Andrea Liberovici
RAI
Starting from a thought by J. Cage on the new modalities and methods of composing,
I start thinking that composing music in this ending century holds the principal
characteristics of painting and photography of this century. We fix on analogical,
digital burlaps (losing therefore one prerogative that is the possibility of
other executions in the future by the interpreter), in order to gain the fixity
from the painting, and the fixity of a movement from the photography. In order
to maintain this simile, the sound becomes colour, natural or synthetic (in
accordance with the source) and the instruments of electronic music are powerful
paintbrushes. The sound, which is written for the sound, becomes of fact the
protagonist, with a sound, and crossing the reasons of a sound. Saying that,
I have begun to work on some paintings with sophisticated and much rare software,
in my study of recording. That is, I use the voice (therefore the image, therefore
the fundamental colour) for example, Marinetti's voice, and I construct
exactly the portrait through the sonorous phantom, the stamp and the rhythm
of its declaim. This way has suggested to me the idea of a gallery of portraits,
to choose among poets, oratories, actors, and politicians; for analogy or contrast
with the argument of the transmission. Some of them released me purposely their
voice, others have been founded out with the aid of my personal bookcase.
Acoustic Portrait will be broadcasted (by RAI III) beginning from Saturday morning,
1 November 97, for fourteen days, in the course of a new cycle of the program
"Notes of flight", which is dedicated to the virtues. It is my intention
to prepare a true and own exhibition in a gallery of modern art (the first successful
preparation has been in Athens for the cycle "Art Athina '98"), where
have being exposed these Acoustic Portrait. Some picks up (C.D. players or Dat
with headphones for to everyone), which contain the recording of the portrait,
will be installed to the walls. A nameplate with the author's name will
be applied to every pick up. At the moment the realized figures are fifteen,
some living others not. Thery are Sanguineti, Albertazzi, Ghezzi, and then Artaud,
Marinetti, Pound and so on, the intention is to arrive to an exhibition with
a maximum of 21 portraits like the XXI century that is coming to the end.
Acoustic Portrait has already been exposed in "Art Athina" Atene-1998; "J. Cage reading" New York-1998; "National Gallery of Modern Art" cured from Achille Bonito Olive - Rome, 1999.
The portrayed personages are:
Antonin Artaud
Edgard Varese-Frank Zappa
Luigi Nono
Giorgio Albertazzi
John Cage
Luigi Romano
Judith Malina
Edoardo Sanguineti
Achille Bonito Oliva
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti