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Sinestesia Eco

Sinestesia Eco

Historical materials for the work: text, photographs, audio and video when available.

Roberto Pugliese

Sinestesia ECO metal, metal wires, waterproof speakers, multichannel audio system, software that manages an artificial intelligence that uses machine learning

curated by Silvia Salvati

2021

Sinestesia Eco was born from the desire to create a work that can "amplify" and share the musical activities that take place in the new Study Center on Historical Keyboards in Saluzzo.

Thanks to a software created ad hoc in collaboration with M ° Francesco Abbrescia who manages an artificial neural network that "studies" scores by authors such as Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti and Händel and through a machine learning process, the software that animates the opera will automatically compose an unpublished variation of a piece every day that will be performed at 13:00. The same software, every day at 18:00, will develop an electronic sound carpet, that is a sound that will have numerous micro-variations within it. In this way the same work will create a bridge between tradition and the musical present using different styles, methods and timbres.

In this way, the audio part of the installation will always be different and will develop in symbiosis with the artistic-musical activity of the Center.

The different and multiple sound reproductions representing the vibrating strings of the work will be diffused through 17 outdoor loudspeakers, suspended on the facade of the Centro Studi and mounted in a tensile structure made with harmonic steel cables: the same metal used for the realization of the strings. musical instruments, such as, for example, pianos and strings. The cables will be spaced and arranged on the facade in a grid whose shape simultaneously evokes the internal structure of a piano and the staff.

The work, as a soundboard of the composition activities of the Study Center, aims to create a dialogue between past and present, giving new life to the modal and tonal music of some of the leading composers who have contributed to the formation of the Western musical tradition; authors, who still today offer their notes as a starting point to amplify the possibilities of composition and vibrate new frequencies in electronic and contemporary experiments.

Sinestesia Eco proposes itself as an instrument capable of involving several "senses", simultaneously capturing creative stimuli and historical identity, allowing the perception of visual and auditory stimuli and, at the same time, community awareness. The loudspeakers placed on the facade, which are visualized as notes of the stave thus composed by the artist, simultaneously amplify different experiences and knowledge, echoing the training activity of the Study Center and returning it to the Saluzzo community as a sensory device capable of activate identity and sharing.

The realization of this work is a demanding and laborious intervention that I have carried out thanks to

support of the Nicola Pedana Gallery and which involves various workers and partners without whom

availability, generosity and artistic vision I could not have presented such a work in the competition.

I also thank my brother Walter Pugliese who put his skills as an engineer at the service of the feasibility of the work. The

structures were sponsored by MZ Costruzioni di Santa Maria Capua Vetere, thanks to the generosity of Antonio Zito and Gennaro Zito.

ZZIPP Group has made available the audio equipment, while

for the finalization of the software I had the fundamental and invaluable support of Maestro Francesco

Abbrescia, my former colleague of the Conservatory of Bari. "

Special thanks go to Silvia Salavati for inviting me to the award and for having curated the intervention, at The Blank Contemporary Art, in particular to Marzia Minelli and Stefano Raimondi, to the Municipality of Saluzzo, the Olivero Foundation and the APM Foundation.