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Sound Vibes

Curated by Valérie Hasson-Benillouche & Valentina Peri

The history of the arts that mobilize sound technologies constitutes a large if rarely acknowledged portion of the history of the media arts. Since Luigi Russolo’s manifesto, "The Art of noises", a celebration of the rich scope of sounds that exist in the world, the artistic avant-garde has embraced sound as a fundamental tool for experimentation. From the futurist "Intonarumori" all the way through the situationists actions, Fluxus happenings and John Cage’s seminal work, sound and listening practices have been and continue to be transformed through the cultural manipulation of technology, both analogical and digital.

The exhibition "Sound Vibes" highlights a selection of artworks dealing with physical and material features of sound that suggest uncharted trajectories between aurality and vision.

The artworks in the show explore different soundscapes in which visitors are invited to dive through sight and hearing, in their unpredictable connections with form (Adam Basanta); frequencies (Roberto Pugliese); the body (Jacopo Baboni Schilingi); wind (Peter Beyls); water (Adam Basanta); the voice (Katharina Zimmerhackl); human noises (Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer). New forms of notation are also confronted: sound and image are therefore combined to create a meta-language through graphic signs. If Roberto Pugliese rearrange historical experiments in the representation of music, Katharina Zimmerhackl’s score is based on the mechanical recordings of the bouts and tremors of hysterical bodies.

The exhibition tries to reframe sound not only as a material subject to experimentation as acoustic data, but also as a space and place for the body and the senses, and as an object of culture and human agency.

Valentina Peri, 2019

Almost not even there at all

by Adam Basanta

Urethane resin, audio cables, metal
90 x 50 x 40 cm
2017

Treasures


by Adam Basanta
Aquarium, cassette tape, rocks, speaker cones, pump, bio-filter, aquatic plants, local found plants.
Variable dimension
2019

Treasures

by Adam Basanta

Aquarium, cassette tape, rocks, speaker cones, pump, bio-filter, aquatic plants, local found plants
Variable dimension
2019

Treasures

by Adam Basanta

Aquarium, cassette tape, rocks, speaker cones, pump, bio-filter, aquatic plants, local found plants.
Variable dimension
2019

Poetic Equations #2

by Katharina Zimmerhackl

Stage setting (various materials), vocal score, 12’’ vinyl, record player
2017

Poetic Equations #2

by Katharina Zimmerhackl

Stage setting (various materials), vocal score, 12’’ vinyl, record player
2017

Poetic Equations #2

by Katharina Zimmerhackl

Stage setting (various materials), vocal score, 12’’ vinyl, record player
2017

Score n.1


by Roberto Pugliese
Digital print on plexiglas, metal wire, iron, aluminium
140 x 50 x 16 cm
2016
Courtesy Studio la Città - Verona

Possibile riflessione

by Roberto Pugliese

Sculpture (speaker, cables, metals, audio system, audio composition)
70 x 70 x 30 cm
2018

Possibile Riflessione

by Roberto Pugliese

2018

Magic Eye-Dissolving Borders

by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer

Interactive sound work
Vintage radio and electronics
2010

Argo

by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi

Generative and interactive musical composition, unlimited duration
2018

Windchime

by Peter Beyls

Real-time web-driven audiovisual installation
2006-2017

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019

Sound Vibes exhibition view


2019