Costantino Rizzuti is a composer and sound artist. He is author of pieces of acousmatic music and live electronics, sound and audio-visual installations and live performances presented in national and international conferences, festivals and exhibitions. He graduated at Conservatory S. Giacomantonio in Cosenza in Electronic Music. In June 2012, He won the IX edition of the national award for conservatory students “Premio delle Arti”, section Music and new technologies with the composition Advaita, for flute and live electronics. He is the founder of Artis Lab an electronic music studio in Cosenza devoted to the design and construction of new experimental electronic musical instruments.
Artist Location: Cosenza, Italy
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PARTICIPATION
soundscapes On-site June 1st and online June 9th
SNR II
SNR is the acronym for Signal to Noise Ratio which in electronics and engineering is a numerical quantity that relates the power of the useful signal to that of the noise in any information processing system. SNR is a series of acousmatic compositions that explore the relationship between sound and noise in the context of electronic composition and according to our way of orienting listening in the presence of sound forms structured not following a musical logic, but evoking artificial soundscapes and organized sounds. SNR II was born from the manipulation of analogue musical materials recorded on cassettes starting from an experimental musical instrument made with three strings stretched on a piece of wood and a piezoelectric disc as a contact microphone. The other sounds, wind instruments and percussion, dialogue with the sound of the strings to create pre-musical sound events based on the exploration of ancestral forms of gestures and sonic behaviors.
Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio I
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio I is a soundscape composition aimed at provide an aural representation of a religious celebration. The recordings used for the composition were recorded on February 12, 2020 during the annual celebrations of the feast of the Madonna del Pilerio, patron saint of the city of Cosenza. The rite of celebration includes several sound elements both musical and non musical: the Rosary, the prayer also sung and accompanied by the sound of the organ, the music of the band.
A very long crescendo create an emotional condition that culminates with the exit of the statue from the Cathedral: words, song and choral prayers are located in the low intensity range. At the other extreme of the dynamic range, the fireworks mark the dynamic climax with their loud intensity. The sound of the church bells approaching the passage of the procession and the applause and shouts of the people create a periodic background of medium dynamic intensity.
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio II
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio II is a soundscape composition aimed at provide an aural representation of the celebrations of the Madonna del Pilerio in Cosenza. The recordings used for the composition were recorded on February 12, 2020 during the annual celebrations of the feast of the Madonna del Pilerio patron saint of the city of Cosenza.
An entire community meets in the Cathedral on the occasion of this heartfelt religious celebration. The auditory landscape that characterizes this event is made off of words, the Rosary, the prayer also sung and accompanied by the sound of the organ. The rite of celebration includes several sound elements both musical and non musical creating an emotional condition that culminates with the exit of the statue from the Cathedral.
Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th
Still (moving) life
Still (moving) life is a silent video that elaborates the still life tradition through the use of moving images. Flowers, plants and trees are the subject of the filming and their slow or fast movement becomes the object of observation by the viewer. The paradox of representation seeks to inspire a reflection on our way of observing and considering what is natural and what is artificial. The objective of the work is to tend to suggest new ways of relating to the elements of the Nature in which we live.
You, my only love
Two tiny human figures from a distance exchange amorous effusions on a beach during a rainy summer afternoon. This is how the creation of mankind as told by the Bible will have happened? Human beings, nothing compared to the vastness of the World in which they live, when they can find the love that inspires and guides their lives can produce forces capable of changing the entire Universe. Dedicated to all couples who love each other regardless of sex, race, religion, social, economic, political or ethnic membership.
Recitation of Karawane by Hugo Ball
with Ernesto Orrico (voice actor)
Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020:
Trame
Trame is a composition dedicated to the Kurdish people and to all the peoples forced to live in Resistance. It was born in 2017 as soundtrack of an installation result of an artistic laboratory intended for migrants and asylum seekers. The voices of the participants were recorded, processed and included in the composition. Among these, the voices of two Kurdish migrants who in addition to telling their own story have also sung their traditional song were particularly used.
If our body, like silkworms, left a small colored filament, our movement and action over time would create a dense texture, an intricate and colorful textile. Thus the Mediterranean sea would become an immense colored tapestry that would tell the passage, the joy, the pain and even the death of many human beings on the run. These are the “Trame” that this work wants to represent through environmental sounds, voices and the sound of a flute to create an auditory narration that, hopefully, will fascinate and also make us reflect on today’s dramas.
Currently the composition was made in the form of a 10 minutes two-channels stereo track. For the presentation in the soundpedro festival I propose to create a multichannel playback system (4,6 or 8 Ch) made using cassette players, walkman or any other reproduction device. The composition was designed for a cyclical reproduction as the materials used in the beginning and in the end are very similar. The duration of the work can be extended in the phase of realization of the distribution of sounds on multiple channels by creating interweaving of sound materials that change over time.
The first version made in 2017 was significantly changed in the last months. The first execution of the new version of the piece will be made during the soundpedro festival.