{"id":4478,"date":"2020-11-16T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/evento\/la-digestion-musica-ascoltata-raramente-ii-edizione-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T13:43:42","slug":"la-digestion-musica-ascoltata-raramente-ii-edizione-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/en\/evento\/la-digestion-musica-ascoltata-raramente-ii-edizione-2\/","title":{"rendered":"La Digestion – musica ascoltata raramente II Edizione"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 31st, 2018<\/strong>
\nh. 6:00 p.m.
\nCimitero delle Fontanelle<\/strong>
\nVia Fontanelle, 80 – Napoli<\/p>\n

Installation\/performance by Rie Nakajima<\/strong> & Pierre Berthet<\/strong> [JP\/BE]<\/p>\n

h. 9:00 p.m.
\nChiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze<\/strong>
\nSalita Pontecorvo, 65 – Napoli<\/p>\n

Minor Tom<\/strong>\u00a0(Micha\u0142Libera, Hilary Jeffery, Gianpaolo Peres) [PL\/UK\/IT] play Ted Hughes\u2019 Snow
\nDavid Toop<\/strong>\u00a0[UK]<\/p>\n

Continue the journey through the most evocative places of the city of Naples for the fourth appointment of\u00a0La Digestion \u2013 musica ascoltata raramente<\/strong>, festival dedicated to the innovative languages \u200b\u200bof contemporary sound art, and realized by the synergy between the Phonurgia association, the Morra Foundation and the EM Arts cultural association.
\nThe day of March 31 will feature a double musical event that will animate, in the afternoon, the magical Cimitero delle Fontanelle, in the Sanit\u00e0 district, and in the evening the beautiful Church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze, in Montesanto, with the unmissable concert of David Toop, member of the legendary Flying Lizards, milestone of the most creative and eclectic European new wave, and now a refined experimenter and sound theorist.
\nThe “thread” of this imaginary and real journey will be the “sound objects”. Mysterious and organic objects used by Rye Nakajima and Pierre Berthet that, between the tunnels and bones of the Cimitero delle Fontanelle, will play Dead Plants \/ Living Objects, sound installation and performance in which, in between vibrations and evocations, inorganic matter comes to life through the sound. In the evening will be the everyday objects to enliven the Chiesa delle Scalze, transforming, in the expert hands of David Toop, into original and polysemic electroacoustic sound sources. The English master, already partner of Brian Eno and collaborator of the biggest names of improvisation, from Derek Bailey to Evan Parker, from Hugh Davies to John Zorn, has developed, during his forty years of career, a poetic and deep musical language, made of found objects, small instruments, field recordings and transverse flute, to transform listening into an event of inner discovery. Finally, objects of a memory not too distant but full of nostalgia, those of rural Calabria, will be evoked by the words of the English poet Ted Hughes, translated in music by the trio Minor Tom. The poetry \u201cSnow\u201d, inspired by the songs of the swordfishermen documented by the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1954, becomes the material for the composition of a “live” radio drama, thanks to the work of Polish musician Micha\u0142 Libera accompanied by trombonist Hilary Jeffery and by vocalist Gianpaolo Peres.
\nThree variations of sound poetry, three unique moments between musicality, language and gesture, able to creep in there where listening meets with the thought, opening up new meanings and intense experiences.
\nIt is the will of the festival to inscribe the performative moment in a more complete education and reflection activity, that leaves lasting traces on the city’s territory. To this end on March 30th the artist David Toop will be protagonist of a live radio conversation (open to the audience) and in the afternoon will lead a workshop dedicated to listening entitled “Listening is Intimacy” at Casa Morra. The workshop, whose cost is 10 euros, is open to musicians of any instrument and level. For information and reservations:\u00a0info.phonurgia@gmail.com<\/a>
\n<\/span>The event is organized thanks to the moral patronage of the City of Naples, which has granted the use of the Fontanelle Cemetery, and thanks to the collaboration with the Associazione Le Scalze, which for years has been carrying out the activities of the Church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze in Montesanto.<\/p>\n

David Toop<\/strong>\u00a0[UK]
\nDavid Toop (born 1949, Enfield) has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This practice encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound artinstallations and opera. It includes seven acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010) and IntotheMaelstrom (2016), the latter a Guardian music book of the year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize.
\nBriefly a member of David Cunningham\u2019s pop project The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released thirteen solo albums, from New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno\u2019s Obscure label (1975) and Sound Body on David Sylvian\u2019s Samadhisound label (2006) to Entities Inertias Faint Beingson Lawrence English\u2019s ROOM40 (2016). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016).
\nIn the early 1970s he performed with sound poet Bob Cobbing, butoh dancer Mitsutaka Ishii, artist Marie Yates, poet\/performer Carlyle Reedy and drummer Paul Burwell, along with key figures in improvisation, including Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Georgie Born, Hugh Davies, John Stevens, Lol Coxhill, Frank Perry and John Zorn.In recent years he has returned to collaborative performance, working with many artists and musicians including Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Aki Onda, Max Eastley, Tania Chen, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Sharon Gal, Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Thurston Moore, Extended Organ (with Paul Mc Carthy and Tom Recchion) and a revived Alterations, the iconoclastic improvising quartet with Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack and Terry Day first formed in 1977. He has also made many collaborative records, including Buried Dreams and Doll Creature with Max Eastley, Breath Taking with Akio Suzuki, Skin Tones with Ken Ikeda and co-productions (with Steve Beresford) for Frank Chickens, the 49 Americans and Ivor Cutler.
\nMajor sound art exhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London (2000) and Playing John Cage at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (2005-6). In 2008, a DVD of the Belgian film \u2013 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection \u2013 was released by Sub Rosa, and in 2017 his autobiography \u2013 Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound \u2013 was published by Du Books in Japan. His most recent record release is Dirty Songs Play Dirty Songs, released on Audika in October 2017.
\nHe is currently Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication.<\/h5>\n
https:\/\/davidtoopblog.com\/<\/h5>\n