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 […]
‘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 […]
LISTENING Winner of Premio LUCIA 2020 Diario di una fenice irrequietais an audio appendix to the diary Inchiostro, storia di un’adolescente oltre l’anoressia that Caterina Minni wrote when she was 14 years old. It is an attempt to talk about anorexia through some of the words Caterina wrote and that Francesca Berardi underlined, because that diary could […]
LIVE Winner of Premio LUCIA 2020 Un estremo atto d’amore is a radio play based on In nome del popolo italiano. Storia di una malavita, Claudio Foschini’s diary. The work draws inspiration from the many points of contact between Claudio’s life and Greek tragedy: it interweaves his life of crime, his moral conflicts between will […]