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Frozen Dreams: Firewords   In  Frozen Dreams: Firewords , I combined two concepts from my artistic exploration:  Frozen Dreams  and  Reactivations .  I did this by merging two recently created chapters. Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night  and  Deserted Dreams  which I both presented in January 2026 at Café Tissardmine, an artistic residency in the Moroccan Sahara. In the mountain spaces of  Stone Oven House  (The House with the Oven)  https://stoneovenhouse.com/  I used a disused old rustic building and a forest path, coordinating the two projects in a unique dreamlike path seizing the opportunity of the  FireWords festival: Fuoco di Parole.   Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night , first chapter of a work-in-progress, ambience-specific, audio-visual installation. It is a project conceived and carried out during an artistic residency I did, together with photographer and videomaker Eugeni...

  Sound Reactivations: Deserted Dreams   "I am a man whose dreams have all deserted" Peter Gabriel,  Dont' give up ,  So  (1986) As part of the  Sound   Reactivations  project ,  during the artist residency at  Café Tissardmine ,  I created the audio-visual installation  Deserted Dreams , in a house that had been abandoned and deserted for many years, in the tiny village of Tissardmine, in the Moroccan Sahara, not far from the Algerian border.  Voices recorded over the years (already part of the  Frozen Dreams  and  Thawing Dreams  project) recount dreams in different languages: here they are broadcast from hidden loudspeakers, in the twilight of a lyric desert sunset.

Le vie dei Sogni, the Dreamlines, is an article published in Polarlit magazine no. 2, September 2025. The article stems from artistic residencies in the Arctic desert of Svalbard, Norway, and in the Sahara desert in Tissardmine, Morocco, between the winter of 2023 and the summer of 2024. During these residencies, I developed and presented the audio-visual installation projects "Frozen Dreams," "Luminous Voices in the Night," and "Thawing Dreams, Voices are Water,"  created in collaboration with Eugenio Pini and Jess Mountfield. read the online article read/download the pdf of English version

Giuseppe Gavazza Radio Reactivation Port Bou  Septembre 27-29, 2025 Reactivations (...) expliquer d’où je pars pour proposer dans notre rencontre, à Port Bou, fin septembre 2025 le concept de  Reactivations , qui accompagne certains de mes projets artistiques. In Benjamin account of reactivation, the reproduction (document) of an art object or performance (…) allows us to reproduce for ourselves the thing reproduced, to bring it to life, to reactivate it, so as to be able to experience it in our present moment. Listening to recorded music is perhaps the most straightforward example: (…) 1 Dans la conception de Benjamin de la réactivation, la reproduction (document) d'un objet d'art ou d'une performance (...) nous permet de reproduire pour nous-mêmes la chose reproduite, de lui donner vie, de la réactiver, afin de pouvoir en faire l'expérience dans notre présent. Écouter de la musique enregistrée en est peut-être l'exemple le plus éloquent : (…)  One might generalize...

Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night the film by Eugenio Pini 12th International FKL Symposium on soundscape
  Catania, September 24 - 27 | 2025 The film "Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night," by Eugenio Pini and Giuseppe Gavazza, has been screened within the framework of Ways of Listening,  12th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Catania (IT), on Wednesday, September 24th, at Zō Centro Culture C ontemporanee. https://www.paesaggiosonoro.it/ways_of_listening/program.html  More information:  https://giuseppegavazza.it/works/cronologia/2-uncategorised/332-frozen-dreams-film

  Medley III Title: Medley III Instrument:  GENESIS sounds, field recordings and old radio broadcasts, dispersed around 24 loudspeakers Duration: 12'02" Year of composition: 2025 Property, publisher: Author  First performance:  WAVES, 4th International Workshop in Theory and Sound August 26-29, 2025 Moni Paou, Pelion, Greece This is a stereo re-composition  Medley, here some info I don't like medleys very much and, perhaps for this very reason, I threw myself the challenge of proposing one on the occasion of a new composition to be broadcast on the large 3D klangdom at the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. The hemispherical space with its six vertical levels becomes a clock that screws from bottom to top in a chronological sense. I decomposed and recomposed 12 minutes of music using models of my main GENESIS compositions from 1996 to the present, together with field-recorded sounds and fragments of radio br...

  Waves, De Rerum Natura 4th International Workshop in Theory and Sound August 26-29, 2025 Moni Paou, Pelion WAVES Organised the “Mobility Studies” Postgraduate Programme and the Social Anthropology Lab (Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology), Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, and the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly.   DAY 1 - Tuesday, August 26 (Moni Paou, seminar room) 20:10 - 21:00, Performance - lecture: De Rerum Natura, Waves Giuseppe Gavazza (AAU Cresson, ENSA Grenoble)  My experience as a composer of over 20 years has led me to consider the GENESIS physical modelling environment (ACROE, Grenoble) as an instrument that enables the creation of musical compositions across three levels: - micro-formal (timbre, harmony and instrumentation); - mezzo-formal (rhythm, melody, primary sequences, and basic harmonic settings); -macro-formal (hig...

  Les Voixes Electriques : Electrornithologie As part of the Foyer Lire avec les vivantes : les carnet d'oiseaux I took inspiration from the installation Le Jardin des Voix Timides created at the Jardin des Plantes in Grenoble in 2021. I proposed an audio installation that diffused - via portable speakers hidden in the trees of the grove next to the Château de Cerisy orangery that welcomed us - synthetic sounds. Influenced by the subject of the foyer and perhaps also by the colloque Jean Cocteau, le déniaisement des lettres et des arts which ran in parallel I decided to title this project Le Voix Electriques. To the participants in the foyer I proposed listening to a selection of synthetic electronic sounds, which to my ear sounded like signals, strange and mysterious voices. Collectively we have chosen a dozen "voices" and assigned them a fictitious name, pseudo Linnaeus, and a descriptive card pseudo ...

  Guardando nello specchio Guardando nello specchio Title: Guardando nello specchio (Looking in the mirror)
 Instruments: guqin and voices. On a poem of Li Ch'ung-ss 
 Duration: 2'34"
Year of composition: 2025
 Ownership, publisher: author
 First performance: Lin Chen, Sylvain Denoux Foyer de création et d'échanges 2025, Chateau de Cerisy, August 10th, 2025 Written for Lin Chen In the spirit of creative collaboration at the Foyer de création et d'échanges 2025, Chateau de Cerisy, I had the precious opportunity to discover, thanks to Lin Chen, the guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. In a concert performed on August 10th, in the living room of the Château de Cerisy, Lin Chen - with the collaboration of  Sylvain Denoux - presented 8th century poems by Li Ch'ung-ss, the poet who is the subject of her doctoral thesis at the Université de la Méditerranée-Aix-Marseille-II.  I took the opportunity ...

  Frozen Dreams Film FROZEN DREAMS, Luminous Voices in the Night  Screening of the documentary and presentation of the audio-visual installation Thursday, July 3rd 2025, h.8:45 p.m. Il Fondaco - via Cuneo, 18 - BRA (CN) Testo italiano: scorrere verso il basso Projection of the documentary and presentation of the audio-visual installation FROZEN DREAMS, made in Longyearbyen, in the Svalbard islands, by Giuseppe Gavazza and Eugenio Pini. Frozen Dreams is an audio-visual installation created during the polar night of 2023/2024 by composer Giuseppe Gavazza and photographer and video designer Eugenio Pini in Longyearbyen, in the archipelago of the Svalbard Islands. The installation takes shape from the audio recordings of dreams that Giuseppe Gavazza has collected over time, dreams told by the same voices of people who have dreamed them. An uninterrupted flow of words, in different languages that in a dark and i...

  Sound Reactivation: Inner I Verden The Spitsbergen Artists Center is honored to host the photo exhibition of The Last Miners of Longyearbyen. Join us for the opening on June 7th at 15:00. The exhibition will also feature the installation ’Sound Reactivation' by Giuseppe Gavazza, which uses audio recordings made inside Gruve 7 a few days before its closure and will be activated Station Radio Gruve 7 FM 100.2, that will be broadcasted (24/7) in a small area around Vei 100.2, Spitsbergen Kunstnersenteret till the end of the exhibition We look forward to seeing you there! Afterwards, open every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 12.00-16.00.   go to my web page  see also: Radio Gruve 7 more info:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1242306510723468 https://www.snsk.no/bergverk/gruve-7 https://www.gem.wiki/Mine_7_Coal_Mine https://polarjournal.net/the-end-of-norwegian-coal-mining-on-svalbard/     go t...

  Radio Gruve 7   As part of the photo exhibition:  INNE I VERDEN / INSIDE THE WORLD: the Last Miners of Longyearbyen which opened at the Spitsbergen Kunstnerserter / Artist Center, Vei 100.2 Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, I presented the installation Sound Reactivation:  Radio Gruve7 FM 100.2 which uses audio recordings I made inside Gruve 7 / Mine 7, at the end of May 2025, a few weeks before its closure. At the same time, the Gruve 7 Radio Station, FM 100.2 , was activated and will broadcast in an area of about one kilometre around the Spitsbergen Kunstnersenteret, Vei 100.2, until June 30, 2025, when Gruve 7 / Mine 7, the last active mine in Longyearbyen, and last norvegian Svalbard mine will will be permanently closed. During its activity, Radio Gruve7 FM 100.2 will be the northernmost FM broadcaster. A possible reactivation after 30 June 2025 will be discussed as a lasting tribute to over ...

Frozen Dreams in a oasis in Morocco's Sahara Full information on the project Frozen Dreams : click here   Dreamlines Several years ago, down in the Parisian subway, I saw an airline advertisement that said: In English, this translates to: "The shortest path to go from one point to another is not a straight line, but the dream." In January 2024 I showed the installation Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night in the gallery of the Spitsbergen Artists Centre in Longyearbyen, Svalbard; a year later I took the same artwork to another desert, 5303.99 km to the south: In the framework of the artistic residency at Café Tissardmine on 20 and 27 January 2025, in the intimate space of a Sahara oasis under a magnificent starry night. Listen and watch here a video fragment © Photo Laura Londono, 2025 © Photo Laura Londono, 2025 go to my website: https://giuseppegavazza.it/    

  AÉROPORTS Installation audiovisuelle dans le cadre du Colloque Ports et Portes Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle Grenier : Dimanche 8 septembre à partir de 8h30   AÉROPORTS est une installation Ambiance Spécifique que j'ai conçue et réalisée lors du colloque Ports et Portes 8-11 septembre 2024. Comme les fois précédentes à Cerisy, mon intervention est née de ma présence dans le château, suivant les interventions, vivant et échangeant avec les participants les moments, y compris conviviaux et informels, des journées passées ensemble. La Sérendipité - comme toujours - m'a guidée : « par hasard », j'avais à ma disposition une vingtaine de haut-parleurs portables (avec lesquels je travaille habituellement) et j'avais avec moi de minuscules leds clignotantes. J'ai récupéré les enregistrements audio que j'ai réalisés entre 2008 et 2024 dans 24 aéroports différents, dans 12 pays différents, et j...

  Thawing Dreams, voices are water Thawing Dreams, voices are water follows Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night and is the second chapter of a project realised during residencies at the Spitsbergen Artists Centre in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway in winter 2023 and summer 2024.  After the long night of the winter solstice, the second chapter of the Arctic adventure took place, as planned, on the long day of the summer solstice. Summer is here, and the icy landscape melts into sonorous rivulets of water dripping from the mountains and glaciers in a multitude of trickling, fragile streams, burrowing twisted canyons in the ice; flowing between coal-black, iron-red and multi coloured boulders immersed in the innumerable shades of green and brown of the musks dotted with the bright colours of minute flowers; roaring in the constant flush of the muddy Longyearelva, which rises from the ice of the Long...

  Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night   Frozen Dreams, Luminous Voices in the Night is the first chapter of a work-in-progress, ambience-specific, audio-visual installation. It is a project conceived and carried out during an artistic residency I did, together with photographer and videomaker Eugenio Pini, in the winter of 2023-2024 at the Spitsbergen Artists Center, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. In a dark and silent space, voices, diffused by portable loudspeakers anchored to colourful flashing balloons, narrate their dreams: inner memories reactivated when heard. The project is inspired by Les Paroles Gelées (The Frozen Words), a section of the fourth book (1552) of François Rabelais’s Gargantua et Pantagruel , which narrates that at the edge of the frozen sea, in winter, there was a great and bloody battle. The shouts, the cries, the slashing, the clashing, the neighing and all the ...