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 […]