A Balloon for… Santarcangelo

I design a sound intervention for the old water tower of Santarcangelo. 40th edition of the Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri, 11th July, h:19-22:30, via Bellaere, Santarcangelo – Italy. Link: Video and Pictures posted on Abitare

a-balloon-for-a-water-tower illustration © violaraho.com

Residency at FlorenceArtFactory, Florence, Italy

The project A Balloon for a Room has been selected for the FAF’s artist-in-residence programme. The project premieres at Florence’s Dentro! Festival on 17 April 2010 at 21:00, Via Righi 28/30 Sesto Fiorentino (FI)

Residency at FlorenceArtFactory

Sound on Scene Workshop at Centro di Palmetta, Terni, Italy

I lead my listening workshop at Centro di Palmetta, Terni, 5 > 11 April. The workshop is part of the Nutrimenti Festival’s teaching program.

Sound Intervention Workshop, Annecy, France

Invited by Annecy’s Art Academy and Professor Marc Giloux, I give a Sound Intervention workshop from 4 -6 January 2010.
After an introduction to sound interventionist practice and interrogative design, students design their own urban and rural sound interventions.

sound-intervention-workshop

UltraSound at Raum, Bologna, Italy

On 16 December at 20:00 I present my ethnographic research on the acoustic condition of Italian football stadia. Featuring audio and video field recordings, my work documents football supporters’ sonic participation in football games. The Same Moment, Raum, via Cà Selvatica 4/D, Bologna.

UltraSound[01] at Raum

Sound on Scene Workshop, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

On 5 December 2009 I present a sound-space workshop at University of Exeter’s Drama Department. Part of both the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, the workshop is given under the supervision of Head of Department David Roesner.

Sound and Dramaturgy Talk at Short Formats, Milan, Italy

As an invited guest speaker at the contemporary Italian choreography festival, Short Formats, I address the role of sound in dramaturgic creation. Focussing specifically on how sound diffusion, media systems and sound spatialization help aesthetic research acquire coherence and formal meaning, the talk takes place on Saturday, 5 December 2009 at  10:00 am, Crt, V.le E.Alemagna 6, Milano.

Short Formats

The Sound of Normalization, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Don’t miss my seminar, The Sound of Normalization: Audience Participation and Crowd Regulation in Contemporary Italian Stadia. Given to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, the talk is open to the public and takes place 16 November 2009, 16:00 – 18:00, Amory Building, Room 315.

The Sound of Normalization

Visiting Professor Tia DeNora’s SocArts group

Joining the Sociology of Arts PhD students group, I am a guest researcher in University of Exeter’s  Sociology/Philosophy Department during the Autumn 2009 term. Continuing my ethnographic work on Italian football supporters, I work with other emerging scholars and Professor Tia DeNora.

Sound-space design for Tabula Rasa, Terni, Italy

I create the sound-space environment and sound diffusion for Tabula Rasa, a performative project by Leonardo Delogu. The piece can be seen 20 > 26 September 2009 at the contemporary arts festival Es.Terni.
Links: Es.Terni09, Project page

Tabula Rasa photos © laura-arlotti.com