ASCOLTO Premio Lucia 2024 Winner : ProjectsPREMIEREat the presence of the author How many stories can a musical instrument tell? Theremin, a secret history is a headlong rush of sound and words, a narrative journey to discover the dawn and sunset of one of the first electronic instruments. It is an unusual choral fresco that […]
TALK and LISTENINGS THIS SESSION IS IN ITALIAN ONLY This year, Lucia’s usual focus on the history of radio in Italy, turns its ears to two seminal reportage-pieces. Accompanied by Marta Perrotta and Rodolfo Sacchettini, we will listen to Amerigo Gomez and Victor De Santis’s incredible 1944 account of the battle for the liberation of Florence in its […]
LISTENING Dr Evgen Bavčar has a special ritual. For over forty years, he has been recording the nightingale singing on May nights in his hometown of Lokavec near Ajdovščina. Under the nocturnal cloak, in duet and in collaboration with the nightingale, the story from Lokavec unfolds into a narrative of the nightingales’ blinding so they […]
A documentary produced within the context of YASS! mentorship propgram. Mentor: Yasmina HamlawiWORLD PREMIERE A creative audio documentary exploring questions of voice and listening from scientific, artistic, philosophical and political perspectives. Who – and what – do we deem capable of having a voice, and worthy of being listened to? And how does the way […]
A reflection on the evolution of audio production from the craftsmanship of the ‘radio revolution’ between art and imagination to the standardisation derived from the industrial mass production of content for listening.
LISTENING A piece produced within the context of YASS! mentorship programMentor: Cristal DuhaimeWORLD PREMIERE When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing. This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s […]
LISTENING In the presence of the author. A Fantasy, A Lie is the story of Jaione, a Basque woman who joined the Basque separatist movement ETA at the age of 18 but ended up in prison in Spain 40 years later. This audio documentary is not about guilt or innocence. No, this story is about […]
LISTENING PREMIERE in collaboration with Rai Play Soundat the presence of the author In the 1950s, a New York radio station created La grande famiglia – The big family, a programme for Italian-Americans sponsored by a tomato company. The mechanism is simple, but ingenious: in a world without telephones, anyone, in exchange for ten labels […]
AUDIONOVEL and FILM Projection introduced by ALMARE in dialogue with Rodolfo Sacchettini The film consists of a single voice narration over a sequence of dark backgrounds with Italian and English subtitles. Backgrounds and titles are entirely shot from movable type prints. No other image is present in the film.The screenplay is written in a language […]
YASS! Lab Chiara Claudi Dec 12-13, 2024IN ITALIAN ONLYLength: 11 hours HOURSThu 12th > 10am-1pm – 2pm-6pmFri 13th > 10am-2pm WHEREVilla RomanaVia Senese 68, 50124 Firenze How many times have you listened to something and thought that the voice ‘sounded strange’? How many times have you had the feeling that something was out of place? And […]