E Canterà - Sound Performance
“E canterà”, a phrase that means “and it will sing” in Italian, is a sound performance that revisits the repertoire of northern Italian mountain songs, focusing on their extinction in the panorama of Italian cultural and social heritage.
The sweet selection of songs, sung by the choir “Le Rocce Roche” and recorded by the artist in the church of the Centro Paolo VI in Brescia, meets the decay and instability of the old magnetic tape in cassette format. With the help of the cassette recorder and 4 different loudspeakers, the artist reworks the repertoire using the “phasing” technique, i.e. he plays back the same song for each loudspeaker, making sure that they are not synchronized in time with each other.
The new sounds that emerge emphasize the importance and expressive power of the voice in this repertoire, an essential and irreplaceable instrument. The drama of the words combined with the textures created by the tapes reinforce the phenomenon of extinction and memory.
The audience is invited to move around the space, experimenting with different listening points and thus taking on the role of active explorers of the new harmonic and sonic interweavings that the artist creates in real time.