[microsound-announce] ALESSIO BALLERINI La Radio a Pedali

[alessio ballerini]

ALESSIO BALLERINI
La Radio a Pedali


cat: gal 0070
date: sept 21 2013
time: 36:00


Press
Alessio Ballerini is one of the most prolific and versatile artist in the Italian scene, which can now prides itself of great artists known internationally (such as Attila Faravelli, Pietro Riparbelli, Davide Tidoni, Paolo Inverni, Enrico Ascoli, just to mention some). He is joining Galaverna label presenting a work realised during a sound-event arranged by Radio Papesse and held in June 2011. <<”La Radio a Pedali” is a collaborative project by Radio Papesse in order to encourage people to meditate on themes such as energy – especially the one related to art and culture – and sustainability – both cultural and environmental>>, say the two curators of the project Carola Haupt and Ilaria Gadenz.
In his work Ballerini has been able to capture the essence of the performance held in Florence: a parade of cyclists where each of them were invited to carry a radio tuned on music for piano by Beethoven and Liszt. The result of Ballerini’s effort is a varied ”acoustic scenario” in which there is a multiplication of sounds and conceptual levels (the cycling sound, the radio music, the path considered as an unique space). <<This experience – said the artist – has been a challenge also on a generational point of view, a longing for a possible meeting, between dichotomic concepts as bicycle-car or internet-LP record, in order to develop a different compositive approach based on raw recordings, post-production transfigurations and mixing>>.

As result, all layers merge into a single plan in which classical music compositions and field recordings get together into something completely new, unexpected and multifaceted. Ballerini describes his track as a mixture of “tunes of hopes and dreams”; an incredible dialogue is created between instrumental parts and participants voices, witness of an intense storytelling. Beyond any sterile and stereotyped representation, this work is an example of how field recording can step aside from being philological instrumental and create intense narrations.


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