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THROUGH/BEYOND Bari, Italy 2021

Artistic residency, research on the connection between presence, absence, transparency, light, invisible, structure. The research has lead to the realization of a video performance based on sound/space/light/space.











I GIORNI DELLO STUPORE Bari, Italy 2020

Electroacoustic, field recordings, voice, clarinet, piano, guitar, sounds collage, spoken words, poetry, visual art. “I giorni dello stupore” is an opera of 60 soundtracks, recorded per 60 days during national italian lock down, in distant relation with two other musicians. It’s an experiment of sincronicity, each soundtrack is based on improvisation, and contains home’s and countryside’s sonorities.

 

                         Lockdown 2020, I giorni dello stupore, Valle D'Itria. Pic by Marialuisa Capurso



  

INTO YOUR MOUTH_TRA BOCCA E VOCE  Bari , Italy 2019

Video art, sound, poetry, performance

 

Into your mouth_Tra bocca e voce, Foresta Mercadante Cassano, 2018. Pic by Iula Marzulli.

 


 


BOITES DE REVES Bari, Italy 2018

Compositions, improvisation, visual art.

Composition of songs based on a research of the oniric world, on the meaning of dreams. Improvisation connected to the subconscious world of dreams.


                     Photoshooting with H., M.,Y. . Boîtes de Rêves, 2018. Pic by Marialuisa Capurso

 

 


38HZ Palo del Colle, Italy 2017

Performance, electroacoustic music, voice, movement . Artist in residence, research on 38 Hz frequencies, relation between sound and perception of it in the body. Investigating the relation with emotions, working with local people, and at the same time building a performance based on 38 Hz frequencies.


 
38 Hz Performance, Rigenera Palo del Colle, 2017. Pic by Tania Tullo



 

FOCARE Cilento, Italy 2017

Artist in residence, work of reconnection with Fire’s tradition in a little village on the mountains called Villa Littorio. Music, workshops, talks with the local people and contact activities in the nature. Performance and parade in the last day of residency.

                              Focare Festival, Villa Littorio 2017. Pic by Elizabeth De Bezenac


 

 

BLOOMING Stockolm, Sweden 2015

Artist in residence at EMS in Stockolm. Residency in Stockolm for one month in a studio of electroacoustic music. Work on the opera “Blooming”, about the transformation of moaning, into the blooming of present.


                        

                                 EMS Studio Stockholm 2015, Blooming Recording. 



Ihlm Park , Pic by Marialuisa Capurso


 



TEMPO AL TEMPO Bruxelles, 2018

Artist in residence/Festival in Molenbeek, performance in the neighborhood, relation and connection with migrant area, working on the inclusivity and power of improv music in the city.


 
Tempo al Tempo Festival, Bruxelles 2018. Pic by Patrizia Lugo.





CAMERA SONORA Berlin/Aalborg/Bari/Montorio al Vomano/Avellino 2015,2016,2017,2018. 

Durational performance of a minimum of 3 days to 10 days. Performing and embodying sound, space, environment.The research of Camera Sonora has several directions, from impermanence to memory, to the meaning of home.


                            Camera Sonora performance in Aalborg, 2017.  Pic by Laura Tota

 



 

URBAN TABLEAU – Bari, Italy 2012

Field recordings and graphic score for improvisers

“Urban Tableau” is an opera focused on the dialog and negotiation between urban soundscape and selfscape. By recording a dense body of urban noises, the meaning of them moves to another level (ready-made concept), and integrates itself into rarefazione of  the intimate dimension. It represents the rhythm of life, inside and outside relation.

 

                 

Urban Tableau Score, realized by Nicoletta Scillimati, idea of Marialuisa Capurso



RURAL TABLEAU – Vouzela, Portugal  Artist Residency 2016

Site-specific : Field recordings, video performance, graphic score, publication in the book “Tales of Sonic Displacement”

“Rural Tableau: the lived, the perceived, the present” is an process of field recordings, interviews, walking in the rural landscape, video art, performance, lectures in the public school of Vouzela.

The opera is an investigation on rhythm analysys of the rural landscape connected to self awareness



                           Residency "Binaural Nodar, Vouzela 2016. Pic by Manuela Barile