Roberto Doati, Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi ... · La Lanterna. Genua speculativa...

Roberto Doati, Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra

La Lanterna. Genova speculativa

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The School of Electronic Music

• It exists since 2005 • Bachelor Degree:

– History and Aesthetics of Electroacoustic Music

– Acoustics and Psychoacoustics – Electroacoustics – Analysis of Electroacustic Music – Electroacoustic Composition – Videomusic Composition – Digital Sound Processing – Interactive Environments – Live Electronics Techniques

The School of Electronic Music

• Master Degree: – Psychophysics – Audio and Video Recording Techniques – Ideas and Models for Electroacoustic Music – Electroacoustic Composition and Improvisation Lab – Analysis, Description and Digital Sound Processing

Models – Techniques of Multimodal Composition – Techniques for Video Editing and Compositing – History and Analysis of the Multimodal Repertoire – Narrativity Ideas and Models – Multimodal and Interactive Environments Production Lab

Our partners

Centro Internazionale di Eccellenza Casa Paganini - InfoMus Lab, University of Genova

Scientific collaborations

“Trio al rovescio. Un ambiente di composizione per diletto”


For the 250th Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart birthday, an interactive Musikalisches Würfelspiel to compose a 16 bars valzer with excerpts from his String Quintets

Scientific collaborations NIME 2008 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION Genova, 4 – 7 giugno 2008

Casa Paganini – InfoMus Lab, Genova DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova In collaborazione con Conservatorio di Musica «Niccolò Paganini», Scuola di Musica e Nuove Tecnologie Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce Ufficio Paganini, Comune di Genova Polo del Mediterraneo per l’Arte, la Musica e lo Spettacolo Goethe-Institut Genua GOG – Giovine Orchestra Genovese Casa della Musica Fondazione Spinola


Meta-Morfologie Musicali, an environment for electroacoustic composition (2007-2008) is a project for the scientific diffusion supported by Italian Ministery of University and Research

Our partners

2006: “Trio al rovescio” 2007: “Meta-Morfologie Musicali “

2009: “Dialogo su due dimensioni” 2010: “Microfonie” and “Ritmi elettrici”

2012: “La voce e il suo doppio”

Our partners

Giovine Orchestra Genovese since 2009 The Italian oldest chamber music season

Our partners

Comune di Genova Niccolò Paganini violin

competition

Call for electroacoustic music composition with Hyperviolin

Our partners

Goethe Institut 2009: Diagonal Symphonie

2010: Der Klang des Südens

La Lanterna. Genua speculativa

Hörspiel für drei Sprecher von Nora Gomringer

• “La Lanterna“ is a part of a larger project called Der Klang des Südens - Eine Reise durch Töne, Worte, Musik

• It is a production by Genova Music Conservatory and Goethe Institut

• Goethe Institut Genua is the Project Leader.

Der Klang des Südens

• Roberta Canu, Director of Goethe Institut Genua, who submitted the project to three different cities hosting a Goethe-Institut within the Exzellenzinitiative "Eine Reise in den Süden" at the beginning of 2010

• “Der Klang des Südens” concerns the

realization of three Hörspiele based upon original German texts and music by young composers experienced in Electroacoustic Music.

• The Project involves: – Goethe Institut: Barcelona, Genova, Lisboa – Music Institutions: ESMUC (B), Genova

Music Conservatory, MISO Music (L) – Composers: Ariadna Alsina (B), Giacomo

Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra (students at the Scuola di Musica Elettronica) Miguel Azguime (L)

– Writers: Judith Kuckart (B), Nora Gomringer (G), Juli Zeh (L).



• The idea of the southern journey (Eine Reise in den Süden) is a topic of the German Romanticism

• In our project it has been developed starting from the Soundscape of each of the three cities involved in the project

• The suggestion for the production was the Marinetti’s definition of radio: “Wireless Imagination” (Manifesto Futurista La Radia, 1933)

• In fact, the journey we gave the chance to make to the three writers was the one we arranged for them through our Soundscapes.


• The soundscape was the only source of inspiration to write the texts

• Then the texts were translated in Catalan, Italian and Portuguese

• The voices of the actors, as well the Soundscape, form the basis over which the musical part of the Hörspiel is developed

• Therefore the sounds from the South reached the North becoming text and then went back to the South to turn again into sounds.


• Why Electroacoustic Music? • Why the radio? • The development of the Electroacoustic Music

language in Europe started within the radio: – Groupe de Recherches musicales, Paris (1948) – Westdeutschen Rundfunks, Koeln (1953) – Studio di Fonologia Musicale della RAI di Milano (1955)

• Luciano Berio Thema, Omaggio a Joyce, Visage

• Bruno Maderna Dimensioni II, Satyricon, Ages • Prix Italia: Radiodramma

• Very important is also the German avant-garde experiences with the voice and the soundscape – Sound poetry by Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, ...

– Walter Ruttmann Wochenende.

• Genova (from the Latin word Janua Door), has been in the centuries a door connecting Europe with the different countries and cultures of the Mediterranean basin

• Genova is located in the North-West of Italy and is one of the major ports of the Mediterranean Sea

• The City has the largest historical centre in Europe (mainly medieval)

• Old Harbour was completely renovated during the Columbian Celebrations, in 1992, by the worldwide famous architect Renzo Piano.


Genova Landscape

Genova, Palazzi dei Rolli:

part of the UNESCO's World Heritage list

Genova celebrities

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010)

Ligurian celebrities

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) with Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian (1925-1983)

• Genova Soundscape is mainly built on soundmarks, i.e. sounds that are particularly regarded by our community and its visitors – the harbor

– the Genoese dialect (so close to Portuguese, therefore misleading!)

– the so called crêuze (walking passages from the mountains to the sea through the typical narrow streets made by red bricks and cobblestones)

– the handicrafts (frequently encountered in town and in the inland area)

Genova Soundscape

– the local cuisine (e.g. recording of the preparation of the basil sauce, called pesto, during the Genova World Context)

– the caruggi (the noble casbah of the largest Historical Center in Europe)

– elevators and cable railways used to get around the steep roads

– the trallalero (folk music made by male choirs)

– and finally the sea.

Genova Soundscape

• Although the predominance of the sea and its trade, our region’s culture is more an Earth culture, rather than a Sea culture

• It is clear if you consider our traditional cuisine, mainly based on herbs and vegetables

Genova Soundscape

• This is why the La Lanterna Soundscape has been composed from the many recorded soundmarks according a trip comparable to the one made by Genoese people in the ancient times, from the mountains to the sea, from the North to the South.

Genova Soundscape

Genova Soundscape

Genova Soundscape:

from the inland to the sea

by Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra


Lisboa June 16th 2011

Public presentations

Barcelona Sept. 22nd 2011

Genova Sept. 29th 2011 within and with the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art

In fact the Museum Director, Francesca Serrati, organized a 3 months exhibition with the three Hörspiele and works from MACBA (B), MNAC (L) and Villa Croce concerning the subjet of our project.

The three Hörspiele have beeen diffused at the opening over three different loudspeakers paths in the park, mixing the live and the recorded soundscapes

Genova public presentation

Then the “attentive”, radiophonic listening context was in three different rooms within the Musem.

Genova public presentation


Text by Nora Gomringer Music by Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini,

Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra

• The text is about a man (Henry) and a younger woman (Henny) who never meet each other within the Hörspiel

• The text alternates between letters/e-mail and Henny’s reflections on Genova • Henry is in New York, while Henny is in Genova • She is a writer, loves Henry, but does not want to have him aside as she fears to loose her inspiration • The character of Henny is rendered with two actresses to stress her double personality.

Italian voices

Henny: Federica Toti and Marta Gerosa Henry: Luca Criscuoli Sie (she): Silvia Beillard

La Lanterna. Genua speculativa:

The Hoerspiel

German voices

Henny: Ruth Heynen Henry: Oliver El-Fayoumi Sie (she): Tina El-Fayoumi


The sound effects required by Nora Gomringer are rendered using just the sounds from the soundscape e.g.: the sound of the typewriting at the beginning is a mix of sounds from an old German mechanical printing machine; for an airbrush through the hair of a woman, the sound of the stick beating olive trees is used

Listening La Lanterna

La Lanterna in another form

June 16 2012, at the International Poetry Festival in Genova Nora Gomringer performed live the Henny character with recorded Italian voices and 8 tracks live spatialisation of the Genova soundscape.

Roberto Doati, Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi ... · La Lanterna. Genua speculativa...

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