LISTENING Can you imagine rain without the rain, the sound made only with our voices? It began like this and went even further. Metamorphoses in a personal storm, with thunder like bells running in memories of old rains from other days: how did the rain and water feel then? The dynamic of water is felt […]
VIDEO “..when everything is ‘it’, living and non-living, our language cannot distinguish between a bird and a plane….Potawatomi can distinguish between a bird and a plane because it has two different verbs for listening: depending if you are listening to something animate or inanimate” The Difference between a Bird and a Plane is a 3-episode […]
LISTENING / TALK L’audio-serie sci-fi Cronache di vita di Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. segue il viaggio della ricercatrice Dorothea e le sue peripezie nell’estrarre (e rivendere) suoni del passato. Prendendo spunto dall’archeologia sonora e in particolare dalle teorie dell’archeoacustica, l’opera descrive un futuro immaginario in cui il suono può essere estratto dagli oggetti e dalla materia. […]
LISTENING Phalena, a creature from the future and member of an underground society, discovers a sound documentary from 2020. She is surprised to hear women talking about menopause, pregnancy, love, ecofeminism, climate change… Inspired by these women, she decides to record a message for the surface: “If you exist, you will hear me through the […]
LIVE venerdì 10 dicembre 2021 Sparizioni is a radio project that Muta Imago developed in 2020 during the first months of lockdown. Seven episodes, seven stages of a journey that investigates the concepts of disappearance, ego withdrawal and evasion. Each episode takes the form of a letter sent from a remote place, where Riccardo Fazi […]
LIVE LUCIA 2021 opens with an address by astrophysicist Emanuele Pace who will try to reconnect the dots putting together the innate human desire of storytelling and and its attraction to the unknown and to the immensity of the universe. Emanuele Pace is an astrophysicist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence.
LISTENING Meteor Bodies has been produced with the support of Lucia Festival and You Are So Sound! Mentorship program.Kate Donovan has worked together with mentor Katharina Smets. In 1954, a woman was woken from her nap on the couch by a meteorite crashing through the ceiling of her home, bouncing off the radio and eventually […]
GATHERINGS We have never liked speed dates much, elevator pitches make us anxious, the industry in Lucia comes to listen and often stays incognito. But this year we have an event dedicated only to podcasting professionals because independent producers often has to face difficult and lonely choices. Thus SANTINI: if you don’t know how to […]
LISTENING In the presence of the author and Lilith Primavera. Malafemmina is the story of a life-changing encounter between a French director and a trans artist, an unlikely friendship born and nurtured in the lively nights of East Rome. Chloé Barreau tells the story of Lilith Primavera, a contemporary diva who has crossed genders to […]
MASTERCLASS Un aspetto centrale del fare audio è l’ascolto. Per Nanna Hauge Kristensen l’ascolto implica un’attenzione corporea – una sintonia con l’altro – crea uno spazio di apertura e di scambio. Le sue opere audio ruotano spesso intorno alla perdita e a nuovi inizi e il suo lavoro si muove tra antropologia, documentarismo e arte. Nelle […]