Sophienstrasse
| Sophienstrasse is planned as a ‘performance-installation’, which delves into the simultaneous use of different artistic languages: dance, theatre, music and video art. The Project examines, employs and theorizes innovating communication forms. New technologies will be used as artistic tools for experimenting. The work is based on the novel by German author Heinrich Böll “The Clown” (Ansichten eines Clowns, 1963). The aim of the project is not to present the linear plot of the novel, but to investigate its emotions, feelings and mind sets. |
invisible lands
| Invisible lands is a performance of experimental electronic music and live videoart ideated and played by Alessandro Olla (composer and musician) and “signorafranca” (videoartists). The performance has its roots in the wide and varied field of original expressive codes, wich deliberately avoid the logical of cultural consumerism as well as from stock genre connotations, with the intention to explore unusual ways of organizing different languages and to critically involve the spectators.ent languages and to critically involve the spectators. |
memory reset
| The title of the work refers to the zeroing of the conflict between memory and temporality. The basic idea of the work comes from reflections about the relationship between time and memory: the research and the study of those themes has been developed in a prevalent way among the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy. The idea is developed also trough the narration of a dreamed journey. The narrative technique of a dream, already widely used in the history of cinema, offers the possibility to emancipate from the reference to the daily reality in order to investigate and communicate through the unconsciousness and to show its projections. From a grammatical and structural point of view has been privileged the interaction between the traditional filmic language and the experimental video art.elenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. |
piano works
| «... the improvisation gives me the opportunity to be inwardly carefull, to realize such an emotional introspection. An inner flux often out of control, it’s quasi a state of trance...» |
Song Books - Letter to John Cage
| Dedicated to cathy berberian and simone rist, no less than 90 solo for voice are gathered in the song books, written by john cage in 1970 between august and october. Here are brought togheter diverse kind of solos divided in four main categories: songs, songs with electronic, theatre and theatre with electronic. The solos for voice, in the pieces which preview a lyric, are almost all drawn on the writtings of the composer erik satie and the philosopher and naturalist henry david thoreau, whom cage considered his spiritual fathers.elenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. |