Daria Baiocchi is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative, information and perception, combining sound with visual art. Through investigative research, she considers the ways media frameworks construct memory and inform discursive practices around culture, time and human rights.
She achieved an MA in piano, an MA in classical composition and an MA in electronic music. She earned her degree in Classical Literature from the University of Bologna (Italy).
She’s main Professor of Harmony and Music Analysis at “G.B.Pergolesi” Fermo Conservatory of Music and Sound Design Professor in Macerata Academy of Fine Arts.
Artist Location: Aascoli Piceno, Italy
PARTICIPATION
soundscapes On-site & Online June 7th
Theta grows as a sound that takes care of itself, takes energy and transform it, changes shape, moves towards entropy but returns on its centrality as a founding element of its acoustic life. The path that it takes could be direct or indirect but the thing that characterizes it is the return to life. In the silence, defined directional sounds stand out, overlapping, sliding, chasing each other and expanding in different registers, creating formal tensive architectures and drawing imaginary landscapes in chiaroscuro in which the pointillistic elements and the sound bands define arches of heavenly or infernal cloisters surrounded by sometimes smooth, sometimes historiated trellises. The parameter of time becomes a parchment on which a spatialization is carved that illuminates and sets sound events characterized by their own virtual autonomy, sound events that whisper, that pass through us, that leave us.
Audioscapes On-site June 3rd and online June 11th
Codex
— Dedicated to Alan Turing and all genius minds who saved lives —
SYNOPSIS:
Alan Turing had a brilliant mind who changed history. This guy was not like everyone else, because he lived off mathematics.This piece has been organized in three main sections: A-B-A’ with two rythmical bridges between B and A’. During the sound manipulation I created soundscapes that belong to mechanical analogic noises and, referring to the context of the war in which Turing operated, of planes and pilots’ voices. The central rhythmic part intends to re-propose the birth of the computer. This piece is in Googlemaps in Bletchley Park, well known as X Station,where Turing was working.
Plasma
The creative idea for this piece comes from the word “Plasma” that is often called the “Fourth State of Matter”. Plasma is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, a sufficient number to affect its electrical properties and behavior. Plasma also refers to the liquid component of blood that holds the blood cells in suspension. Energy, thunder and blood inspired my composition process.