Wednesday 26 May 2021

SUONI, SILENZIO E SOGNI: dal paesaggio sonoro dell'Alta Langa alla terra dei sogni

Photo: Eugenio Pini (CC BY-NC-ND)

SUONI, SILENZIO E SOGNI

Dal paesaggio sonoro dell'Alta Langa alla terra dei sogni

G. Gavazza, G. Micene, M.G. Siri


“Lo shock con cui percepiamo certi momenti come già vissuti ci colpisce solitamente come un suono. È una parola, un battito, un fruscio a cui è stato conferito il potere magico di portarci d’un tratto nel passato”. W. Benjamin, Scritti autobiografici.

(The shock with which we perceive certain moments as already experienced usually strikes us like a sound. It's a word, a beat, a rustle that has been given the magical power to take us suddenly into the past.) 


“Questo stato di coscienza, suddivisa dalla veglia e dal sonno [...], va ora solo trasposta dall'individuo alla collettività. Va da sé che gran parte di ciò che per l'individuo è esterno appartiene per la collettività alla propria interiorità”. W. Benjamin, I “passages” di Parigi.

(This state of consciousness, subdivided from wakefulness and sleep [...], is now only transposed from the individual to the collective. It goes without saying that a large part of what for the individual is external belongs for the community to its interiority.)


Abstract

Questo lavoro descrive un'esperienza di ascolto del paesaggio sonoro - in un contesto specifico (Alta Langa, Piemonte meridionale) - in cui si vuole far convergere ascolto, cammino e sogno, per esplorare i passaggi da un'esperienza all'altra e comprenderne le reciproche influenze.
Questa esperienza, che ha subito un'interruzione forzata a causa della pandemia ed è in attesa di essere ripresa, ha due obiettivi:
- creare un format per piccoli gruppi, applicabile in diversi contesti, che metta in relazione tre dimensioni: il corpo attivato dall'antica azione del camminare, l'ascolto del paesaggio sonoro in cui ci si muove e la condivisione dei sogni;
- esplorare quali potenzialità offre la connessione tra queste tre dimensioni ponte tra il mondo interno individuale e l'ambiente.

The full article in the English version by Sophie Provost can be read here:  https://lcv.hypotheses.org/16855 




Wednesday 13 January 2021

CRESSON B-AIR WInterschool 2021: vulnerabilities and sounds, the experience of listening


The 9th winter school organized by CRESSON is welcoming this year the « B-AIR Art Infinity Radio » project supported by the Creative Europe Culture Program (EACEA).
Since 2013, the CRESSON winter school takes the form of a week of research and practices in order to discuss and explore the laboratory’s methods and concepts in their capacities to give some answers to a specific topic in link with the sound environment, its study, and its transformations. 
This year the theme is “vulnerabilities and sounds, the experience of listening”.
In a world where the immediacy of information, as well as the quickness of actions, has become the rule, it seems more and more challenging to take the time. The acceleration of lifestyles and ways of thinking has become a prerequisite for success. Nevertheless, in parallel with this fast-moving world, long-term issues are being increasingly neglected, creating socialenvironmental, and spatial « vulnerabilities ». It is precisely at the intersection of these stakes that the question of ambiances and more particularly of sounds can appear like a catch. Listening to the environment, a gesture that may seem simple and insignificant becomes a powerful tool for considering places and words at scales and temporalities that are difficult to reach with the visual.
Sound is a medium intrinsically related to time, but also very capable of questioning scales that are often « left aside » because they appear to be too obvious, too small, or on the other hand too large. Therefore, the sound could be considered as a lever for considering, questioning, or reframing these issues.
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Process
The Winter School will be held this year both in Grenoble (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble) and in Volos, Greece (Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly). This event is funded by the « B-AIR Art Infinity Radio » project, one of the winning projects of the European call of the Culture Program of the European Agency for Culture, Education and Creation (EACEA). Students, teachers, researchers, decision-makers, architects, artists, urban planners, sociologists, sound recorders, young or “less young” professionals … and anyone interested in sound are welcome to participate in and need to fill the application here :
** Due to the covid-19 crisis, all the week of events will take place online**
Theories and practices over 5 days, from 
Monday 18th to Friday 22nd January 2021
The program of the week will articulate training times and theoretical speech to a workshop on the « material » sound whose objective will be to achieve a production over the week resonating with the topic. The workshop will thus be an opportunity to question sound as a way of entering or projecting on issues that today appear to be more and more important, but less and less in phase with the trends and mediums of our contemporary world.
The mornings will be dedicated to theoretical contributions and thematic exchanges that will present angles of approach on the theme but also tracks of reflection that can then be used during the workshop time.
The afternoons will be exclusively dedicated to the time of the workshop, which will last the whole week, and will frame the production by the participants of a creative/reflective/interrogative proposal through the sound material.
As a conclusion of this week, Friday will be organized in the morning with times of exchange between the speakers and participants to open the perspectives of debate and the afternoon will be a time of « restitution » and exchange on the participants’ productions.
 ( See the detailed program )
https://ehas.hypotheses.org/4629 
Working languages: English / French / Greek / Italian

Wednesday 18 March 2020

Ascolto il tuo cuore, città: diario sonoro al tempo del COVID19

Ascolto il tuo cuore, città *1
Listening to my city at the time of COVID19



In these difficult days of COVID19 pandemic emergency disposition, living in a big Italian city my immediate reaction has been to go outside regularly to record the sounds of my district, a neighborhood in the center of Turin, until a few days ago very lively: shops, the outdoor market, bars and restaurants during the day; cinemas, theaters, public places at night; the Valentino park, the largest green area in the centre of Turin.

The sound walks and soundscapes made so far are a work in progress already available on the net to sites that allow a geotag connection with Google Maps as aporee(.)org and cartophonies(.)fr.
I added to the audio recording the files, made with a geo-tracker GPS app, which provides details of the movements that can be synchronized with the audio recordings.
This allows an acoustic exploration in space and time of this environment in this period and in this context.

It is not possible to predict how the situation will evolve but I am convinced that is a great shift; perhaps, even for us, a sensitive mutation.
Everything changes and the change is often not visible: but is it audible?

Follow the acoustic journal here:

https://terpress.blogspot.com/2020/03/audio-testimonianze-al-tempo-del-covid19.htmlhttps://terpress.blogspot.com/2020/03/audio-testimonianze-al-tempo-del-covid19.html



*1: “Ascolto la tua voce, città” (I listen to your heart, city) is a book by Alberto Savinio.
Painter, composer, musicologist, writer (brother of the much more well-known Giorgio De Chirico, but no less genial than him) in this book Savinio flâneur narrates his Milan
I like to borrow this title for my sonorous flânerie round my city, Turin.
The book exists in the French version "Ville, j'écoute ton cœur" published by Gallimard.

Thursday 16 May 2019

Tea For Two: first performance at CRESSON, 40ans, Grenoble, mardi 14 mai 2019

First performance of Tea For Two a composition of Giuseppe Gavazza 
for realtime GENESIS playing model and live electronics. 

In the frame of the events for the 40 years of CRESSON, Grenoble I have performed the new piece, composed for this specific situation Tea for Two. In this composition, for the first time, a real time GENESIS physical model musical instrument play and is processed by a real time audio analog device: SODA









Something new is a very irregular new(s)letter mainly about me 

(Giuseppe Gavazza)

Thursday 9 May 2019

Cine-concert: "Ètude sur Paris" de André Sauvage, 1928. Cinémathèque de Tours, lundi 6 mai 2019





Cine-concert: "Ètude sur Paris" de André Sauvage, 1928. 
Cinémathèque de Tours, lundi 6 mai 2019
Soundtrack live surround de Giuseppe Gavazza: 
lap top, modified dan-bao, e-bow, burn-ya, tape music box, m'bira, mouth harmonica










Something new is a very irregular new(s)letter about me 

(Giuseppe Gavazza)

New articles on EWS, TERPRESS: "JFT Torino: blog quasi quotidiano." Jazz Festival Torino










Something new is a very irregular new(s)letter about me 

(Giuseppe Gavazza)