//Unheard_Landscapes - listening | resonating | inhabiting 10th FKL/ENP/AAU_CRESSON International Symposium on Soundscape BLOIS | October 27 -30

Unheard landscapes: this metaphor leaves space to imagination, to the un-thought, to the un-known, to past and future, as well as unexplored sound scenarios. It also reaches the field of auditory perception, the acoustic domain. Sound, through auditive qualities, acoustic phenomena, design practices, artistic creations, and listening experiences, offers an inspiring transversal entry onto landscapes and ambiances. Beyond the discussions on “soundscape”, approaching ordinary environments through sounds increases the awareness of our own capacities to feel, while we inhabit and move across different worlds. From an ecological perspective, resonance appears a key word, too. It puts sound and space together. It implies the idea of a plurality of bodies, things and living beings vibrating all together, sharing common contexts of time and space. The act of listening bypasses the passive meaning it usually receives. It contains in itself a completely unexpressed potential, connoted with «project», «pro-action» and «active decision» by individuals. What will be the sounds of the future and the soundscapes in which we will live, or would like to? How can listening practices evolve, how will we listen or how differently could we listen to the world around us, tomorrow? Inhabiting the world brings to us questions about how we want to manage our being in it. How do we want to inhabit the world sonically? How sound and listening do actually affect our way to inhabit it? Have we lost some of our abilities to resonate with the world? What remains to be heard? Where could the practices of listening and attuning take us to?

JimmY G. GELLI | IT |

Installation

RADIOS APPEAR

Abstract

RADIOS APPEAR: Radios Landscape The project I propose to the commission, is titled Radios Appear Is a sound installation consisting of 200 radios Here, I shall briefly try and explain the way in which this community exists as a collective, as reality, and how the single units concur in giving life and form to this reality. Each radio is tuned on a different station, transmitting on local FM. Automatically, this means that, as a whole, the devices reproduce the entire sound produced by the FM band in real-time. Thus, we have the entire FM sound of a given geographical space simultaneously exposed. This sound mass - so heterogeneous - is modulated by setting the volume of each radio barely above the audible level. The sound of the installation acquires texture thanks to the number of subjects acting simultaneously: it is the criteria of the critical mass I have already expounded above. The low volume of the devices – almost muted – allows Radios Appear to build an ethereal and panoramic sound flux – very lyrical – not noisy as one could anticipate in the presence of a simultaneous exposure to such a quantity of sound frequencies. A sort of tapestry which explicitates itself with a distant, formless song, within which the figure/background principle completely disappears, losing all references, every necessity for assertiveness, every pretense at leading. Here, every attempt to make hierarchic elements, individualities, emerge is immediately reabsorbed within the multitude and the impersonal as the sum of all the personals.

Jimmy G. Gelli. Born in Firenze 15/11/1962 - Accademia delle Belle Arti Firenze - parallel musical training - Collaborator, producer, musician, label Burp Sonic Invention - Musician, Jelaosy Party, Discogirotto - Plagiarist Collettive Ready Made, Discogirotto - Sound designer for museum/ exhibition, “Napoli la città e il mare” Museo Archeologico Napoli Collaboration with BFA architecture - Acustic street environment research, Radios Appear, Psicogeografia Acustica - Producer radio plays, “Un certo titolo” L Sciascia- Festival Santarcangelo, “Le centuire” Manganelli- CdE, - collaboration with M. Conti, Lucia Amara - Radio Conductor , Controradio, Novaradio - Camera di Espansione sound installation, Museo Arte Contemporanea L Pecci Prato - Compositore per balletto, Balletto di Toscana, Kinkaleri, Cristina Rizzo - Diapo Collettive - Pattex project - Web riot Approach - Dj in Audiophobic Sound System, Supermood, Discogirotto Radios Bio - Zone Firenze 2014 - Facoltà di Lettere Università di Firenze 2018 - FKL Simposium 2018 Vigevano

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