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ULISSE: Un racconto popolare

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Ulisse: Un racconto popolare 
e’ laboratorio-residenza itinerante e uno spettacolo di teatro fisico, ispirato alla tradizione del racconto orale e della localita’.

Nel laboratorio, di volta in volta concepito attorno a un nucleo stabile di artisti partecipanti allo spettacolo, si raccolgono schegge della storia che vengono disposte poi all’interno della metastruttura dello spettacolo, che non comprende solo l’eroe Omerico ma liberamente usa l’intera nuvola ipertestuale della modernita’ fiorita attorno alla figura di Ulisse.

Lo spettacolo è concepito per essere rappresentato anche in luoghi non tradizionalmente teatrali, sia all’aperto che al chiuso, e usando in contemporanea diverse lingue e dialetti.

Il primo work-in-progress e’ stato creato e presentato durante Trasformatorio, un laboratorio-residenza a Montalbano Elicona, in Sicilia.

Ulisse: Un racconto popolare nasce dalla collaborazione del regista Francesco Piotti, la coreografa Eugenia Demeglio, il sound artist Alberto Novello e i performers del Trasformatorio.

Narra il viaggio di ritorno di Ulisse immaginato dagli abitanti di Itaca, divisi e dominati dalle sperequazioni e alla ricerca di una speranza: il capovolgimento dei propri destini.

Ulysses: A popular xanax drug test story is a performance of physical theater and a laboratory, inspired by the tradition of oral storytelling.

The laboratory is from time to time designed around a stable core of artists participating to the show, who collect fragments of the story that are then re-arranged to compose the show line, which includes not only the Homeric hero, but uses the entire hypertext of modern aura that flourished around the figure of Ulysses.

The show is designed to be represented in different locations, both outdoors and indoors, using all different languages ​​and dialects available.

The first work-in-progress and has been created and presented during Tranformatorio, a laboratory-residence in Montalbano Elicona, in Sicily.


Ulysses: A popular story is a collaboration between the director Francesco Piotti , the choreographer Eugenia Demeglio , sound artist Alberto Novello and many performers involved in Trasformatorio.

It narrates the return journey of Odysseus as it is imagined by the inhabitants of Ithaca, divided and dominated by inequalities, and looking for one hope: the reversal of their own destinies.

Performance Alpha

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A project involving Emanuel Andel & Antoni Raizhekoff (ThisPlay), Sara de Santis and Alberto Novello.

Another of the interesting collaborations that just happened in Trasformatorio number zero: the dance transforms into light, the tower of Montalbano’s Castle is morphed into a reactive light instrument, the sound flows from two small monitor speakers and the viewer fights within this setup to choose what to look at.

(We were all so mesmerized that there was little footage to be used. It will expand and transform. Thanks for sharing to Emanuel, Sara, Anton xanax pfizer and Alberto…)

Un progetto che coinvolge Emanuel Andel & Antoni Raizhekoff (ThisPlay), Sara de Santis e Alberto Novello.

Un’altra delle collaborazioni interessanti accadute in Trasformatorio #zero: la danza si trasforma in luce, la torre del Castello di Montalbano cambia in uno strumento di luce reattiva, il suono fluisce da due piccoli altoparlanti e lo spettatore combatte all’interno di questa impostazione per scegliere cosa da guardare.

(Eravamo tutti straniti che ci fosse cosi’ poco girato da utilizzare. Si espanderà e trasformera’. Grazie per la condivisione di Emanuel, Sara, Anton e Alberto …)

Mapping Montalbano

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map by Kirsten Roosendaal
map by Kirsten Roosendaal

 

A research project of Kirsten Roosendaal and Riet Mellink (NL)
8, 9 and 10 April 2013

In three days Kirsten Roosendaal and Riet Mellink made three walks, starting from the Castle in Montalbano. The result of this research is 6 maps, 8 lists and a plan emerging for a project next year.

Animals (some dead):
Goats, ducks, elephant, sheep (loose as well as tied up) , squid, lizards (dead and alive), mussles, fish, chill moulds,, dogs, spiders, horses (in different colours), cows, rabbits, geese, chickens, flees, maggots, ants, caterpillars, bumblebees, flies, sparrows, buzzards, butterflies, turtle, eagle, swifts, cats,

People:
Guiseppe and his son Carmello – guiding us over a fence and taking us back to Montalbano from Argimusco, the German speaking man in his backyard, Pippo Lopresti – driving us uphill top Montalbano from Braidi, the farmers wife and her son, the man working in his orchard – explaining us how to get back to the ashfalt road, the woman who lived in Switzerland for 18 years and whose husband renovated the medieval resort

Languages:
English, French, German, Dutch, Italian

Sounds:
Barking dogs, chainsaws, cuckoo, water in the little rivers, wind in the high voltage cables, birds, swifts screaming, owls fighting, sheepbells, tractors, shss shsh sshs of disappearing lizzards

Picknick spots:
On a big rock, on an old refrigerator, under high voltage cables, on warm ashfalt with a view on Mt Etna on the right and Stromboli on the left side, an espressobar in Sta Maria, and at a fountain next to the supermarket in Montalbano

Cars we travelled in:
Fiat Panda, Renault 5, Pippo’s Peugeot, Alpha Romeo

Objects that inspired us:
refrigerators, a treasure chest, a containership, fences, locked and metal coated doors, mobile stairs and fallen photos at the graveyard, plastic bags in trees, windmills, stone roads, skirt&feetplant, barbed wire, monoliths and clouds at Argimusco

 

Un progetto di ricerca di Kirsten buy cheap xanax Roosendaal e Riet Mellink (NL)
8, 9 e 10 aprile 2013

In tre giorni Kirsten Roosendaal e Riet Mellink hanno fatto tre passeggiate, a partire dal Castello di Montalbano. Il risultato di questa ricerca sono 6 mappe, 8 liste e un piano per un progetto il prossimo anno.

Animali (alcuni morti):
Capre, anatre, elefante, pecore (libere e legate), calamari, lucertole (vive e morte), cozze, pesce, muschio freddo, cani, ragni, cavalli (in diversi colori), mucche, conigli, oche, polli, pulci, vermi, formiche, bruchi, mosche, bombi, passeri, poiane, farfalle, tartarughe, aquila, rondini, gatti.

Persone:
Giuseppe e suo figlio Carmello – ci fanno uscire da un recinto e ci riportano a Montalbano dall’ Argimusco, l’uomo che parla tedesco nel suo cortile, Pippo Lopresti – che ci ha dato un passaggio da Montalbano a Braidi, la moglie dell’agricoltore e suo figlio, l’uomo che lavora nel suo frutteto – ci spiega come tornare alla strada asfaltata, la donna che ha vissuto in Svizzera per 18 anni e il cui marito ha rinnovato il villaggio medievale.

Lingue:
Inglese, francese, tedesco, olandese, italiano

Suoni:
Cani che abbaiano, motoseghe, cuculo, l’acqua nei piccoli fiumi, vento tra i cavi dell’alta tensione, uccelli, rondini che urlano, gufi che combattono, campanelle delle pecore, trattori, SHSS SHSH SSHS delle lucertole che scompaiono

Posti per un picknick:
Su una grande roccia, su un vecchio frigorifero, sotto i cavi dell’alta tensione, sull’asfalto caldo con vista sul Monte Etna a destra e Stromboli sul lato sinistro, un bar in Santa Maria e ad una fontana accanto al supermercato di Montalbano.

Macchine in cui abbiamo viaggiato:
Fiat Panda, Renault 5, Peugeot di Pippo, Alfa Romeo

Cose che ci hanno ispirato:
frigoriferi, uno scrigno, un container, recinzioni, porte di metallo rivestite e chiuse, scale mobili e le foto cadute al cimitero, sacchetti di plastica negli alberi, mulini, strade di pietra, gonna e feetplant, filo spinato, i monoliti e le nuvole all’ Argimusco.

map by Riet Mellink
map by Riet Mellink

Rosa Dei Venti

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An installation about the human will to control the god-made elements.

By Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN

During the Residency at the Trasformatorio in Montealbano (Sicily), the wind was blowing so much that i wished i could stop it with a simple gesture. So i decided to build an installation in the pitch-dark long corridor of the museum of the castle to recreate the scary atmosphere of a storm at night and allow the visitors to control/play with “the elements”.

In line with the concept of the Trasformatorio, the challenge was how to create a big convincing storm sound and be eco-friendly. Usually big sound requires big expensive equipment in terms of money and energy.

I captured the sound of the wind outside and diffused it through several loudspeakers which were enough to deliver the high what do viagra and cialis do if taken together frequencies of the wind character. I used resonators to make vibrate the walls, windows and metals plates of the castle to generate a bigger, more realistic low thundery sound. Finally i programmed a wireless sensor system (powered by cell phone batteries) to allow the people to control the intensity of the wind with their hands.

The whole system could run on solar energy. During the day a solar panel would charge a car battery and during the night the electricity could power the whole installation: amplifiers, computer and sensors.

Thanks to Daniele Pisasale/Insolaria for the sun energy system and STEIM/Marije Baalman for the SenseStage microcontroller boards.

Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN, scientist, sound designer,composer, audio-visual artists.

www.jestern.com
jestern77@yahoo.it

 

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Epi::Akten light (motion tracking studies)

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By Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN, Anthoni Rijekoff and Federica Dauri

We used a combination of technologies to create a flexible and transportable low-impact energy motion tracking system. Through the ASUS Xtion PRO LIVE interface we can determine the skeleton joint position in a 2d space. We used network communication to transfer the bodily information to a second computer for sound design, which used pre-recorded sound of Montealbano village in a concatenative synthesis fashion. This added the sense of location-specific to the raw technology.

All elements run on solar energy and have an autonomy of several hours with a completely charged car battery. The dancer was inspired by the metaphors of body giving/body receiving in her actions and could construct cialis sample pack autonomously several improvisations which were always very creative and different. The aesthetic imposed by the developed technology revolves around the concept of synchronicity of machine-human // action-reaction. Mostly the dancer decides when to trigger sound events but sometimes the unexpected sound trigger the creativity of the dancer which adds a random creative element in the aesthetic discourse.

We feel all these experimentations have big potential and will be further explored in the context of a future performance.

Thanks to STEIM/Marije Baalman for the SenseStage microcontroller boards and Insolaria/Daniele Pisasale for the solar energy system.

You can find other videos of Federica and Alberto’s improvisations in the darke version here.

Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN, scientist, sound designer,composer, audio-visual artists.

www.jestern.com
jestern77@yahoo.it

Epi::Akten dark (motion tracking studies)

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By Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN and Federica Dauri

http://youtu.be/m-KjLn04yhw&hd=1

We used a combination of technologies to create a flexible and transportable low-impact energy motion-tracking system. Through the SenseStage microcontroller boards developed by Marije Baalman at STEIM we can determine the acceleration of joint positions wirelessly. It took couple of days to understand of the accelerometer works and what kind of data is transmitted. How to stabilize/lowpass the data and eliminate jitter. At the end we use modulo of the acceleration in 3directions, so it doesn’t count the direction of the acceleration just its intensity. We finally chose to put one on each arm plus one on the back of the dancer. This choice leaves the legs free to express which seems a good compromise to have a creative output and not just a demo of a system.

The advantage of the SenseStage sensors compared to Kinect and other similar devices is the absence of a camera, thus allowing the possibility of 3d tracking (especially when joints get covered by other body parts). Another advantage is the extended space,we tried with a 30m room with perfect detection side effects of ambien 10 mg and very-low latency. Disadvantage is the estimation of the skeleton relative positions, but we think it’s possible.

Another advantage is the lightness of computation allowing one computer to do all kinds of processing. Which means also less energy impact when used with a solar energy, longer performance durations, transportability etc.

The dancer was inspired by the metaphors of body giving/body receiving in her actions and could construct autonomously several improvisations which were always very creative and different. The aesthetic imposed by the developed technology plays a lot with synchronicity of machine-human action-reaction. Mostly the dancer decides when to trigger sound events but sometimes the unexpected sound trigger the creativity of the dancer which adds a random creative element in the discourse.

We feel the experimentation have big potential and will be further explored in the context of a future performance.

Thanks to STEIM/Marije Baalman for the SenseStage microcontroller boards and Insolaria/Daniele Pisasale for the solar energy system.

You can find other videos of Federica and Alberto’s improvisations in the light version (with Anthoni Rijekoff) here.

Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN, scientist, sound designer,composer, audio-visual artists.

www.jestern.com
jestern77@yahoo.it

Wunderkammer/ La Camera delle Meraviglie

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|RE| Wunderkammer, installazione, mixed media, Cappella Palatina, Castello di Montalbano Elicona 2013
|RE| Wunderkammer, installazione, mixed media, Cappella Palatina, Castello di Montalbano Elicona 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

di RE – www.reborderline.com

Wunderkammer e’ un’espressione usata nel 1500 dai collezionisti soliti ad assemblare raccolte di oggetti straordinari per le loro caratteristiche fisiche inusuali. Quest’opera ne e’ una rivisitazione che esplora l’aspetto interiore anziche’ fermarsi agli aspetti fisici delle cose.

Suddivisa in 13 cellette, ognuna realizzata in una delle giornate di Trasformatorio. Ogni giorno (e quindi ogni celletta) racchiude la particolarita’ di un concetto specifico; dall’incontro con gli altri partecipanti alla ricerca interiore coincisa con il workshop. Wunderkammer rappresenta un tentativo di ascesa spirituale e il suo eco nel profondo.

by RE – www.reborderline.com

Wunderkammer generic ambien prices is an expression used in 1500 by collectors who assembled collections of objects they considered extraordinary for their unusual physical characteristics. This work is a remake that explores the inner aspect instead of stopping  at the physical aspects of things.

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It is divided into 13 cells, each made in one of the days of Trasformatorio. Every day (and thus each cell) contains the particularity of a specific concept, from the encounter with the other participants to the inner search that coincided with the workshop. Wunderkammer is an attempt to spiritual ascent and its echo in the depths.

 

|RE| Wunderkammer, Caos,
foto di Guido Gaudioso

 

Aderenza alla Superficie/ Surface Adherence

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di Elena Gidoni.

Le emozioni sono fatte di memoria, si riversano sul presente, inquinandolo di passato.

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“Preparare la stanza dove ho proiettato il video e’ diventata un’azione che e’ parte del progetto stesso, esplorando il concetto di patterns emotive e condizionamenti.”

 

 

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Emotions are made of memory: the past spilling over the present, in a loop of projections and lies.

“Dressing the room where I placed my installation became part of the project itself, as I was exploring the concept of emotional patterns and conditioning.”

Map[pa]

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trasforma-MAP

On the evening of 13th April the castle opened its doors to the resident population of Montalbano and more guests. The castle changed its form through the interventions of the Trasformatoristas, offering the audience a different perspective on a familiar site.

The Trasformatoristas‘ interventions were contributing in creating an immersive experience rather than a linear one. So the idea of the Map[pa] came to my mind, in order to facilitate the visitors’ journey, suggesting them to become one-night-explorers, looking at ‘their’ castle with the eyes of someone who would see it for the first time.

M. Eugenia Demeglio

La sera del dosage of valium to increase appetite in cats 13 Aprile, il Castello ha aperto le sue porte alla popolazione residente di Montalbano e ad altri ospiti. Il castello aveva cambiato la sua forma grazie agli interventi dei Trasformatoristas, offrendo al pubblico una prospettiva diversa su un sito familiare.

Gli interventi dei Trasformatoristas contribuivano a creare un’esperienza immersiva piuttosto che lineare. Ecco quindi come l’idea della Mappa[pa] mi è venuta in mente, al fine di agevolare il viaggio del pubblico nei differenti siti del Castello, suggerendo loro di diventare esploratori-di-una-notte, e di guardare il ‘loro’ castello con gli occhi di una persona che lo veda per la prima volta.

M. Eugenia Demeglio

In corpore / Trasformatorio

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Guido Gaudioso con la performer Federica Dauri
Guido Gaudioso con la performer Federica Dauri

 

“In corpore” si propone come una riflessione su un tema quanto mai attuale: il corpo umano, come esso viene oggi fruito e percepito.Oggi il corpo stesso è rappresentazione, ovvero immaginario, individuale o collettivo che sia. È il tempo della manipolazione fisica, corporale.

La chirurgia plastica è alla portata di chiunque, e non desta più scandalo vedere corpi ricostruiti, dalle proporzioni innaturali ma rispondenti a modelli che i mezzi di comunicazione presentano come un ideale di bellezza, che è lecito, se non doveroso, perseguire.

Il corpo umano è diventato anch’esso “prodotto“, reificato dalle e per le esigenze della “Società dello Spettacolo“.

Allo stesso tempo esso non rappresenta più un limite concreto, fisico appunto, all’individualità ed al suo agire. Internet ha demolito questi confini.

Si parla di “realtà virtuale“, di corpi che non hanno tangibilità, composti da informazioni elettroniche, ma non per questo meno “veri“.

Il progetto “In corpore” indaga alcuni degli aspetti sopra accennati, rivolgendo l’attenzione ad argomenti che fanno comunque, da sempre, parte della mia ricerca.

“In corpore” trae spunto dagli aspetti che ho menzionato, nel tentativo di proporre una diversa considerazione del corpo, o quanto meno una più attenta valutazione delle ragioni e delle conseguenze di questo atteggiamento.

Naturalmente nelle immagini in questione confluiscono altri elementi, influenze che riguardano argomenti che fanno comunque, da sempre, parte della mia ricerca: il concetto di Identità, la tradizione alchemica e la bellezza plastica delle forme umane.

Le questioni di base, secondo me, sono sempre le stesse: “Chi sono io?”, “Cos’è il mio corpo?”, “Dove comincio e dove finisco come individuo? Il mio corpo è un oggetto di cui dispongo o determina ciò che sono?”.

Le opere per Trasformatorio sono state realizzate grazie alla preziosa collaborazione con la performer Federica Dauri.

 

“In corpore” is a reflection yellow valium on a topic very interesting to me: the human body, how it is perceived and received today.Today the body itself is mere rapresentation, a questionable reality. We are in the era of genetic engineering, cloning, coding genome. It is a time of physical, corporal manipulation.

Plastic surgery is affordable for anyone who wants to submit it, and it doesn’t make scandal anymore to see bodies rebuilt, with unnatural but satisfying proportions models that the media presented as an ideal of beauty to pursue.

The human body too has become “product” for the requirements of the “Society of the Spectacle.”

At the same time, it is no longer a limiting physical, to the individuality and his act. Internet has broken down these boundaries.

The project “In corpore” explores some of the issues mentioned above, paying attention to topics that has always been part of my research.

“In corpore” draws inspiration from the aspects I have mentioned, in an attempt to propose a different view of the body, or at least a more careful evaluation of the reasons and consequences of this attitude.

Of course in the images in question are included other elements, influences that address matters that have always been part of my research: the concept of identity, the alchemical tradition and the plastic beauty of the human form.

The basic questions, to me, are always the same: “Who am I?”, “What is my body?”, “Where do I begin and where I end up as an individual? My body is an object that I have and determines what is it? “.

Info about works of the project “In Corpore/Trasformatorio”:

  1. Size: mt.1,00 x 1,00
  2. Limited edition 10/10
  3. Analog photography and mixed media.

 

With the very important collaboration of the performer Federica Dauri.

 

opera by Guido Gaudioso, performer Federica Dauri
opera by Guido Gaudioso, performer Federica Dauri