Genova Soundscape - Institut für Musikforschung

La Lanterna. Genova speculativa
Roberto Doati, Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini,
Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra
www.conservatoriopaganini.org
The School of Electronic Music
• It exists since 2005
• Bachelor Degree:
– History and Aesthetics of Electroacoustic
Music
– Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
– Electroacoustics
– Analysis of Electroacustic Music
– Electroacoustic Composition
– Videomusic Composition
– Digital Sound Processing
– Interactive Environments
– Live Electronics Techniques
The School of Electronic Music
• Master Degree:
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Psychophysics
Audio and Video Recording Techniques
Ideas and Models for Electroacoustic Music
Electroacoustic Composition and Improvisation Lab
Analysis, Description and Digital Sound Processing
Models
Techniques of Multimodal Composition
Techniques for Video Editing and Compositing
History and Analysis of the Multimodal Repertoire
Narrativity Ideas and Models
Multimodal and Interactive Environments Production Lab
Our partners
Centro Internazionale di Eccellenza Casa Paganini InfoMus Lab, University of Genova
Scientific collaborations
“Trio al rovescio. Un ambiente di composizione per diletto”
Scientific collaborations
For the 250th Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart birthday, an
interactive Musikalisches Würfelspiel to compose a 16 bars
valzer with excerpts from his String Quintets
Scientific collaborations
NIME 2008
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL
EXPRESSION
Genova, 4 – 7 giugno 2008
Casa Paganini – InfoMus Lab, Genova
DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova
In collaborazione con
Conservatorio di Musica «Niccolò Paganini»,
Scuola di Musica e Nuove Tecnologie
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce
Ufficio Paganini, Comune di Genova
Polo del Mediterraneo per l’Arte, la Musica e lo Spettacolo
Goethe-Institut Genua
GOG – Giovine Orchestra Genovese
Casa della Musica
Fondazione Spinola
Scientific collaborations
Meta-Morfologie Musicali, an environment for electroacoustic
composition (2007-2008) is a project for the scientific diffusion
supported by Italian Ministery of University and Research
Our partners
2006: “Trio al rovescio”
2007: “Meta-Morfologie Musicali “
2009: “Dialogo su due dimensioni”
2010: “Microfonie” and “Ritmi elettrici”
2012: “La voce e il suo doppio”
Our partners
Giovine Orchestra Genovese since 2009
The Italian oldest chamber music season
Our partners
Comune di Genova
Niccolò Paganini violin
competition
Call for electroacoustic music
composition with Hyperviolin
Our partners
Goethe Institut
2009: Diagonal Symphonie
2010: Der Klang des Südens
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa
Hörspiel für drei Sprecher von Nora Gomringer
• “La Lanterna“ is a part of a larger
project called Der Klang des Südens Eine Reise durch Töne, Worte, Musik
• It is a production by Genova Music
Conservatory and Goethe Institut
• Goethe Institut Genua is the Project
Leader.
Der Klang des Südens
• Roberta Canu, Director of Goethe Institut
Genua, who submitted the project to three
different cities hosting a Goethe-Institut within
the Exzellenzinitiative "Eine Reise in den
Süden" at the beginning of 2010
• “Der Klang des Südens” concerns the
realization of three Hörspiele based upon
original German texts and music by young
composers experienced in Electroacoustic
Music.
Der Klang des Südens
• The Project involves:
– Goethe Institut: Barcelona, Genova, Lisboa
– Music Institutions: ESMUC (B), Genova
Music Conservatory, MISO Music (L)
– Composers: Ariadna Alsina (B), Giacomo
Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi, Luca
Serra (students at the Scuola di Musica
Elettronica) Miguel Azguime (L)
– Writers: Judith Kuckart (B), Nora
Gomringer (G), Juli Zeh (L).
Der Klang des Südens
• The idea of the southern journey (Eine Reise in
den Süden) is a topic of the German
Romanticism
• In our project it has been developed starting from
the Soundscape of each of the three cities
involved in the project
• The suggestion for the production was the
Marinetti’s definition of radio: “Wireless
Imagination” (Manifesto Futurista La Radia,
1933)
• In fact, the journey we gave the chance to make
to the three writers was the one we arranged for
them through our Soundscapes.
Der Klang des Südens
• The soundscape was the only source of
inspiration to write the texts
• Then the texts were translated in Catalan, Italian
and Portuguese
• The voices of the actors, as well the
Soundscape, form the basis over which the
musical part of the Hörspiel is developed
• Therefore the sounds from the South reached
the North becoming text and then went back to
the South to turn again into sounds.
Der Klang des Südens
• Why Electroacoustic Music?
• Why the radio?
• The development of the Electroacoustic Music
language in Europe started within the radio:
– Groupe de Recherches musicales, Paris (1948)
– Westdeutschen Rundfunks, Koeln (1953)
– Studio di Fonologia Musicale della RAI di Milano (1955)
• Luciano Berio Thema, Omaggio a Joyce, Visage
• Bruno Maderna Dimensioni II, Satyricon, Ages
• Prix Italia: Radiodramma
• Very important is also the German avant-garde
experiences with the voice and the soundscape
– Sound poetry by Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, ...
– Walter Ruttmann Wochenende.
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa
• Genova (from the Latin word Janua Door), has
been in the centuries a door connecting Europe
with the different countries and cultures of the
Mediterranean basin
• Genova is located in the North-West of Italy and
is one of the major ports of the Mediterranean
Sea
• The City has the largest historical centre in
Europe (mainly medieval)
• Old Harbour was completely renovated during
the Columbian Celebrations, in 1992, by the
worldwide famous architect Renzo Piano.
Genova Landscape
Genova Landscape
Genova, Palazzi dei Rolli:
part of the UNESCO's World Heritage list
Genova celebrities
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Edoardo Sanguineti
(1930-2010)
Ligurian celebrities
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) with
Luciano Berio and Cathy
Berberian (1925-1983)
Genova Soundscape
• Genova Soundscape is mainly built on soundmarks,
i.e. sounds that are particularly regarded by our
community and its visitors
– the harbor
– the Genoese dialect (so close to Portuguese,
therefore misleading!)
– the so called crêuze (walking passages from the
mountains to the sea through the typical narrow
streets made by red bricks and cobblestones)
– the handicrafts (frequently encountered in town
and in the inland area)
Genova Soundscape
– the local cuisine (e.g. recording of the
preparation of the basil sauce, called pesto,
during the Genova World Context)
– the caruggi (the noble casbah of the largest
Historical Center in Europe)
– elevators and cable railways used to get
around the steep roads
– the trallalero (folk music made by male choirs)
– and finally the sea.
Genova Soundscape
• Although the predominance of the sea and its
trade, our region’s culture is more an Earth
culture, rather than a Sea culture
• It is clear if you consider our traditional cuisine,
mainly based on herbs and vegetables
Genova Soundscape
• This is why the La Lanterna Soundscape has
been composed from the many recorded
soundmarks according a trip comparable to the
one made by Genoese people in the ancient
times, from the mountains to the sea, from the
North to the South.
Genova Soundscape
Genova Soundscape
Genova Soundscape
Genova Soundscape
Genova Soundscape
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa
Genova Soundscape:
from the inland to the sea
by Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini, Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra
Public presentations
Lisboa June 16th 2011
Barcelona Sept. 22nd 2011
Genova Sept. 29th 2011
within and with the Villa
Croce Museum of
Contemporary Art
In fact the Museum
Director, Francesca
Serrati, organized a 3
months exhibition with
the three Hörspiele and
works from MACBA (B),
MNAC (L) and Villa
Croce concerning the
subjet of our project.
Genova public presentation
The three Hörspiele
have beeen diffused
at the opening over
three different
loudspeakers paths
in the park, mixing
the live and the
recorded
soundscapes
Genova public presentation
Then the “attentive”, radiophonic listening context was in three
different rooms within the Musem.
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa
Text by Nora Gomringer
Music by Giacomo Lepri, Irene Pacini,
Michele Pizzi, Luca Serra
• The text is about a man (Henry) and a younger woman
(Henny) who never meet each other within the Hörspiel
• The text alternates between letters/e-mail and Henny’s
reflections on Genova
• Henry is in New York, while Henny is in Genova
• She is a writer, loves Henry, but does not want to have
him aside as she fears to loose her inspiration
• The character of Henny is rendered with two actresses to
stress her double personality.
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa:
The Hoerspiel
Italian voices
Henny: Federica Toti and Marta Gerosa
Henry: Luca Criscuoli
Sie (she): Silvia Beillard
German voices
Henny: Ruth Heynen
Henry: Oliver El-Fayoumi
Sie (she): Tina El-Fayoumi
La Lanterna. Genua speculativa
The sound effects required by Nora Gomringer are
rendered using just the sounds from the
soundscape
e.g.: the sound of the typewriting at the beginning
is a mix of sounds from an old German mechanical
printing machine; for an airbrush through the hair
of a woman, the sound of the stick beating olive
trees is used
Listening La Lanterna
La Lanterna in another form
June 16 2012, at the
International Poetry
Festival in Genova Nora
Gomringer performed live
the Henny character with
recorded Italian voices and
8 tracks live spatialisation
of the Genova
soundscape.