from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
The aspect of sound that most strongly marks our experience of the world and most sharply defines the formation of our memories is timbre. Of all the various acoustic parameters, timbre is the one that most effectively shuns a specific taxonomy, but it is precisely in this difficulty to catalogue timbre that we can find room for a personal, social, economic and environmental investigation of it. Through practices ranging from the analysis of the sound landscape to group improvisation and experimentation with various materials (the construction and modification of simple musical instruments and of simple amplifying mechanisms), the workshop sets out to stimulate a journey within timbre both as critical and as personal as possible. The experiments will be geared towards a redefinition of the role of technologies and tools of production in compositional and improvisational practice, adopting a problematical posture to question the very concept of “hi-fi” so broadly subscribed to and thereby encouraging the emergence of a form of timbric awareness.
Simone Pappalardo’s research takes its cue from timbre explored with a view to social and cultural analysis through electronic stringed instruments, interactive performances, contemporary compositions, sound art installations and educational activities.
He has presented his work at numerous festivals and contemporary art museums throughout the world. He has been an artist in residence at the Mattatoio in Rome and at the Goethe Institut in Berlin, he won the Media Art Festival Award at the Maxxi in Rome in 2016 and a special mention in the National Arts Prize awards for 2008. He is the founder of the improvisation orchestra Fields, a member of the artistic committee of the Ensemble Opificio Sonoro and co-founder of the trio Mas.
He has also worked with artists in the fields of the theatre, dance, the plastic arts and the cinema.
He has taught electronic music and musical IT at many Italian conservatories. He currently lectures in electro-acoustic musical composition at the State Conservatory in Perugia and teaches sound design at the University of Fine Art (RUFA) and at the Saint Louis Music College in Rome.
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REGISTRATION:
If you wish to take part in the workshops, you should e-mail a page in .pdf format containing a short biography of yourself and a few lines explaining why you wish to take part, to laboratori.pelanda@palaexpo.it, specifying the workshop in which you wish to take part and letting us have a phone number where you can be contacted
participation in the workshops is free of charge
Registration deadline 1 April
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