Friday, 24 February 2012

Semafori/Lightouses - a parte of Lighthouses Relay at Folkestone Fringe is back at Bergen, Norway



Semafori/Lightouses - a part of Lighthouses Relay at Folkestone Fringe 20122 - is back in Bergen, Norway.
I am now presenting the installation in my studio as a part of my residence in AiR Project (Artist in Residence) of USF, Bergen, January-February 2012.

I have, in the frame of same concept, created a new audio work, Semafori2/Sirene, a sound installation running at the same time. From Tursday February 23 to Sunday February 26.

You can download pdf detailed info here:


here some info on local Norwegian newsletters and web sites:



Giuseppe Gavazza
Semafori II: Sireneat USF-AiR Studio2, Bergen February 23-26 2012
siren |ˈsʌɪr(ə)nː| : noun
1 a device that makes a loud prolonged sound as a signal or warning : ambulance sirens.
2 Greek Mythology each of a number of women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors onto rocks.
• a woman who is considered to be alluring or fascinating but also dangerous in some way.
semaphore |ˈsɛməfɔː| noun
a system of sending messages by holding the arms or two flags or poles in certain positions according to an alphabetic code.”
(New Oxford American Dictionary)
English: lighthouse Italian: faro French: phare
Italian : semaforo English : traffic light French : feu
Semaforo comes from Greek σεμα (signal, meaning) e φερω (in this case: to bring).
About Semafori (Lighthouse Relay, Folkestone Fringe Festival, August 2011) I wrote:
Every lighthouse has its own “voice”: his simple rhythm is its name and declare the position in which it is. Lighthouses are visual sirens (and in Italian sirena means both siren and mermaid), are visual and musical communicators for the navigators.
Sirens are warning audible signals: in the fog and in the dark for example.
Every ship has its own voice in its siren. The voices of mermaids bewitch.


Semafori, as a project, was thought up at Chateau de La Napoule during an Artist Residence in February 2000 and was realised at Folkestone Fringe in 2011. During the same residence at La Napoule I planned a project titled Sirene: mermaids vox captivate along the years, inexorable.During the Artist Residence here in Bergen AiR-USF, January and February 2012, I can listen and see the Hurti Gruten ship arriving every day at Bergen, south terminal harbour of the cruise from north.Arriving (almost) always they greet the town with a 4 sounds hello! From Studio 2 at USF, Georgernesverft 12, Bergen (few metres from HurtiGruten terminal wharf) I have recorded the hellos! of all the eleven Hurti Gruten ships. I have mounted these recordings in a unique audio files: in chronological order (as recorded) every ship punctuates the minutes of the 12 minutes long file. 


 0'00'' - Silence
1'00'' MS Nordnorge recorded on 1/23/2012 
2'00'' MS Kong Harald recorded on 1/29/2012 
3'00'' MS Vesterålen recorded on 2/1/2012 
4'00'' MS Nordkapp recorded on 2/2/2012 
5'00'' MS Richard With recorded on 2/6/2012 
6'00'' MS Polarlys recorded on 2/15/2012 
7'00'' MS Finnmarken recorded on 2/16/2012 
8'00'' MS Nordstjernen recorded on 2/18/2012 
9'00'' MS Trollfjord recorded on 2/19/2012 
10'00'' MS Lofoten recorded on 2/21/2012 
11'00'' MS Midnatsol recorded on 2/22/2012 
12'00'' - STOP 

 I have then performed - night time - this 12' audio file in the corridor, 3rd floor, out of the door of Studio2, with two loudspeakers, adding a double delay (of about 7 and 12 seconds, a simple Pure Data patcher) to create a slow audio feedback reinforcing more and more the natural resonances of the corridor (obviously the idea comes from Alvin Lucier's masterpiece I am sitting in a room, 1969).When the 12' sound finish, in about 2 minutes, the resonances fade out to silence.I have recorded all this 14' audio performance (on four channels with a Zoom H2 handy digital audio recorder) and I will diffuse it using a portable battery powered low power audio system (an iPod mp3 player and a Mitone MitSp20 stereo travel speakers) placed in the same place (close to the roof, on the door of Studio 2) of the recording digital recorder.

G.G. February 22nd 2012.

Warm thanks to USF AiR Bergen and Folkestone Fringe Festival
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Friday, 30 September 2011

Semafori all A/V in one page


Giuseppe Gavazza
SEMAFORI

Lighthouse Relay
Folkestone Triennial 2011
Folkestone Fringe

8 channels audio & video installation
@
The Bank
Folkestone
10 Aug - 14 Aug 2011

clicking on each video you will see & listen the AV 8 voices polyphony.

Position of videos in this page simulate approx the location of 8 a/v equipments in the real installation at
The Bank
46 Tontine Street, CT20 1JU
Folkestone
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Friday, 26 August 2011

Semafori audio all around

click here to listen Semafori all around

this is a short version of 8 stereo-headphones-re-mixed audio tracks of Semafori LightHouseRelay installation at The Bank, Folkestone Fringe Triennial, Augusto 10-14 2011.
The 8 audio tracks are the original one of the 8 video screen and loudspekers. There is here a simulation ov moving around in a circle, regulare movement adding its own rhythm to the different one of the 8 lighthouses voices.
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Sunday, 21 August 2011

Sad seagulls



In Italy in 1972 had a great commercial success a piece on a vinyl 45 r.p.m : the performer was il Conte Federico Monti Arduini, whose art name was Il guardiano del faro (The lighthouse keeper), the title of the piece was Il gabbiano infelice (The sad seagull). Was the first commercial piece played on a synthesizer (was the glorious Moog) and the first disc of electronic music I had in my home.
Only later I discover the melody of Il gabbiano infelice was Amazing Grace.

I lost this old disc but I remember clearly the vinyl's scratch and the amazing new sound of the Moog.
Listening at the Sarah's scraping sampling and former lighthouse keeper Dave Mapp's recorded voice immediately I remembered all these things: the rotating vinyl scratch, the old melody, the new electronic sound, the lighthouse and its keeper.

I have simply overlaid the full Sarah Nielsen sampling, 3 (of 4) phrases of the original recording of Il gabbiano infelice and Dave's recorded voice, mixing the levels, giving a 45 rpm rotation at Sarah scratching sounds and filtering Dave's voice with a "round close stones space like".

The title of this sample is Sad Seagulls.

G.G. August 10th, 2011

ASCOLTA Sad seagulls
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Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Semafori: n.5. Night off/on _________ Day

These are freeze frames from AV installation Semafori




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On this page lighthouse n.5, off/on during the night and during the day



See other 7 Semafori (night & day) on this blog archive
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here a short A/V sample from Semafori n.5




Semafori is a project for Folkestone Fringe 2011, Lighthouses Relay.

the concept

Every lighthouse has its own voice: its rhythm and colour declare its location. Lighthouses are visual sirens: in Italian sirena means both siren and mermaid. During my residence in 2000 at La Napoule Art Foundation I filmed the eight lighthouses I could see from my room: an eight voice visual choir.

I have created a synchronised artificial audio to reveal each lighthouse's voice, transforming this luminous choir into an audible polyrhythmic one. This has been overlaid onto the original natural soundscape recorded in 2000. For the installation in the Bank Gallery each video with its accompanying audio will be transmitted through eight separate screens in the similar silent and dark space.

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