INCONTRO On his podcast, The Best Advice Show, Zak Rosen gathers insights about confronting, subverting and overcoming creative crises. In this interactive session, he’ll share morsels from his archive and help festival attendees work through their current creative conundrums. Zak Rosen is a storymaker from Detroit currently living in Amsterdam. He’s the host of The […]
INCONTRO 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. What if we went back to study the Bauhaus, which a hundred years ago asked how to generate value when producing objects? […]
ASCOLTO Premio Lucia 2024 Winner : ProjectsPREMIEREat the presence of the author winner Premio Lucia 24 PROJECTS 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 […]
FILM and AUDIO-NOVEL Event introduced by ALMARE in dialogue with Rodolfo Sacchettini The plot Set in a fictional society, Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. is an audio-diary that follows the adventures of researcher Dorothea as she extracts (and resells) sounds from the past. Thanks to a technology called ECHO, it is possible to analyse the sound waves that […]
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 […]
‘They wished me a great long life,’ says Giovanni Farina. Until 31 December 9999. Giovanni Farina was a lifer.
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 […]
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 […]
LISTENING Italian premiere 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 […]
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 […]