The second edition of Spellbound explores the sonic memory of landscapes, as a trace of the relationships between humans and non-human beings.
• Saturday 27, PAV - Living Art Park. The festival opens with Rosso Polare, Giada Pignotti, HMOT and Dania presenting a collective electroacoustic improvisation for a multi-channel system commissioned by Almare in collaboration with the Swiss residency La Becque. Later that night, Desert Songs will take place, a sleeping concert commissioned by Almare from the Congolese-Belgian sound artist Nkisi: the research behind Desert Songs draws on historical accounts of people who, having fallen asleep in the desert, experienced auditory hallucinations. Also: the Egyptian author and political exile in Germany, Haytham El Wardany, will read selected passages from his Book of Sleep; participants will be able to explore the PAV on a guided night-time walk; the Altalena collective will run a dream-like workshop on polyphasic sleep, using techniques designed to induce lucid dreaming
• Sunday 28, Arboretum of the Botanical Garden. A conversation with Nkisi, the protagonist of the previous night’s sleeping concert; listening session with Luigi Monteanni of Artetetra Records and Babau, sound artist and researcher, whose work addresses noise and horror as fundamental characteristics of Indonesian sound culture; performance lecture by Stas Shärifullá, sound artist and researcher, who will discuss his method of transmitting traditional Bashkir indigenous knowledge based on a methodology he calls resynthesis. To round off the event, a DJ set by Artetetra at the Imbarchino del Valentino
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