3 PLACES WHERE I CAN SING: SONGS FOR VALPARAÍSO
Performance in the public space, 2016
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Performed at Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro 2016, Valparaíso (Chile)
in frame of the Artistic Residency Tsonami Festival, 10 November-10 December 2016
Documentation exhibited at: Errant Sound Berlin (DE) "In The Sound Field - perspectives on field recordings"
Group Exhibition 22-25 May 2017
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Performed at Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro 2016, Valparaíso (Chile)
in frame of the Artistic Residency Tsonami Festival, 10 November-10 December 2016
Documentation exhibited at: Errant Sound Berlin (DE) "In The Sound Field - perspectives on field recordings"
Group Exhibition 22-25 May 2017
The project investigates the sonic memory of the inhabitants of Valparaíso, who I interviewed about songs related to the city.
From the recording of this process, I create a sound composition and I intervene in various places of the city specifically selected for their symbolic connotation, also using my voice.
The performance aims to generate a new and bizarre oral history of the present, connecting the collective sonic memory of the inhabitants and my voice to the public space of the city.
Kindly supported by the Goethe Institut Munich
Special thanks to Peter Cusack and Wendelin Büchler
During my residency, the songs I've collected were two: La Joya del Pacífico and Valparaíso. Everybody in Valparaíso knows these two songs. Like a real and petulant anthem, these songs express a strong sense of belonging and love for the city. Furthermore, I recorded the sound of howling stray dogs, as a constant soundscape of Valparaíso. The sound composition I performed in the public space included the recorded voices of Valparaíso's inhabitants singing the same songs, and the recording of stray dogs. It sounded to me like a new "Frankenstein" creature: shy voices, out of tune, pleasant, strident, drunk, girly, sensual voices melted with the reality around. Multiple voices, diverse voices, singing in a broken and disorganized choir, wild but sweet, like Valparaíso.
I selected 3 places where to sing and perform, which for me clearly represented the power in different forms:
Plaza Sotomayor / Palace de Justicia (Sotomayor Square/Palace of Justice), impressive and majestic place where once there was the sea. Now there's a huge square where is located the palace of "Armada de Chile" ("Chilean Navy").
Galeria Beye "Caracol", a commercial center in a typical 80's Chilean architecture, it was built during the Pinochet era, now in decline, it is a melancholic place.
Congreso Nacional (National Parliament), a huge building located between a church strongly damaged by an earthquake, and a big shopping mall under construction. Congreso Nacional reminds me of a fascist building in my hometown Taranto, built in the shape of "M" for Mussolini.
Photo Credits: Nelson Campos, Jeymer Gamboa, Wendelin Büchler
Kindly supported by the Goethe Institut Munich
Special thanks to Peter Cusack and Wendelin Büchler
During my residency, the songs I've collected were two: La Joya del Pacífico and Valparaíso. Everybody in Valparaíso knows these two songs. Like a real and petulant anthem, these songs express a strong sense of belonging and love for the city. Furthermore, I recorded the sound of howling stray dogs, as a constant soundscape of Valparaíso. The sound composition I performed in the public space included the recorded voices of Valparaíso's inhabitants singing the same songs, and the recording of stray dogs. It sounded to me like a new "Frankenstein" creature: shy voices, out of tune, pleasant, strident, drunk, girly, sensual voices melted with the reality around. Multiple voices, diverse voices, singing in a broken and disorganized choir, wild but sweet, like Valparaíso.
I selected 3 places where to sing and perform, which for me clearly represented the power in different forms:
Plaza Sotomayor / Palace de Justicia (Sotomayor Square/Palace of Justice), impressive and majestic place where once there was the sea. Now there's a huge square where is located the palace of "Armada de Chile" ("Chilean Navy").
Galeria Beye "Caracol", a commercial center in a typical 80's Chilean architecture, it was built during the Pinochet era, now in decline, it is a melancholic place.
Congreso Nacional (National Parliament), a huge building located between a church strongly damaged by an earthquake, and a big shopping mall under construction. Congreso Nacional reminds me of a fascist building in my hometown Taranto, built in the shape of "M" for Mussolini.
Photo Credits: Nelson Campos, Jeymer Gamboa, Wendelin Büchler