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The concept of Ecotone, a transition space between two ecosystems, is an achievable utopia.
ECOTONE is a site-specific sound walk. It is an interdisciplinary experimentation at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking, in a close relationship with the architectural space and its crossings (human and non-human). It is also a practice of poetic-urban investigation that betrays the space of the visible by translating it into new affective and occult cartography. Deep listening and field recording are integrated into the workflow as an opportunity to listen actively and to rewrite the space.
The sound walk is branched into two exercises of embodied and radical imagination.
1. DRIFT IN THE GLADE: it is a participative practice conceived to rewrite the landscape, intended as the ever mutable result of the species’ joint actions.
In this case, such reformulation is induced through a drifting walk and programmatically disorganised crossing. According to the principle of dis-planning and un-productivity, the desire is to defuse social, cultural and economic patterns.
Accompanying the public in its trajectories from one space to another, some scores will be distributed to the participants.
*The soundscape of the drift will be recorded.
FANTASTIC ARCHAEOLOGY:
Through the spontaneous collection of autochthonous found objects, we will witness the emergence of new affective systems of symbols, cases of heteroglossia, mythopoeic alphabets will emerge.
*The sounds of the found objects will be recorded.
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Vittoria Assembri is an Italian experimental sound artist and independent researcher in sonic art, radio art and public architecture. Her research develops from site-specific deep listening practices and field recording, focusing on urban dynamics, sociocultural processes and public sphere, with which to rewrite an affective and political landscape of resistance.
She curates the radio programs Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears on Fango Radio-IT and Wunderscorpion on Station station Radio-FR.
She has presented her work as performances and installations around Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Argentina at institutions and festivals such ACAC-Aomori Contemporary Art Center (JP), Villa Medici (IT), Bofill foundation (ES), C-LAB (TWN), Ircam (FR), JNB festival (IDN), Lacking sound festival (TWN), Binaural (PT), cheLA-Experimental Center of Latino America (AR), OTOOTO (JP), Ftarri (JP), Twenty Alpha (HK), KC GRAD (SRB), Marosi festival (IT), C3 (IT).
