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Listening Through. Trespassing the many elsewheres of the body

Digicult continues its media partnership with INBTWN, the programme curated by Claudia D’Alonzo for XL, the extended format of Centrale Fies’ annual programming. The second artistic intervention is Listening Through, a project moving between on- and off-line based on the dialogue of curator and researcher Elena Biserna with artist and researcher Anna Raimondo... READ MORE...

“Hum”: the radical forms of collective and sonic agency

For her upcoming solo exhibition at Portikus, Hajra Waheed realises an indoor, site-specific iteration of "Hum" (2020), a large-scale multi-channel musical composition and sound installation that employs the ubiquitous yet overlooked medium of humming as a means to explore radical forms of collective and sonic agency.... READ MORE...

The second chapter of INBTWN “In Between” – A programme curated by Claudia D’Alonzo

XL was and will be the new format of Centrale Fies, originally conceived for the 40th anniversary of Drodesera and the 20th of Fies. Today it finds a new correlation in the analysis of an "oversize" that breaks the summer one shot , weaving together all the annual events of Centrale Fies.... READ MORE...

In “SOUNDMUSEUM” visitors become active performers, thanks to sound and multi-sensory experiences

The exhibition features 22 works across multifaceted categories, from sound installation, audience-driven performance, interactive sound installation, light art to visual music by 13 internationally recognized artists and collectives.... READ MORE...

The Fridman Gallery’s first online-only exhibition “All at Once”

Fridman Gallery is honored to welcome Regine Basha’s curatorial exploration "All at Once", an exhibition featuring images, sound, video, and performance. The gallery’s first online-only exhibition comes on the unusual occasion of new social distancing practices amidst a global pandemic.... READ MORE...

Virtual walk through Cerith Wyn Evans’ light installations

Thanks to the 360° Street Views on the Google Arts & Culture platform, you can take a virtual walk through the light installations created by Cerith Wyn Evans.... READ MORE...

Heroarky’s new tracks to fight self-isolation

"Amid fear and panic spreading, we are also discovering how fast we can actually respond to a global threat if we are willing to do so."... READ MORE...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... READ MORE...

Mark Garry’s multidimensional approach: the exhibition “Songs and the Soil”

The exhibition is comprised of a series of installations and individual works under the combined title "Songs and the Soil" and it engages with the related subjects of landscape and music/sound, looking at each element from historical, social and cultural perspectives.... READ MORE...

La nuova Sonosfera, un teatro unico al mondo per l’ascolto tridimensionale di ecosistemi e di musica

Il 6 gennaio 2020 è stato inaugurato il primo teatro eco-acustico d’Italia, presso Palazzo Mosca sede dei Musei Civici a Pesaro, Città Creativa Unesco della Musica.... READ MORE...

Carl Craig in “Party/After-Party”: the intersection between techno and Minimalist sound

Dia Art Foundation has commissioned acclaimed techno DJ and producer Carl Craig to create a sound installation at Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York, in dialogue with the unique architecture of the space. To mark the opening of Carl Craig’s new commission "Party/After-Party",  Dia presents a live performance by Craig and Moritz von Oswald within the installation space.... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... READ MORE...

Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem

How does the algorithm interpret our irrational demeanors? Is it able to simulate our emotions and to learn the characteristics that are typical of human personality? Lorem with the project Adversarial Feelings analyses the interaction between human and machine with different expressive media: musical, textual and audiovisual. Interview by Teresa Ruffino.... READ MORE...

La vibrazione primaria delle piante. Plants Dub: un progetto di musica vegetale

Ricerche scientifiche recenti dimostrano ampiamente che le piante emettono suoni e frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Plants Dub ha pensato di lavorare sull’intelligenza comunicativa delle piante e hanno scoperto che, spesso, essa si svolge per via di uno scambio di segnali elettrochimici, trasformati dal duo in suono.... READ MORE...

“Objects and Sounds”. Le immagini come tentativo di rappresentare i suoni stessi

Nel cuore del quartiere San Lorenzo di Roma, si trova il Pastificio Cerere che costituisce un importante spazio di sperimentazione per la capitale. Negli anni Settanta il Pastifico Cerere è stato trasformato da spazio industriale – fabbrica di farina e di pane che riforniva la capitale – a luogo deputato all’arte con un unico obiettivo: condividere l’ideologia del fare e dell’operare come terreno culturale nel quale discutere e incontrarsi ogni giorno. Report di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Sound Art?

The Fundació Joan Miró presents "Sound Art?", an exhibition which reassesses the notion of sound in art and considers the possibility of this category. The show, sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, is set up as a journey tracing the imprint of the sound element in twentieth-century visual arts and led by curator Arnau Horta.... READ MORE...

Digital mistakes and 3D lies. Interview with Karol Sudolski

Teresa Ruffino interviews Karol Sudolski, a young creative currently based in Milan. Together they talk about his introduction to the world of video before, and music after, both happened by accident and about the representation through a visual form of his thoughts in what he defines as the landscape of paranoia.... READ MORE...