Il Cielo di Pietra
Il Cielo di Pietra is a live cinema performance in tribute to the seventh art: music and images meet and react to each other in an immersive and multidisciplinary show. The visual materials, from the archive of the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, were chosen from works by George Melies, Segundo de Chomon and J.C. Mol. In homage to these pioneers of cinematic experimen- tation of the early twentieth century, videos are processed according to contemporary aes- thetics through animation and visual processing. Thanks to the most modern multimedia tech- nologies, the original music - performed live as in the first cinemas - influences and interacts with the projected fragments: sometimes the video fragments are projected starting from the played notes, other times the songs accompany a succession of images. The result is an audio- visual performance that manages to get the audience excited and involved, as happened on the occasion of the first film screening of the Lumiere Brothers when, according to legend, some spectators escaped from the room afraid of being overwhelmed by the train arriving on the screen.
Il Cielo di Pietra is inspired by the homonymous Cosmicomics of Italo Calvino (also known as "The Other Eurydice") and retraces the stages of the reckless journey of Eurydice who, attract- ed by the song of Orpheus, would have left the center of the Earth to get lost in the chaotic and teeming world of the Earth's crust. With a choice as courageous as it is winning, the artists do not provide precise narrative indications and leave the search for their interpretation to the imagination of the public: the result is a show that deals with issues such as freedom of choice,
the relationship between woman and man, the delicate balance between introversion and ex- troversion and the innate desire that constantly leads us to search for new worlds.
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Duo Bottasso & Simone Sims LongoAuthor
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Eye FilmFootage archive
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Cosenude Media Projectsstoryline
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Alice Gallouinvideo animation
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Project Type:Experimental, Web / New Media, Other
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Genres:Live Cinema, Experimental, Live Music, Electronics, Folk Music
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Completion Date:October 14, 2022
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Country of Origin:Italy, Netherlands
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Premio Nazionale Città di Loano per la musica tradizionale italianaLoano
July 25, 2019
Premio Nazionale Città di Loano per la musica tradizionale italiana
Duo Bottasso works mainly in the field of world music. The duo is always looking for a meeting point between their roots as folk musicians and their interest in contemporary and improvised music. All these combined with their brothe- rhood and the desire of keeping alive the traditions of their native land.
Simone Sims Longo is a composer and performer of electronic music. He is interested in creating and processing sound in the digital domain focused on timbre exploration with different techniques: physical modeling synthesis, sound granulation, FM synthesis, and digital sound deconstruction. In his works he often uses a multi-level iteration of sound samples, investigating asynchronous polyrhythmic texture changes.
Duo Bottasso & Simone Sims Longo won in 2019 the “Premio Loano per la Musica Tradizionale Italiana”: <<every- thing has begun from a button accordion and a violin, with the dancing traditional music of the Occitan valleys of Italy. The Duo Bottasso has grown up, studied and performed with musicians from all over the world and extended the sound of their instruments with electronics, until they met the sound designer Simone Sims Longo. If this is the folk music of the future, we’re looking forward to it. >>
As a trio, they performed in MACRO - Museo Arte Contemporanea (Roma), Torino Fringe Festival, Festival Ethnos (Na- ples), Kalternpop (Bolzano), Alpentoene (CH).