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  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 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. I have composed a short piece for guqin for the concert performed in the living room of the Château de Cerisy by Lin Chen and Sylvain Denoux.  In the same concert Lin Chen presented 8th century poems by the poet who is the subject of her doctoral thesis at the Université de la Méditerranée-Aix-Marseille-II. I deci...

  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 ...

  Abbiamo bisogno dei vostri sogni   We need your dreams (scroll down/click)   Nel mese luglio 2021, nell’ambito del convegno  L’Enchantement qui réviént  svoltosi negli spazi magici del Castello di Cerisy ho proposto e realizzato  Entre son et songe: Dream’s Cloud ,  installazione visiva e sonora, poi utilizzata per la copertina del volume degli atti. Nella proposta scrivevo: "Nello spirito delle Parole Gelate di Rabelais (1) , appesi a palloncini colorati e luminosi, una dozzina di altoparlanti portatili diffonderanno di giorno e di notte, voci che raccontano i loro sogni; voci anonime raccolte prima e durante la residenza che saranno diffuse solo nei modi e in occasione dell’installazione." Ho raccolto al momento 120 sogni raccontati in francese, italiano, inglese, cinese, coreano, tunisino, marocchino, spagnolo, portoghese. Sogni, parte di un archivio intimo e privato, diffusi discretamente solo in occasione dell'installazione.  In collab...

  Ears Wide Shut: nuova cartografia dell’invisibile COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL   EXPÉRIENCES SENSIBLES FABRIQUE ET CRITIQUE DES TERRITOIRES EN MUTATION 6-7-8 novembre 2023, INALCO, Paris   Ears Wide Shut: nuova cartografia dell’invisibile Music & video performance Giuseppe GAVAZZA & Simone SIMS LONGO  Auditorium Inalco, Tuesday November 7, 5:30 p.m.   Tout comme la carte n’est pas le territoire (Bateson, 1989), la partition n’est pas la réalité de l’écoute musicale : mais où est l’écriture musicale dans la musique numérique, où le compositeur - qui est presque toujours aussi interprète de sa propre musique - utilise souvent le même « outil » pour composer et interpréter ? L’outil qui répond au nom de « ordinateur » peut-il être considéré, en fait, comme un instrument de musique ? Si une partition pour instruments acoustiques peut être conçue (en renversant les termes) comme une cartogr...

Petraria: valorizzazione percettiva dei borghi italiani. Un progetto di indagine https://www.paesaggiosonoro.it/soundstainability/program.html Open Petraria schema audio download PDF Petraria is an investigation project active since 2021 at expresses itself in the debate on the potential of new strategic perspectives for living and for the usability of places for collective use and sociality. Through the focus on perceptive enhancement, Petraria intends to disseminate the theme of the analysis of urban spaces in the so-called inland areas. (Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale, 2014). The field of investigation to date has covered the municipalities of Novara di Sicilia, Polizzi Generosa, Petralia Soprana, Roccavaldina and Monforte San Giorgio, located in the Sicilian region between Palermo and Messina at an altitude ranging from 300 to 1100 m ASL. The research was based on a detailed description of the territory under examination, considering its perceptive, historica...

  Goccia a goccia: rituali di ascolto e pratiche di ri-composizione Born from the paper Ascolto il tuo cuore, città: audio testimonianze al tempo del COVID-19 , presented at Sounds of the Pandemic International online conference, December 16-17 2020,  Goccia a goccia: rituali di ascolto e pratiche di ri-composizione  (Drop by drop: listening rituals and re-composition  practices) is an article written for the volume :  Suono bene comune: Riflessioni, esperienze e progetti dalla pandemia , Squilibri Edizioni, 2023. https://soundsofthepandemic.wordpress.com   https://soundsofthepandemic.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sotp_programme-book-of-abstracts_8.3.pdf https://www.squilibri.it/catalogo/come-suona-la-toscana/antonella-dicuonzo-francesco-giomi-ludovico-peroni-suono-bene-comune-511   https://hal.science/hal-04786132   go to my website: https://giuseppegavazza.it/  

  Medley Title:  Medley   Instrument: GENESIS sounds, field recordings and old radio broadcasts, dispersed around 44 loudspeakers Duration: 12'02" Year of composition: 2022  Property, publisher: Author  First performance: Nysal Sound-Dome,  Danish Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, October 26, 2022   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 broadcasts from 1901 to 2020, which I co...

  Concert Asymmetric Thought In the frame of the festival EASTN-DC, Music on the Wedge Concert presentation of the DVD-CD Asymmetric Thought, Da Vinci Classic Davide Ficco, guitar Cuneo, Conservatorio di Musica, Dipartimento METS Saturday April 9h, 2022. Sala Mosca, Via Roma 19, Cuneo https://eastndc.acroe-ica.org/tour/music-on-the-wedge-2022/ https://www.metscuneo.it/2022/03/28/mets-fest-2022/ https://davinci-edition.com/product/c00318/ go to my website: https://giuseppegavazza.it/

  Numeri Title: Numeri. For one speaking voice in numerous loudspeakers Instrument: loudspeakers choir of variable number of channels Duration: depending from numer of loudspeakers Year of composition: 2015 Property, publisher: Author  First performance: Version for 24 loudspeakers, duration 10'00". O'culto da Ajuda 24 channels acousmonium, Miso Pusic Festival, Lisbon, November 12, 2021 Loudspeaker is one of the few words that retain same etymological structure in several European languages: altoparlante altifalante loudspeaker haut-parleur lautsprecher luidspreker høyttaler μεγάφωνο hoparlör altavoz If the origin of the world has been the word (In principio erat verbum) it is easy to imagine a loudspeaker as a thing that speaks and to consider an orchestra of loudspeakers as a choir or a crowd of speaking voices, each from his/her own place. The possibilities are multiple combining physical reality (the speakers and their fixed position in space) with sonorous reality con...

Giuseppe Gavazza Dreams Cloud A bit in the spirit of Rabelais' Paroles gelées ,  but without the fighting (make dreams, not war!).  Attached to luminous balloons, I install a dozen pocket loudspeakers scattered around the garden, which will broadcast voices narrating their dreams.  During the first installations, at the Château de Cerisy-la Salle in July and August 2021, I collected more than eighty dreams told by voices speaking in French, Italian, English, Chinese, Korean, Tunisian, Spanish.   The collection of dreams continues with new calls for new opportunities. The dreams, part of this intimate and private archive of mine, will only be unveiled on the occasions of the installation but not shared in any other ways.  CALL FOR DREAMS Send me a recording in which you narrate your dreams: any language is good for dreaming it's not necessary that the recording is of high quality: it's ok an MP3 recording or other compressed format made with a portable phone....

  Radio Wega B-AIR Titolo:  Radio Wega B-AIR Audio & multisensorial installation, site (a)specific e time delayed Materials: modified vintage valve radio, Mp3 programmed audio player, proximity sensor  Anno: 2021 Durata: undetermined First performance: Port Bou, B-AIR Symposium , September 2021 Technical realisation by Alessandro De Cecco   Radio Wega: B-AIR is an old valve radio I inherited from my grandmother. When someone approaches it, it turns on and transmits radio broadcasts from years gone by. https://b-air.infinity.radio/en/sound-art-plus/radio-wega/   Radio Wega is a modified analogue-digital hybrid radio: instead of scrolling through radio wave frequencies, the tuning knob controls a scan between recordings of radio broadcasts of different periods, collected in a playlist arranged chronologically following a palimpsest. Radio Wega: B-AIR navigates through the waves and becomes a s...