IN SHORT ⟶ Xing – a cultural entity in Bologna that projects and organises – has created a series that collects artists’ records, tracing a geography in which the field of sound and performance are linked. From 7 to 12 September in ST24’s Acoustic Room, the audience will be able to listen to a different one every day.
Xong collection – dischi d’artista is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. “The space of the record” is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of “Music-Non-Music” to actualize both the artists and listeners imagination.
Xing is a cultural organization based in Bologna that conceives, develops and curates projects, events and editorial productions characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture, with particular attention to generational tendencies and new languages.
- Saturday September 7 | 6:00 pm
Giampiero Cane/Daniela Cattivelli
XX03 Postfantamusicologia (2022)
Postfantamusicologia is a sound creation based on the texts and voice of Giampiero Cane performed by himself and manipulated by the composer Daniela Cattivelli, who electronically projected them into a chaotic flow. It is accompanied by a remix in which his counterfeit voice is camouflaged among synthetic fanfares and doppler effects, as in the encryption of SIGSALY, the secure-voice-system used in the Second World War for higher-level communications. The record is a special edition dedicated to the eccentric figure of Cane: musicologist, professor, journalist, writer and sportsman, who likes to be in the wrong. Realizing the impossibility of that (he should blame those who agree with him and so on), given that individually he cannot find a solution, he has provisionally solved the problem by participating in the minority.
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- Sunday September 8 | 6:00 pm
Luciano Maggiore
XX05 Very cheap non-human animal imitations (2022)
Very cheap non-human animal imitations amicably mimics the wonderful presentations of songs from birds and other protagonists of the animal world, made available by the ornithologist and publisher Jean-Claude Roche in the 1980s. “The recordings were made in 2021 on the sofa at home, with an old tape recorder. Without trying to refine a vocal technique, I relied on the perceived timbral closeness I had with some of the non-human animals that I imitated. I hope that soon, as the world moves in an anti-speciesist direction, the naïvety of this work will become an outrageous homage to a different present.”
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- Tuesday September 10 | 7:00 pm
Margherita Morgantin/Ilaria Lemmo/Beatrice Goldoni
XX06 COSMIC SILENCE 5, fluorescence 4 (2022)
COSMIC SILENCE 5, fluorescence 4 was created from the dialogue of the visual artist Margherita Morgantin with two musicians and sound makers, within her research project VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle (2020-21). On one side the record hosts the translation into sound spectra of a series of data from the VIP experiment in progress in the LNGS Gran Sasso Nuclear Physics Laboratories, processed by the electronic music composer Ilaria Lemmo: the sounds constantly oscillate between origin and destination in an environment of pure suspension. On the other side, it presents a road-noise-recording spawned from the artist’s solitary journey from Milan to Porto by car, elaborated together with Beatrice Goldoni. The titles of this double composition are inspired by two sources: Cosmic Silence refers to the experiments in the scientific field with the aim of deepening the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the biological response to environmental radiation. Fluorescence alludes to the physical phenomenon of re-emission of the radiation received, which can be intercepted in the visible range in the dark.
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- Wednesday September 11 | 6:00 pm
Canedicoda/Renato Grieco
XX07 Ehm (2023)
Ehm bypasses the problem of articulation and meaning. Canedicoda and Renato Grieco, both also known under other artistic guises (Ottaven and kNN), are the sound forgers who have combined these spaces of presence and present in a paralyzed intersperse. A composition in the making, sensitive, which almost builds itself. Backgrounds of the environment, silence and noise ferment in a flow of micro-dynamics, moments of intangibility and turning nodes. Ehm is concrete music and tactility of hearing: powder sound. In that sleep cycle where the dream occurs only to be forgotten. In search of a non-narrative, Canedicoda and Renato Grieco propose stasis as will. A two-part suite, whose titlesspeak for themselves: A): “It is possible that the focus falls on an impalpable matter. I address the body of the volume, as if it could take and not take place at the same time. They are not hairs but teams.”, and B) “Readily exposed to the cold and folded in three moments. A space, a sharp pain shrowded in the air: contact generates rustles. The sound of nothingness, the name we would like to give to void for a moment, rising beard.”
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- Thursday September 12 | 7:00 pm
Muna Mussie/Massimo Carozzi
XX12 Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ (2023)
Cieca Oblio ኩርቫዕውርምርሳዕ was born out of the collaboration between two artists whose paths have intertwined many times over the course of twenty years. The work of Muna Mussie, who investigates the languages of the visual and performing arts, for this creation on record extends and enters into a fusional dialogue with the rigorous and prismatic sound vision of Massimo Carozzi, also an explorer of the relationships between different languages. In Curva Cieca Oblio the material questions the spirit to bring different collective and personal oblivion to light and deconstruct macro narratives. Mussie’s research escapes the literality of meaning, and textile art and embroidery are some of the techniques used by the artist to highlight the visible, the invisible and the tactile.
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presented at Short Theatre 2024 within Eco:frequenze funded by Next Generation EU
ph. Marco Mazzoni
