[Leonard-Stage] ideas and next meeting

[Neil Leonard]

Hello class,

I am glad to see that you are finding ideas for palazzo Liviano!
I will have questions and comments on Thursday.
Also thank you Andrea, Antonio, Sara, Daniele, Marco B. and Perluigi  
for getting the ball rolling and sharing your proposals.

By the way, we will meet for the next two Thursdays. This week  
Professor Bernardini and I have done everything possible to secure  
Aula 9, but space is a serious problem at the Conservatory. If for  
any reason Aula 9 is not available, then we will find an alternate  
spot. It could be a nearby cafe that you suggest, but it is better to  
avoid the arm-wrestling over space and go straight to our work.

Thank you Andrea for taking the lead and being a spokes person for  
the group. I will offer a few quick thoughts off the top of my head...

1. It will make a huge difference WHO the voice belongs to. Is it the  
first woman to get at degree from the U of Padova (as you probably  
know this was the first woman in the world to get a degree)?

2. Why is she crying - is it my Romanian cleaning lady next door who  
cannot bring her child to live with her and crys when she sees 6 year  
old boys?

3. Given the fact that only men are 'supposed' to experience this  
piece, are there other complementary sound diffusions that we can do  
in conjunction with this piece.

4. I don't know La cicatrice interieure, but if you have a DVD that  
you can cue up in class, we can look an excerpt.

Other comments/questions will follow, but as we have discussed all  
the details, both artistic and mechanical should be examined to make  
this piece more than a college exercise.

Also, here is a link to a recent show in Boston called Getting  
Emotional that used the theme of crying:

http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Archive/ 
GettingEmotional

A presto, Neil

Neil Leonard
Associate Professor
Music Synthesis Department
Berklee College of Music
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On May 8, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Andrea Liuzza wrote:

> hi dear class.
> this is the idea for the final project we discussed today. it could  
> be developed with other similar sound-installations in other  
> similar locations, if some of us is interested in. but most of all  
> it NEEDS A GOOD TITLE. the title i thought about could work only if  
> we decided to use Nico's voice from the movie La cicatrice  
> interieure by Philippe Garrel: in that case the title could be La  
> voice interieure. but i'll be very happy to use Daria's voice (and  
> actress ability) too!
>
>
> PROPOSAL FOR A SOUND INSTALLATION
> who: antonio barbalace, sara battagin, andrea liuzza, daniele  
> pasetto, daria trevisan [dario andreella? marco braggion? do you  
> want to gather?]
> where: mans' toilet in palazzo Liviano
> what: some girl's voice softly crying and sobbing from inside one  
> of the four doors in mans' toilet. you can try to open the door and  
> see what's going on, but the door is locked. the voice become an  
> invisible-audible presence, disturbing the intimacy of the place  
> with her grief.
> what we need: just a cd player with batteries and a little case.  
> and the key of the door.
> bibliography: Schaeffer, Acousmatics. the basic idea was to lock a  
> door between a sound and its source.
>
>
>
> andrea liuzza
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