Share Festival - Market Forces

Saturday November 7th, Allegretti Contemporanea Art Gallery, via San Francesco D’Assisi, 14 8h pm

“La terra guasta” is an installation based on motorized sound sources controlled by the computer. Its Italian name is an etymological translation of “The Waste Land”, making an explicit reference to the problem of the waste of resources which characterizes the so-called “mature” capitalism. In the installation, the text of Eliot’s Waste Land is converted into patterns of activation for the sound source ensemble. That is, the text is progressively scanned, and each letter is associated to a certain combination of “instruments”, then activated. In Eliot’s text, the desolation of human condition in modernity is often acutely shown by a landscape (and a soundscape) of waste. This condition is evidently not over yet, even if we’d like to place us into various post-modern districts.

Thus, it becomes possible to play the percussion ensemble like a traditional instrument, responsive to the the interaction with the performer. In the performance, the Rumentarium, controlled by Andrea Valle, plays with 3quietmen trio (Dario Bruna, Federico Marchesano, Ramon Moro), adding different (electric) sounds, to the ones generated by the instruments, other percussions to the motorized ones a quelle motorizzate, other sensibilities to the machine’s one.

3quietmen is a project by Dario Bruna (drums and percussions), Federico Marchesano (acoustic and electric bass), Ramon Moro (trumpet and effects). Their music mixes together experiences coming from jazz, rock, contemporary music in a deeply innovative language. In 10 years of activity, 3quietmen has carried out a lot of important experiences, such as Magdeburg Jazz Festival, Turin Traffic Free Festival, Catanzaro Diagonal Jazz Festival. In April, 2008, the trio toured in China and was invited in the beautiful Forbidden Concert Hall of Beijing.

Andrea Valle is a composer and a bass player. His work as a composer is mainly focused on algorithmic methodologies, indifferently in the electro-acoustic and in the instrumental domain. He is researcher at DAMS, Turin and a founding member of CIRMA, the Interdepartmental Centre for Audiovisual and Multimedia of the University of Turin.