete) / CAVE (lethe) [1h42’08’’]
ORO / GOLD [1h43’32’’]

21 June 2021
[summer solstice]

The magic of collage.
Great surrealistic polyphonies (almost kitsch and almost sacred), beyond traditional logic.
Sergei Parajanov besides Kurt Schwitters, Giuseppe Zevola, Pierre Schaeffer and other eccentricities.
Étrangeté…

„very sad ‚amusic‘ (sound art), a sounding SCHWITTERS“
This is a quotation from a letter of Nam June Paik to Dr. Steinecke (8th December 1958). Paik tried to do music (or better: ‚amusic‘) in the spirit of Kurt Schwitters.
Perhaps Schwitter’s “Merzkunst” is sometimes melancholic, but never really sad, however, it never lacks of playfulness.
This installative sound collage tries to be “faithful” to the spirit of Schwitters art. Not at least also using materials from his epoch. Doing sound art with acoustic garbage, but not only…
Schwitters has been a master of collage and assemblage.
He said: „Merz means to create relationships, preferably between everything in the world“.

Sound installation conceived as a “Prelude” to the lecture-performance THE GLASS BEAD GAME (Winter Solstice 2022) at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan.

For the Finale of the lecture-performance THE GLASS BEAD GAME inspired by Hermann Hesse’s last novel (Winter Solstice 2022) at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan.

A “sound space”; an installation. A slow, very slow flow of sound events. Otherworldly temporalities. (It could always already commenced, and could continue forever).
A hommage to the homo cosmicus Avet Terterian.

A sound event that evokes memories, from a very distant past as well as from a remote future… The archaic present.
What connects us, is the remembering of the Origin – of the continuum, to whom we belong. Remembering is to recognize the archetypes of reality.
The sound of the “Androgynous“ (reconciliation of the opposites) dissolves in the primordial waters. Also the future has to be remembered.

This sound installation was created as an artistic response in the frame of the residency “The art of remembering”, organized by the collective “The Rabbit Hole” and Morra Foundation at Museo Nitsch, Naples, 2022

https://www.101010n.com/theatrum-phonosophicum

This sound event is the chant of an old door in the monastery Jukhtak (Region of Tavush, Armenia). The recorded sounds are neither modified nor edited.