Author: _FV

  • Unfolding | Clusters premiers at UCLA Art | Sci Center

    Unfolding | Clusters premiers at UCLA Art | Sci Center

    Unfolding | Clusters: a music and visual media model of ALS pathophysiology at UCLA Art | Sci Center

    Federico Visi, Giovanni Dothel, Duncan Williams

    June 3rd, 5pm, UCLA Art | Sci Center, CNSI building, Room 5419  Info: (+1) 3102661557

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases, it is characterized by progressive degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons of the spinal cord.

    This interdisciplinary project presents a way of employing music and immersive media in order to illustrate the biomolecular processes behind the progress of ALS and thus help raise awareness in the greater public.

    This work is an international collaboration between the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Italy, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, Plymouth University, UK.

    Supported by the Santander Postgraduate Internationalisation Scholarship.

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) – Plymouth University – http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk

    UCLA Art | Sci Center – http://artsci.ucla.edu

  • CrAcK – Italy

    CrAcK – Italy

    I’m co-leading CrAcK, a one-month exchange project with the Middle East organized by In_Ocula, a contemporary theatre company based in Faenza.

    The project started on the 15th September when two artists from Beirut (Rabee Kiwan, painter and Ayman Nahle, video maker) arrived in Faenza to work with us on a live multimedia performance.

    My role in it is to design the sound of the performance and to find ways of interaction across the different media involved.

    This Saturday, 5th October, the results of the first three weeks of work will debut at MIC –  Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza with two shows, at 19.00 and 20.00.

    Following that, In_Ocula will hold workshops for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and perform CrAcK once again there.

    Check CrAcK’s FB page

    CrAcK italy front web

  • Live guitar set @ CHORDOPHONICA

    Live guitar set @ CHORDOPHONICA

    I’ll be playing at Moog in Ravenna on Sunday 22/9/2013 for CHORDOPHONICA, a night dedicated to experimental guitar playing.

    I will share the stage with two friends, Sharif Sehnaoui (pictured) and Luca Baldini.

    See you there!

    chordophonica WEB

  • Live @ WAM! Festival

    Live @ WAM! Festival

    This weekend I’m going to present a new live set at WAM! Festival. My gig will be on Sunday night, h 23.

    I’ll be there also with in_Ocula for Mind Bombing. Check out the program!

     

     

  • Sense/Stage workshop @ STEIM

    Sense/Stage workshop @ STEIM

    This weekend I’ll be attending the Wireless sensing for music, environments, and performance with Sense/Stage workshop at STEIM in Amsterdam.

    Sense/Stage is a low cost, open source wireless sensor infrastructure for live performance and interactive, real-time environments.

    STEIM is the STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, an independent electronic music center unique in its dedication to live performance. The foundation’s artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers, musicians, and visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work.

  • Pictures from Ricordo Isocrono

    Pictures from Ricordo Isocrono

    Here are some photos from “Ricordo Isocrono” my performance at Festival Frattale 2013.

    Ph: © Andrea Piffari (thanks!)

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    Here some press cuts about the festival:

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  • Ricordo Isocrono @ Festival Frattale

    Ricordo Isocrono @ Festival Frattale

    “Ricordo Isocrono” è una performance musicale e visiva pensata appositamente per uno degli spazi di Festival Frattale.

    Un set di musica elettroacustica si intreccia ad immagini di un recente passato che trovano una nuova isocronia con l’atto performativo, nel qui e ora.
    Le componenti visive, sonore e spaziali si sovrappongono, sostenute da una tela di rimandi narrativi e gestuali.

    Mercoledì 29/5/2013. Ravenna, Vicolo Violino 20.

    Inizio ore 20.30. Evento Facebook

    Posti limitati, consigliata prenotazione.

    Info e prenotazioni:
    Cell. 33 18 18 36 36
    lacrisalidedaria@katamail.com

  • Photos from the Warehouse

    Photos from the Warehouse

    Some of the pictures I took in the warehouse in Ravenna near the “darsena”, where I recorded some material for my solo electroacoustic project.

    All the pictures were shoot by me using a tripod and long multi-exposures, only few minor adjustments were made after.

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  • Leaving Beirut

    Leaving Beirut

    I’m back home after some wonderful days in Beirut.

    I completely forgot to ask some friend to take pictures during my concert at Yukunkun, luckily Maria Kassab snapped a couple of pictures with her mobile phone, I have also taken a picture of the set during the soundcheck. Thanks to Sharif Sehnaoui for inviting me and to all the people that came to the concert, the feedback I received was really lovely.

     

    Yukunkun panorama

  • A sound postcard from Beirut

    A sound postcard from Beirut

    This is a processed field recording taken on 19/04/13 in Hamra Street, Beirut, Lebanon.
    It was sent the same day to Italy to be played during a live performance of Kisses From Mars in Ravenna. It is therefore a sort of sound postcard from Beirut.