Something new, Friday November 21th 2014: about "Banalità del male" at Musica Viva Festival Lisboa

My composition for stereo audio diffusion "Banalità del male" will be presented  on November 23rd, 24th and 25th  at Soundwalk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis, in the contest of Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon, at  O’culto da Ajuda 

page at my website: http://www.giuseppegavazza.it/riproduzione/3.html

Here some information and the score

Composer: Giuseppe Gavazza

Title of the piece : Banalità del male

Duration: 3'54''

Audio format : aiff stereo 44,1 Khz 16 bit

date of composition : 2001

Banalita? del male (Banality of Evil) take its title from Hannah Arendt and uses 5 sound fragments collected from historical radio and field recordings:

1 – Bell tolls, Lausanne, 29.03.1981. 0’14’’

2 – Benito Mussolini, announce of war declaration, Rome, 10.06.1940. 0’46’’

3 - Mao Zedong, speech at the Chinese people advisory congress, 15.06.1949. 0’40’’

4 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, speech for military law order, Poland, 1981. 1’02’’

5 – Fragments from: Radio France Culture, Radio Libre, Auschwitz. 0’22’’

In a simple mixing with no sound treatment, the voices build a simple antiphonary melting in the ambient sounds of the radio and field recordings. This sad counterpoint is open by funerary bell tolls and finishes in a melancholic music and a gentle bird’s song.

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(Giuseppe Gavazza)