Maloviento by ERNESTO LONGOBARDI + DEMETRIO CECCHITELLI

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The research behind the collaboration of Italian sound artists Ernesto Longobardi and Demetrio Cecchitelli crosses the ontology of the relationship between physiology, poetics and imaginative interpretation. Placed between sound art and minimalism, 'Maloviento' (Strzybog) consists of four specific windows in reductionist, sometimes subtractive, or purely acoustic and organic modes.

A listening environment and space considered as sensitive perception of sub-oscillations and white noise, instrumental intervention (transverse flute, harmonica, voice, synthesis) and digital processing. Just in the bare compositional structure between sub-oscillations and white noise the voice acts without ever being first instrument and investigated with precise analogisms: windbreath-voice.

A giving voice to the voice itself, using the instruments to hollow out its origin that resides in the feelings and affections of the soul, trying to capture its significant vibrations. The two ask themselves: what is the sound of voice on a windy day? To then extend the sound analysis and composition where the whole is the voice.

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Narration of a translucent reality
turbulent and stormy sound image
where in the midst of the winds
the whispered word becomes breath
springing language and song
sonic breath
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ERNESTO LONGOBARDI is a multidisciplinary research artist with particular attention to sound and electro-acoustics of which he experiments dynamism in contrast to a static fixity of image. He works mainly in the field of Sound Art. He also creates
visual-sound installations and live performances including at Arsenale di Venezia in 2015 and at Fortezza di Livorno, awarded with the Combat Prize, Jury Mention in 2016.

2024 saw Longobardi's installation/performances 'Diapnonie K' presented at IDRA Theatre space MO.CA (Brescia, Italy) and 'Diaphonie K∞' at FREI RAUM (Berlin, Germany).

His works have been published international labels, including LINE (US), Falt (France), Manyfeetunder (Italy), and Nebensound (Italy).

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DEMETRIO CECCHITELLI is a musician/sound artist whose practice is applied in the contexts of live performance, installation, radio, and the audiovisual. Over the last decade, Cecchitelli's works have been published worldwide and have been presented in venues, festivals, platforms, and centers for art and sound.

Focused on principles of semantic interpretation, ontology, and imaginative poetics, his research is based on various methods of electronic transformation and instrumentation that coexist as a device of the creative and compositional process, giving a strong combination of sonic memory and deep listening as an integral part of a spontaneous plastic language.

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Richard Chartier's LINE publishes editions documenting compositional & installation works by international sound artists & composers exploring the aesthetics of minimalism.

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