# Theatrum Phonosophicum


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- [THEATRUM KIRCHERIANUM](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/theatrum-kircherianum-an-ecstatic-voyage-through-baroque-skies/): An Ecstatic Voyage through Baroque Skies Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit who spent most of his life in Rome, was above all a seeker of marvels. Known as “the last man who knew everything”, in his own eclectic and syncretic way, he explored angelology and volcanology, acoustics and Egyptian hieroglyphs, magnetism and China… (Not least, Kircher is the inventor of the word “phonosophia“: the “Knowledge through the Sound“…). Kircher was a quintessential figure of his time, the Baroque era. For his scholarly books full of imagination and images, Kircher was later admired by the Surrealists and Umberto Eco. This lecture-performance […]
- [ARTAUD chez NITSCH con GÉRARD PAPE](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/artaud-chez-nitsch-con-gerard-pape/):  (english text below) Gérard Pape (nato a New York nel 1955 in una famiglia italo-americana originaria di Sala Consilina) è compositore e psicoanalista lacaniano. Dal 1991 vive a Parigi. È stato direttore degli Ateliers UPIC / CCMIX (Centre de Création Musical Iannis Xenakis) dal 1991 al 2007, un centro di computer music fondato dal compositore-architetto Iannis Xenakis. Nel 2008 fonda e tutt’oggi dirige il CLSI (Circolo per la Liberazione del Suono e dell’Immagine) a Parigi, che è un ensemble di computer e strumenti acustici, con cui produce concerti e festival. Desiderio, eccesso, corpo e jouissance sono stati a lungo oggetto […]
- [Il SUONO DI DIONISIO (The Sound of Dionysos)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/il-suono-di-dionisio-the-sound-of-dionysos/): Il suono di Dionisio con Angelo Tonelli e il Theatrum Phonosophicum (english text below) Programma ore 10 – 12 IL SUONO DI DIONISO seminario sulla musica del ‘Teatro delle Orge e dei Misteri’ di Hermann Nitsch (Leopoldo Siano) ore 15 – 18 NEGLI ABISSI LUMINOSI workshop teorico-pratico su sciamanesimo, trance ed estasi nella Grecia antica (Angelo Tonelli) ore 19 lectio magistralis di Angelo Tonelli: “Le BACCANTI di Euripide come dramma misterico” (con ascolti sonori proposti dal theatrum phonosophicum)   THE SOUND OF DIONYSOS (with Angelo Tonelli & Theatrum Phonosophicum Program 10:00 – 12:00:  The sound of Dionysos. A seminar about […]
- [ASCOLTATORI SELVAGGI](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/ascoltatori-selvaggi/): Lalineascritta Laboratori di Scrittura | Opificio Puca | theatrum phonosophicum presentano STRANE COPPIE 2025 | 17ma edizione ASCOLTATORI SELVAGGI Anti-festival di sortilegi senza menzogne 16, 18 e 26 ottobre 2025 ORE 18.00 – 20.00 ANTEPRIMA TOO WILD TO GO (Troppo selvaggio per sprecarlo) Installazione video di Luigi Pingitore Un doppio binario: suoni senza immagini, immagini con suoni già ascoltati, per raccogliere e conservare frammenti sonori e visivi, trasformando ogni gesto di ascolto in un atto di recupero culturale. IL CINEMA DEI FANTASMI con Luigi Pingitore e Leopoldo Siano coordina Antonella Cilento letture di Arianna Scommegna musica di Paolo Coletta Le trame di tre grandi racconti:  Una radio straordinaria di John Cheever, La maschera […]
- [SEPEITHOS (workshop) / IN SEARCH OF SOUND ACTIONISM (lecture-performance)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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 progress SEPEITHOS is a project created during the research residency of the theatrum phonosophicum at the Nitsch Museum Naples (Fondazione Morra) 2023-2025. This workshop uses sound examples and listening exercises to teach listening as a creative activity. Through a “mythical method” of free associations between […]
- [NOSTOS 101 (Lecture-Performance)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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 Pitelli, his birthplace… As G. Scelsi, a mundane hermit and “postman from the  beyond”, wrote about his work Ttai: “The agitated should abstain”! 20th August, 21:00 Chiostro di San Francesco Via Agostino Paci 8, 19038 Sarzana SP NOSTOS 101 (status nascendi) Omaggio a Giacinto Scelsi […]
- [Günther Brus and the distant sound. Radiophonic action #9](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/gunther-brus-and-the-distant-sound-radiophonic-action-2/): Based on the cosversations at Museo Nitsch, Naples, about the exhibition “The distant sound. Günter Brus and music” wich took place at BRUSEUM, Graz.
- [FESTIVAL PHONOSOPHIA 2025](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/festival-phonosophia-2nd-edition-20-21-28-june-naples/): 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”. With a cosmopolitan  élan, the festival intends to celebrate the summer solstice with three days dedicated to the knowledge through the sound and to “total listening”, creating synaesthetic experiential spaces in which ancient traditional knowledge is combined with experimental practices (this year: from acoustic ecology […]
- [RAGA FOR NITSCH](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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 by pre-Socratic, but also Upanishadic and Buddhist thought. Nitsch was also a great admirer of Indian classical music and of La Monte Young, the father of drone music, who was also deeply influenced by the immense musical tradition of India. In occasione del terzo anniversario […]
- [LITURGIA BEUYS](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/liturgia-beuys-i-sonic-flux-totalsystemic-ecopoetic/): 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, impoverishment of the experience…It’s getting cold!To produce WARMTH through the SOUND.Beuys‘ life as permanent theatre…Capital = Creativity.What is EUROPE? A beautiful girl who came from Lebanon… Stories about sounds and sounds who tell stories…Listen to Beuys! The echo of his voice is still audible. Performers: […]
- [install'Azione PHÓLEOS ONEIROS [caverna sogno] / [the cave of the dream]](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/installazione-pholeos-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 8 blindfolded persons who will be guided individually per hand by a phólarchos (a ‘lord of the cave’) through the arches of the cellar of the ancient Monastery of Trentatré. Sound is dream, but it can also be a means of awakening. Awakening in the […]
- [BRUCKNERIANUM | MUSICA E SOPHIA](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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 excellence. His music tells us of “that time”, of the beginning of all beginnings, of the universe in its nascent state. It is like the mirror of Dionysus: listening to it, one experiences the ‘will of the world’ in its majestic and abyssal becoming. With […]
- [MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN. Hommage to Mary Bauermeister](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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 Armenian Gurdjieff put it, the idea of the theatrum phonosophicum could not have taken shape and seen the light. Based on story-telling and listening, we dedicate this meeting to the German artist Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023) who would have been 90 years old this year. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————- […]
- [WEEKLY COURSE OF THEATRUM PHONOSOPHICUM](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/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, a place for sharing creativity, in which through the synthesis and the addition of different artistic expressions, a work on oneself and the collective unconscious becomes possible. Hence the aspiration to the confluence of the arts, to the Gesamtkunstwerk (from ancient Greek theatre to Richard […]
- [SOUND AND SOPHIA / Workshop for creative listening and sound actionism](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/suono-e-sophia-laboratorio-di-ascolto-creativo-e-azionismo-sonoro/): 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 listening to the music of the Occident and the Orient, to the soundscape that surrounds us, to sound and silence. The moments of listening will alternate with moments of sound actionism. The listener is not a passive recipient, but a creator! For whom? The weekly […]
- [L'EBBREZZA DELL'ESSERE (THE INEBRIATION OF BEING)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/lebbrezza-dellessere-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 Morra in precious editions, represent a “secret part” of Nitschʼs work. Never translated and little known even in the German-speaking world, even for connoisseurs of the Viennese masterʼs oeuvre they have always remained on the margins compared to his other scores and theoretical-poetical writings. Harmating, […]
- [Festival PHONOSOPHIA 21-23 June 2024, Attigliano](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/festival-phonosophia-21st-23rd-june-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 traditional knowledge is combined with experimental practices. The PHONOSOPHIA Festival will present different types of events: lecture-performances, sound rituals, installations, poetic-philosophical readings, “cinema for the ears” (musique acousmatique), discussions, sound walks, workshops, creative retreats etc., involving internationally leading personalities of the artistic-cultural scene of the […]
- [AKRÓASIS | FROM THE CICADA TO MARIA CALLAS… (HOMAGE TO MARIUS SCHNEIDER)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/akroasis-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 to Marius Schneider (1903-1982), the German researcher of cosmogonies and acoustic symbols, who dedicated his life to proof that sound is the origin and essence of all things, i.e. that the world itself is music. Not only human beings can sing: but also animals, plants, […]
- [SEPEITHOS. The vanished river of Naples (A lecture-performance on epical listening for the Holy Friday)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/sepeithos-the-vanished-river-of-naples-a-lecture-performance-on-epical-listening-for-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 is the listening of a city for 24 hours, immerging in the many layers and spaces of Naples’ unconscious: an epic stream of field recordings, sound images, objects, substances and thoughts – mixing memories and desires, centuries and millennia… (Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater as fil rouge). […]
- [The Art of Listening](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/workshops/the-art-of-listening-2/): 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 they are performing, in the sense of perceiving the occurrence of sounds in the global space-time continuum. In this weekly workshop – that one can join at every time – we want to encourage a sensitive, active and deep listening. Starting from the ideas of […]
- [Sound Walks](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/workshops/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](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/workshops/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 at home: Southern Italy, the German-speaking countries and Armenia.
- [Overtone Chanting](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/workshops/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 they can become audible and tangible. One discovers the inner world of sound as embodiment of a universal law of all vibrations. And so, one starts to hear overtones not only in the own voice, but everywhere in the acoustic environment. The knowledge of the […]
- [Theatrum Phonosophicum (a manifesto)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/theatrum-phonosophicum/): This small book is a kind of poetic manifesto of the theatrum phonosophicum. A limited edition in 101 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Published in December 2023, Naples (in Italian language). For informations write to phonosophianova@gmail.com or theatrumphonosophicum@gmail.com
- [Long-Durational Performance for the Finissage of "FABULA"](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/long-durational-performance-for-the-finnisage-of-fabula/): The last two days of the photo-exhibition by Mane Hovhannisyan, called “Fabula”, have been marked by a long-durational performance by theatrum phonosophicum with ongoing sound installations. The protagonists of the photo cycle have inhabited the place of the exhibition/installation in a performative way, also sleeping and eating there, projecting their sound works, acting with different objects, having intimate conversations with occasional visitors, or keeping silence and listening… (“just sitting and being aware of the universal activity”). The final day was highlighted by the “spectral appearances” of viola player Vincent Royer, who improvised interacting with the exhibition/installation.   Photo credits: Lia […]
- [Theatrum Phonosophicum. Interviste e scritti](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/theatrum-phonosophicum-intervisti-e-scritti/): Theatrum Phonosophicum. Interviews and writings (in Italian language). This volume collects interviews and writings, in particular on the activities of the theatrum phonosophicum in Armenia between 2022 and 2023. A limited edition in 101 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Published in December 2023, Naples For informations write to phonosophianova@gmail.com or theatrumphonosophicum@gmail.com
- [Vladimir Ivanovič Martynov, "Immergersi nel flusso"](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/leopoldo/): A collection of writings of one of the major Russian composers and thinkers of the last decades, Vladimir Martynov, for the first time presented in Italian language. These texts offer an insight into the original thinking of this versatile artist. Edited by Shushan Hyusnunts Published by Mimesis Edizioni, in the series Kaliki, Milano 2023. https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/9791222300689
- [𝐃𝐀𝐒 𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐋. A lecture-performance for the winter solstice](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/%f0%9d%90%83%f0%9d%90%80%f0%9d%90%92-%f0%9d%90%86%f0%9d%90%8b%f0%9d%90%80%f0%9d%90%92%f0%9d%90%8f%f0%9d%90%84%f0%9d%90%91%f0%9d%90%8b%f0%9d%90%84%f0%9d%90%8d%f0%9d%90%92%f0%9d%90%8f%f0%9d%90%88/): The last novel of Hermann Hesse is about a mysterious practice, based on cosmo-poetic analogies: the Glasperlenspiel (“Glass Bead Game”). Essentially, this Game – a sort of “magic theatre” – aspires to be a synthesis of all arts and sciences. Though the rules of the game are never explained, only alluded. In this Game, music has a central role and it is in connection with mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. Inspired by this novel, through a mythical method of free associations, the Theatrum Phonosophicum develops a multisensorial performative event for celebrating the winter solstice, that is: the rebirth of Light. The […]
- [FABULA](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/fabula/): • Photography Exhibition | Mane Hovhannisyan • Sound Installation | theatrum phonosophicum The main idea of this photo series is to show the different kinds of interaction between humans, objects and places. Of particular interest to Mane Hovhannisyan are the moments in which the people seem to become totems and the objects seem to be enlivened. This is what she calls a “magic documentary”. The story of FABULA was realized between 2017 and 2019 in two different places: the first one in the apartment of Shushan Hyusnunts and Leopoldo Siano (protagonists of the cycle) in a village called Kürten, in […]
- [Parziwal + ~ ~ ~ H.N.](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/parziwal/): A durational performance, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner and the Grail’s legends. Poetry is the daughter of liturgy. Total listening, a 360-degree view. Slow transitions, with some eruptions of beauty. Intensity of perception and sensation. In a four-hour long process, performers and public are plunged in another state of mind, in which all things are seen sub specie aeternitatis. A celebration of the Mystery of the Spring (… in memoriam Hermann Nitsch). Performers: Hasmik Tangyan, Mary Bayatyan & others Related links and readings: https://cultural.am/hy/norutyunner/harcazruyc/4085-performans-vor-ognec-linel-aystex-ev-hima?fbclid=IwAR1ScUB0kHISfTzLU6QiXuSBRs7aDGn6vsqnryjp-96alKGEnv7uOxneJYM Parziwal + ~ ~ ~ H.N. Mistero di Primavera. Un evento in memoriam Hermann […]
- [Joyce & Bach. Homage to Peter Kubelka](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/joyce-bach/): A lecture-performance between experimental cinema, literature, music, and cooking as an art. Homage to the Viennese film maker and anthropologist of cooking Peter Kubelka. What do Bach and Joyce have in common? The answer is already given in the title of the event: once Peter Kubelka said that his “two gods” are Johann Sebastian Bach and James Joyce… Following the free associations of our own imaginative paths, we have crossed the work of Joyce and Bach, intertwining it with some major leitmotifs of Kubelka’s work. This event can be understood as an echo of our voyage to Vienna in 2020, […]
- [The Art of Listening](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/the-art-of-listening/): Weekly workshop: “The Art of Listening” For anyone who has healthy ears, listening is something obvious, that everyone can do. But there is a substantial difference between “hearing“ and “listening“. Listening is actually an authentic art, and if it is practiced, it can greatly enrich our being in the world. Not infrequently even professional musicians are not really used to listening to what they are performing, in the sense of perceiving the occurrence of sounds in the global space-time continuum. In this weekly workshop (one can join at any time ) we want to encourage sensitive, active, and deep listening. […]
- [Étrangeté #2](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/etrangete-2/): A series for “experimental film“ & “cinema for the ears“ Where do the images come from? What is the difference between dream images and images perceived during wakefulness? Cinema, initially the art of moving images, can sometimes reveal a solution to the enigma… In this series, we will present and discuss experimental films beyond the mainstream of commercial cinema: mostly proliferation of images and events, than linear stories . If the attachment to common structured meanings is obliterated, the proliferating images can slowly transforms our state of consciousness…. Alternating with the avant-gard films, also visionary acoustic artifacts of the so-called […]
- [Étrangeté #1](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/etrangete/): A series for “experimental film“ & “cinema for the ears“ Where do the images come from? What is the difference between dream images and images perceived during wakefulness? Cinema, initially the art of moving images, can sometimes reveal a solution to the enigma… In this series, we will present and discuss experimental films beyond the mainstream of commercial cinema: mostly the proliferation of images and events, rather than linear stores. If the attachment to common structured meanings is obliterated, the proliferating images can slowly transform our state of consciousness… Alternating with the avant-gard films, visionary acoustic artifacts of the so-called […]
- [SHÂNTI. Homage to Jean-Claude Eloy. A guided listening](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/shanti-eloy/): A meditation on Peace and War through the Sound (“cinema for the ears”). On November 19th at the “Ground Floor” of The State Philharmonia of Armenia, the series of  multisensorial events “Theatrum Phonosophicum” will start. The series is launched with a tribute to the French composer Jean-Claude Eloy. A guided listening experience of the parts of his electro-acoustical fresco “Shânti”, composed between 1972 and 1973 at the Electronic Studio of the WDR (Cologne). In Sanskrit “shânti“ means “peace“. However, Eloyʼs “Shânti”is not a “pacifistic“ work. Paradoxically, despite the title, it is also a work about war as a cosmic principle. […]
- [LE COIN PARAJANOV #2 & ASNAMUS](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/le-coin-parajanov-hayart/): It was in Naples, in 2021, when we met the dancer and choreographer Ainara López during the artist-in-residence program “The Art of Remembering” (directed by Samina Virani at the Fondazione Morra). A few minutes after we met we were already immersed in conversations about Sergei Parajanov, whose art has been a big source of inspiration both for us and for Ainara. To that time we had already realized a sound collage called ASNAMUS (Hommage to Sergei Parajanov), and Ainara, for her part, the choreographic tableau vivant “Le Coin Parajanov”. Of course, the next idea was to develop a common project. […]
- [NIGYAR. Interventions on memory (performance) & ASNAMUS (sound installation)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/asnamus-and-cartographies-of-the-souvenier/): Asnamus (Hommage to Sergey Parajanov) The most important thing is the frame. The films of Parajanov are fantastic assemblages of images, sounds, hermetical actions. The power of imagination can trasmutate also “garbage”. 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…   Ainara López about the performance “Intervention on memory”: This improvisation is part of a work in progress project called “Cartographies of the souvenir” where I do create poetic maps of my own memories by reappropiating someone else’s ones. This […]
- ["HAPPENING" FOR ALEXANDER SCRIABIN](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/happening-for-alexander-scriabin/): A synesthetic event for all senses, as homage to the great visionary composer Alexander Scriabin, on the occasion of his 150th anniversary (1872-2022). Scriabin’s vision of a “Mysterium” (a 7 days performance in a spherical temple in India) remained unrealized at his time, but its echo has been very powerful till today, inspiring numerous creators of “total works of art” (among others: Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Hermann Nitsch, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg). “Happening” as a polyphony of simultaneous events, combining fin de siècle atmospheres and the anarchic art of the 1960’s (Fluxus etc.): sounds, words, images, movements, silences, lights, […]
- [Invitation to listen to a journal](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/invitation-to-listen-to-the-journal/): The last issue of the journal “actual art” is dedicated to music. From Komitas to Pierre Schaeffer, from Glenn Gould to Tigran Mansuryan, from Alexander Spendiarian to Thelonious Monk… Do we really listen to that music works we read about, or do we just pass from one article to another, and postpone the listening with the self-promise “I will do it later”? This lecture and the collage-like listening session is a poetic response to the form, content, and unexpected thematic constellations of this issue of “actual art”.
- [LITURGIA BEUYS at LTK4, COLOGNE](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/ltk-beuys-liturgie/): The sound installation LITURGIA BEUYS was included in the program of Soiré Sonique #52, which took place at the center for sound based arts LTK4 in Cologne. This sound installation is a tribute to Joseph Beuys on the occasion of the artist’s 100th birthday and was also part of the online project “Beuys 100”. related links: https://soundcloud.com/theatrumphonosophicum/liturgia-beuys-beuys-liturgie https://ltk4.de/portfolio/soiree-sonique-52/
- [THEATRUM PHONOSOPHICUM. A MANIFESTO (lecture-performance)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/lecture-performance-napoli-the-art-of-remembering/): This lecture-performance was created during our participation in the residency programme “The Art of Remembering” by THE RABBIT HOLE. It was the first performative expression of the main ideas of the theatrum phonosophicum. Based on the material of this lecture, a small book “Theatrum Phonosophicum” has been later published: https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/   Related links: https://www.101010n.com/the-final-responses-2022 https://www.101010n.com/theatrum-phonosophicum   Photo Credits: Fondazione Morra, Samina Virani
- [LITURGIA BEUYS IN NAPLES](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/beuys-liturgie-napoli/): The sound installation LITURGIA-BEUYS was presented at Museo Nitsch on the last day of residency program “The Art of the Remembering”. This installative space was shared with the artists Ainara López and Olec Mün. Copyright of the photos: Fondazione Morra, Samina Virani Related links: https://www.101010n.com/the-final-responses-2022 https://soundcloud.com/theatrumphonosophicum/liturgia-beuys-beuys-liturgie  
- [Giacinto Scelsi and the Inner Mongolia. A spiritual cartography (in Italian)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/giacinto-scelsi-and-the-inner-mongolia-a-spiritual-cartography-in-italian/)
- ["Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt..." The way of  Alexander Lauterwasser (in German)  (Heiligenberg, 6th August 2021)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/wer-wissenschaft-und-kunst-besitzt-the-way-of-alexander-lauterwasser-in-german-heiligenberg-6-august-2021/): A conversation with Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts (Heiligenberg, 6th August 2021).
- [NICOLA CISTERNINO](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/nicola-cisternino/)
- [ÉLIANE RADIGUE (in German)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/eliane-radigue-in-german/)
- [AVET TERTERIAN (in Italian)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/avet-terterian-in-italian/)
- [AVET TERTERIAN (in German)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/avet-terterian-in-german/)
- [FRANCISCO LÓPEZ](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/francisco-lopez/)
- [RAIMOND MURRAY SCHAFER](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/podcasts/raimond-murray-schafer/)
- [THEATRUM MEMORIAE](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/theatrum-memoriae/): 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”.
- [LITURGIA BEUYS / BEUYS-LITURGY](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/liturgia-beuys-beuys-liturgie/): 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’’] […]
- [ASNAMUS (Hommage to Sergei Parajanov)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/asnamus-hommage-to-sergei-parajanov/): 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…
- [sehr traurige „Amusik" (Tonkunst), ein klingende[s] SCHWITTERS [excerpt]](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/very-sad-music-schwitters/): „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 […]
- [PRELUDE - INSTALLATION ("The Glass Bead Game")](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/prelude-installation-the-glass-bead-game/): 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.
- [The Golden Sound (Final of the “The Glass Bead Game”)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/the-golden-sound-final-of-the-the-glass-bead-game/): 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.
- [AKASHA (klang-raum Terterian)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/akasha-klang-raum-terterian/): 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.
- [ANDROGINO. Sound install'Action for ancient places (excerpt)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/androgino-sound-installaction-for-ancient-places-excerpt/): 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, […]
- [Ջու(ղ)թակ / Ju(kh)tak (A Spectral Door)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/sound-installations/%d5%bb%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b2%d5%a9%d5%a1%d5%af-jukhtak-a-spectral-door/): 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.
- [ANGELO TONELLI. About the Initiatic Theatre(in Italian)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/angelo-tonelli-about-the-initiatory-theater-in-italian/): Conversation with Leopoldo Siano, 30th August 2022, Arcola (birthplace of Giacinto Scelsi)
- [KRISTALLEON IM GESPRÄCH (in German)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/kristalleon-im-gesprach-in-german-2/): This sound collage was realized using the audio recordings of a conversation with Kristalleon (born as Christoph Müller), Rösrath-Forsbach, 13th September 2022.
- [THE HARMONY OF THE WORLD. THE PATH OF HARTMUT WARM (Die Harmonie der Welt. Der Weg von Hartmut Warm) Part 1](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/the-harmony-of-the-world-the-path-of-hartmut-warm-die-harmonie-der-welt-der-weg-von-hartmut-warm-part-1/): This podcast was realized using the audio recordings of a conversation with Hartmut Warm (Kürten, 16th July 2022).
- [THE HARMONY OF THE WORLD. THE PATH OF HARTMUT WARM (Die Harmonie der Welt. Der Weg von Hartmut Warm) Part 2](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/the-harmony-of-the-world-the-path-of-hartmut-warm-die-harmonie-der-welt-der-weg-von-hartmut-warm-part-2/): This podcast was realized using the audio recordings of a conversation with Hartmut Warm (Kürten, 16th July 2022).
- [HERMANN NITSCH and  RICHARD WAGNER (a plea for the  o.m.t. in bayreuth) (in German)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/hermann-nitsch-and-richard-wagner-a-plea-for-the-o-m-t-in-bayreuth-in-german/): Based on the recording of a lecture given by Leopoldo Siano at the Hotel Grauer Bär in Innsbruck (Austria) on 23th June 2018 for the Richard-Wagner-Verband International e.V.
- [GERARD PAPE ON HIS THEATRE](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/gerard-pape-on-his-theatre/): Based on a conversation with Gerard Pape, recorded on 8th March 2021
- [PETER KUBELKA MUSICUS (part 1)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/peter-kubelka-musicus-part-1/): This sound collage was realized using the audio recordings of our memorable visit to Peter Kubelka in Vienna (3rd July 2020) and some other historical materials from our archive.
- [PETER KUBELKA MUSICUS (part 2)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic-actions/kristalleon-im-gesprach-in-german/): This sound collage was realized using the audio recordings of our memorable visit to Peter Kubelka in Vienna (3rd July 2020) and some other historical materials from our archive.
- [WORKSHOP ON THE MUSIC OF HERMANN NITSCH (MISTELBACH)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/workshop-on-the-music-of-hermann-nitsch-mistelbach/): Between primeval noise and harmony of the spheres. Workshop on the music of Orgies and Mysteries Theatre of Hermann Nitsch, conducted by Leopoldo Siano with assistance of Shushan Hyusnunts. The roots of Hermann Nitsch’s Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries are primarily philosophical and musical. Nitsch’s musical œuvre, which is between of Anton Bruckner and John Cage, comprises not only “action music” but also symphonies, ensemble and organ works. This seminar provides an intensive immersion into the philosophical/musical world of Hermann Nitsch and his Orgies Mysteries Theatre. With audio samples featuring commentary, Nitsch’s music is linked more closely with his entire […]
- [WORKSHOP ON THE MUSIC OF HERMANN NITSCH (Naples)](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/projects/workshop-on-nitsch-music-napoli/): A full immersion in the philosophical-musical world of Hermann Nitsch. The seminar includes a theoretical part with the discussion of Nitsch’s writings and sound examples, as well a practical part aimed at the collective creation of a “sound performance” (Klangaktion) in homage to the Maestro, as the conclusion of the event. Hermann Nitsch’s Theater of Orgies and Mysteries is conceived as an all-encompassing experience for the five senses. Its roots are essentially philosophical and musical. Nitsch receives the fundamental impulses for his Gesamtkunstwerk not only from Greek tragedy, the philosophy of the pre-Socratics and Nietzsche, the psychoanalysis of Freud and […]
- [Musica Cosmogonica](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/teatrum/): En archē ēn ho Logos: “In the beginning was the Word”. This is the traditional translation of the Incipit of the Gospel of John. In Goethe’s “Faust” (Part I, Study Room), other possible interpretations of the term “logos” are suggested: “meaning”, “power”, “action”. The sentence could also be translated as: “In the beginning was the Sound”. Sound plays a decisive role in many creation myths of different cultures. Poets, philosophers, theologians, scientists, artists of all kinds and, last but not least, musicians have always been concerned with the question of the origin of the world. From the perspective of a […]
- [Shushan 1](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/shushan-1/)
- [Radiophonic](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/sonic-artefacts/radiophonic/)
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- [Tra rumore primordiale e armonie delle sfere: La musica di Hermann Nitsch](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/tra-rumore-primordiale-e-armonie-delle-sfere-la-musica-di-hermann-nitsch/): Between primordial noise and the harmony of the spheres. The music of Hermann Nitsch. Published by Edizioni Morra, Naples 2018. https://www.fondazionemorra.org/it/pubblicazioni/page/7/
- [François Bayle, "The Adventure of Listening"](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/francois-bayle-teh-adventure-of-listening/): François Bayle, Die Abenteuer des Hörens / The advendture of listening / Lʼaventure de lʼécoute, edited by Leopoldo Siano with Christoph von Blumröder. Published by: Der Apfel, Vienna 2020. https://verlagderapfel.at/neuerscheinungen/index.php/produkt/francois-bayle-aventures-decoute-adventures-of-listening-abenteuer-des-hoerens/ http://www.magison.org/publications.html
- [Gerard Pape, "Musipoesci"](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/gerard-pape-musipoesci/): Gerard Pape, MusiPoeSci. Écrits autour de la musique, with partecipation od Leopoldo Siano / MusiPoeSci. Writings about music, edited by Leopoldo Siano, Éditions Michel de Maule: Paris 2014. Languages: English, French What is MusiPoeSci? The composer, Gerard Pape, finds that the composer cannot pretend to be a scientist, but that, like Varese, he can find inspiration in the sciences for his musical poetry on the condition that he is not fooled by such notions as “scientific progress” or that he takes technological advances as his main goal. In this book, we find an interview with Pape, fifteen of his texts and four analyses of his music. MUSIPOESCI plunges us into the unique […]
- [Karlheinz Stockhausen’s last composition cycle “Klang. Die 24 Stunden des Tages”](https://theatrumphonosophicum.art/publications/karlheinz-stockhausens-last-composition-cycle-klang-die-24-stunden-des-tages/): After the opera heptalogy “LIGHT. The 7 days of the week” (1977-2003) Karlheinz Stockhausen began the cycle of the 24 hours of the day: KLANG (“Sound”). Nevertheless, before his death on 5th December 2007, he wasn’t able to finish it. Sketches for KLANG and other documents, which are published comprehensively here for the first time, show how the premonition of death has been crucial for the chosen compositional strategies. In this book, the cycle KLANG becomes the starting point for a  philosophical examination of Stockhausen’s entire oeuvre and musical poetics. The “Case of Stockhausen” is considered phenomenologically as an “event” of Western cultural history […]

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