SEPEITHOS (workshop) / IN SEARCH OF SOUND ACTIONISM (lecture-performance)
SEPEITHOS. WORKSHOP ABOUT DEEP LISTENING, SOUNDSCAPE AND ACOUSMATICS 27th September, 14:30 – 16:00, nitsch museum, Waldstraße 44–46, 2130 Mistelbach Once upon a time, there was a river in Naples that disappeared. The ancient Greeks called it “Sepeithos”. If you put yourself in a state of deep listening, its sound is still audible… The work in […]
NOSTOS 101 (Lecture-Performance)
NOSTOS 101 (status nascendi) Homage to Giacinto Scelsi A lecture-performance by theatrum phonosophicum (Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts) at Festival MYTHOSLOGOS. [Vedi sotto testo in italiano] A metadialogue, or better yet, a sonic convers’Action about and, above all, with Giacinto Scelsi and his “Inner Mongolia”: passing through Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece (Magna Graecia) … and […]
FESTIVAL PHONOSOPHIA 2025
Festival PHONOSOPHIA (2° edition) 20-21 and 28 June 2025 Museo Nitsch (Fondazione Morra), Naples FEAST OF THE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE SOUND FOR THE SUMMER SOLSTICE 2025 [Vedi sotto testo in italiano] Theatrum Phonosophicum, in cooperation with the Fondazione Morra (Naples), presents the second edition of the PHONOSOPHIA Festival, dedicated to the “Knowledge through the Sound”. […]
RAGA FOR NITSCH
RAGA for NITSCH Renata Frana: dilruba Vins Vassallo, Shushan Hyusnunts e Leopoldo Siano: tanpuras [sotto il testo in italiano] On the occasion of the third anniversary of Maestro Hermann Nitsch’s (1938-2022) departure, theatrum phonosophicum proposes a sound ritual in his memory at the onset of spring. His Seinsphilosophie (‘philosophy of being’) was nourished not only […]
LITURGIA BEUYS
sonic flux totalsystemic ecopoetic Joseph Beuys has never been in Armenia…So we thought to invite him. Felt and fat, stones nourished by olive oil, a honey pump…Every wound is a wonder. Art as healing process.“Follow your bliss!”, Joseph Campbell said.The planet warms up and the Being cools down:homo digitans vs. homo demens.“Metallic Time“, B&B aesthetics, […]
install’Azione PHÓLEOS ONEIROS [caverna sogno] / [the cave of the dream]
A sound space for dreaming, wandering, sleeping conception and direction: Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts [sotto il testo in italiano] With this install’Action, inspired by ancient incubation rituals, the theatrum phonosophicum creates a space in which to dream, to wander and to sleep: through the sound. The space is accessible at a time for only […]
BRUCKNERIANUM | MUSICA E SOPHIA
WORKSHOP OF DEEP LISTENING / WORKSHOP DI ASCOLTO PROFONDO E CONSAPEVOLE [sotto testo in italiano!] The great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler once said that Anton Bruckner is not a composer, but rather a mystic in the tradition of Meister Eckhart and Jakob Böhme: his art is directed towards the super-temporal. Bruckner is a cosmogonic composer par […]
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN. Hommage to Mary Bauermeister
[sotto testo in italiano!] Not least James Hillman taught us that it is the daimon that moves the threads of our path. Depending on how much one is willing to listen to him or not, the encounters one makes also depend on him. In any case, without the encounters with some ‘extraordinary men’, as the […]
WEEKLY COURSE OF THEATRUM PHONOSOPHICUM
Open Call for the Course of theatrum phonosophicum (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 […]