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Daniele Ghisi, An Experiment With Time
Video Installation and electronic music.
A project by DIVERTIMENTO ENSEMBLE and IRCAM – CENTRE POMPIDOU
Teaser:
“An Experiment With Time” (AEWT) is a project involving the creation of a piece for video and electronics, and culminating in a “live” version of it, for amplified ensemble, video and electronics.
The project is inspired by the book “An Experiment with Time”, by John William Dunne: linearity of time is a collateral event of consciousness, whereas, inside dreams, past and future coexist.
The video setup is made of three juxtaposed screens. The central screen represents the writing of the main character’s diary, and will be a journey across its reflexions and thoughts, spanning one full year, and looping seamlessly at the end. The other screens (only active in some specific sections of the video) suggest the presence of two “aliases” experiencing different temporalities (the left one looping through a single day, and the right one living a complete life).
The installation is a 46min – loop consisting of video and electronic music.
Daniele Ghisi comments on his project:
“An Experiment with Time” is probably the biggest artistic challenge I have faced up to now, both for its duration and for the effort it involved – as I am writing this note, I am still finishing working on the score for its live version.
It is, at present, the project about which I am most passionate: this is why I am extremely grateful to the Ulysses network and to the partners that have made this possible (first of all Ircam and Divertimento Ensemble). I am also extremely glad I had the chance to share this passion with many participants (first of all Luigi Acerbi and Paolo Puggioni) and with other festivals which have so kindly shown their interested in it.
Somehow, “An Experiment with Time” represents my widest attempt to think project-wise instead of piece-wise – and I find this line of thinking quite important, especially for contemporary music.”
december 12 2015 – 5 pm: opening
shows: 6 pm – 6.45 pm – 7.30 pm – 8.15 pm – 9.00 pm – 9.45 pm
december 13 2015
shows: 11.00 – 11.45 – 12.30 – 1.15 pm– 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm– 3.30 pm – 4.15 pm– 5.00 pm
Free entrance
Download the lirics: AEWT_script_EN
Live version – Rondò 2016
january 26, 8.30 pm, Teatro Litta
Corso Magenta 24 Milano
A project by DIVERTIMENTO ENSEMBLE and IRCAM – CENTRE POMPIDOU
www.anexperimentwithtime.com
Concept, music, video and animation
Daniele Ghisi
Freely inspired by the book
“An Experiment With Time”
by John William Dunne
An Ircam/Divertimento Ensemble production
Storyline and script
Daniele Ghisi
Luigi Acerbi
Paolo Puggioni
Script assistant
Maryam Babaei
Video assistant
Luca Morino
Graphic advisor
Davide Bordogna
The experiment cards are drawn by Luca Nava
Photo credits
Miroslav Barták
From Old Books (fromoldbooks.org),
Karl Jahnke (sillydragon.com)
Copies of the Illustrated London News shown by kind permission of Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library
Audio credits (from freesound.org): Trebblofang, empraetorius, HollowRiku, lucaslara, nebulousflynn, exterminat, Omar Alvarado, RutgerMuller, Runey, SunnySideSound, thavis360, stijn
Additional thanks to
Carlos Agon
Mattia Bergomi
Giovanni Bertelli
Aaron Einbond
Carla e Giorgio Felotti
Maria Giulia Ganassini
Jean-Louis Giavitto
Boris Labbé
Virgilio Maffeis and family
Yann Philippe
Andrea Rota
Christopher Trapani
Paul Slocum
Vincenzo Picariello
