PIPPO by PIPPO is a conceptual band from DUBAIS

Finding PIPPO: a generative opera

Through co-authoring an article about the Circola Arci network in Italy and the intersections of art/ activism that happens in these socialist private clubs I came to the writing of Alfredo Cospito. The central focus was on the organization’s show of solidarity with Anarchist Alfredo Cospito, who is currently being detained in a super max prison system. During his time in Prison Cospito has written letters, essays and texts that are self-distributed in print and online. To gain some understanding of his writing, I used online translators and ChatGPT to translate some of these texts. Concurrently, I started experimenting with generative music approaches, which also led to collaborations with musical AI freeware. During this process, I started to think about the poetry/ prose lost in the process, but also the cognisance gained through this intervention with AI. How do I as a non-Italian speaking person understand/ communicate/ empathize with actions of anti-fascism within this context? More importantly, how could this work lend itself into a methodology for performance and composition as a transformative practice? How could I do similar interventions with different thinkers/ ideologies?

Finding PIPPO: a generative opera is a multi-phase music/research/ performance piece that aim to break up the boundaries of space, audience, and generative approaches as methods of participation and performance. The first phase of this project is this work in progress presented as a part of a week-long residency in the Digital Humanities lab Sussex.

Tracklist

1.	#1	1:32

2.	#2	0:56

3.	#3	1:05

4.	#4	1:02

5.	#5	2:05

Credits

released June 6, 1966

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