Sound – space / music composed for side specific locations
1/ Concerto per natura morta I., Roberto Pugliese, 2014 40’19“
1/ Concerto per natura morta II, Roberto Pugliese, 2014 19’39“
Concerto per natura morta:
Trunks, iron, speakers, audio cables, multi-channel audio system, audio composition.
In a room there are thirteen chestnut trunks suspended in horizontal position in the air at different heights. The trunks come from dead trees and they were emptied by a machine designed for that purpose. Within each trunk there is positioned a speaker. In this way the sound is amplified and modified by the volume and shape of the trunk itself. The sounds reproduced by the installation, come from the places where the trunks were taken, and from recordings made during their emptying. These sounds have been later processed in a digital way using softwares designed for this purpose and then compositionally assembled. In this way the user is immersed in a “still life” where the presence of the sound aspect combined with the imposing and impressive visual texture, give the work a great emotional and engaging impact.
Roberto Pugliese:
Born in Naples, Italy, 1982. Lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Possessor of a Master degree in electronic music at the Conservatoire in Naples with M° Agostino di Scipio, the artist divides his time between teaching at the Conservatoire di Bari (musical systems, electroacoustic- and informatics laboratory and Sound art), playing music and realizing sound installations. His research derives its energy from two artistic currents, that of sound art and of kinetic and programmed art. Using mechanical tools controlled by software that interact with each other, with the environment and the observer, he aims to examine new areas of research in sound phenomena, to analyze the processes that the human psyche uses to differentiate structures of natural origin from artificial ones, to discover the relationship between man and technology and the relationship between art and technology. The sound thus becomes the object of research as well as a means of acoustic and visual expression.