WEEKLY COURSE OF THEATRUM PHONOSOPHICUM
Open Call for the Course of theatrum thonosophicum (academical year 2024-2025) Weekly sessions for the preparation of multisensorial performative events [testo italiano sotto!] A weekly meeting for the collective development of multisensorial events in concomitance with the solstices and equinoxes, in which traditional knowledge intersects with experimental practices. The theatrum phonosophicum is an experiential field, […]
SOUND AND SOPHIA / Workshop for creative listening and sound actionism
There is a substantial difference between “hearing“ and “listening“. Listening is actually an authentic art, that, if regularly practiced, can greatly enrich our being in the world, anchoring ourself in the here and now, feeling really alive. With this workshop we want to encourage a deep and creative attitude of listening, a mindful and meditative […]
L’EBBREZZA DELL’ESSERE (THE INEBRIATION OF BEING)
THE INEBRIATION OF BEING residential workshop inspired by the three books of the “Feasts” and the “Monastic Rules” by Hermann Nitsch heald by theatrum phonosophicum (Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts) 5th-8th September 2024, Nitsch Museum, Naples [sotto testo in italiano!] Harmating, Asolo and Cuma, written in the 1970s and courageously published (in German) by Peppe […]
Festival PHONOSOPHIA 21-23 June 2024, Attigliano
[Vedi sotto testo in italiano] “Theatrum Phonosophicum”, in cooperation with the Simmetria Institute / Lanzi Foundation (Attigliano, Italy: https://www.simmetriainstitute.com/en/), presents the PHONOSOPHIA Festival, dedicated to the “Knowledge through the Sound”. With a cosmopolitan élan, this Festival intends to promote a renewed culture of sound and silence (“total listening”), by creating synesthetic immersive spaces where ancient […]
AKRÓASIS | FROM THE CICADA TO MARIA CALLAS… (HOMAGE TO MARIUS SCHNEIDER)
A lecture-performance in four parts: 17.00 part 1 (WATER) 18.00 part 2 (FIRE) 19.00 part 3 (EARTH) 20.00 part 4 (AIR) “Akróasis” is the pendant of “aisthesis“ (the Greek word from which “aesthetics“ comes): it means “perception“, in the specific sense of aural perception. In this lecture-performance in four parts, we will pay a tribute […]
SEPEITHOS. The vanished river of Naples (A lecture-performance on epical listening for the Holy Friday)
Once upon a time there was a river in Naples, that disappeared. The ancient Greeks called it “Sepeithos“. Its sound can be still heard, if one listens to it. In this lecture-performance, through a mythical method of free associations inspired by James Joyce among others, the theatrum phonosophicum tells about a ‘work in progress‘, that […]
The Art of Listening
For anyone who has two healthy ears, listening is something obvious, which everyone can do. But there is a substantial difference between “hearing” and “listening”. Listening is actually an authentic art, which if practised can greatly enrich our being in the world. Not infrequently even professional musicians are not used to really listening to what […]
Sound Walks
Guided walks through specific landscapes focusing our attention on the acoustic environment and perceiving consciously the sounds that surround us: the sounds of the elements (water, earth, air, fire), the sounds of insects, birds and other animals, the sounds of humans and of machines, the sound of silence…
Phonosophical Journeys
We organise thematic study trips to auratic places related to the motifs of the theatrum phonosophicum, with sound walks, lectures, guided tours, listening sessions etc. Each journey is understood as a ‘quest’ in the sense of philosophia perennis. The different routes of this ‘quest’ lie above all in the cultural triangle where we feel more […]
Overtone Chanting
Every single tone is a cosmos in itself. Paradoxically, each tone contains an infinite number of other tones. Not everyone is aware of the inner life of sound. Only through the art of listening to a long sustained fundamental tone, one begins to perceive crystalline tones, the so-called “overtones” or harmonics. Through the own voice […]