© lorenzo ballerini

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▷ opening / installazione
h 20.30
⦿ re_derma [IT] /// Somatic Resonance
sound installation

▷ concerto
h 21.00
⦿ Simone Grande [IT] /// Mani Rotte  /// Mani Rotte
electric guitar + electronics 

⦿ Lorenzo Ballerini [IT] /// Void
smartphone network performance

⦿ H7-25 [IT] (Damiano Meacci + Gianluca Catuogno) ///OVERT[o]URISM
live electronics

///OVERT[o]URISM [live electronics performance] a single small letter, squeezed between capitals, is all it takes to tip an overture into overtourism. The small crushed by the outsized: an island, a city, a mind under the many forms of “over” we inhabit — overtourism, which the duo experiences at first hand between Florence and Capri; the flood of information that promises awareness and delivers distraction; the strain every excess places on the ecosystems — natural, urban, mental — that sustain us. On stage, sound behaves like an ecosystem. Fragile equilibria are enriched by new presences: it is not presence that breaks them, but excess — proliferations that thicken into chaos and consume the balance that had made room for them. Much of the duo’s sound is born from almost nothing: background noise channelled into feedback circuits (no-input) until it proliferates into matter — noise itself turned into excess; around it, pre-recorded fragments — voices of protest — reworked live, and the ticking of a timer, time running out as it all unfolds. Dense saturation alternates with deep stillness, in a free improvisation grounded in mutual listening: what happens when what we take for enrichment begins to devour us?
H7-25 /// is the electroacoustic duo of Gianluca Catuogno (Capri) and Damiano Meacci (Florence). Born from a shared urge to improvise, the duo builds its music from essential means: everyday objects, small folk instruments and self-built electronics, explored through close listening and transformed live into events, textures and form. Each performance reshapes itself around the space that hosts it. H7-25 has performed at Tempo Reale Festival (Florence), Resonant Edge Festival (UK) and Audio Art Festival (Kraków), and in residency at Château Éphémère (Paris). Gianluca Catuogno is an electronic musician, composer and music therapist. He has created a sound installation for sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, written music for theatre (with Roberto Saviano and Mimmo Borrelli) and film, and explores live electronics in music therapy. He teaches at the Tito Schipa Conservatory in Lecce. Damiano Meacci is a musician and sound researcher, member of Tempo Reale since 1996, performing live electronics for Luciano Berio and many others, from Teatro alla Scala to IRCAM. His music for Nina, with soprano Claron McFadden, is touring internationally. He teaches at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.

/// Void  [smartphone network performance] Void arises from an exploration of the contemporary paradox: connection as a form of isolation. In a hyperconnected system, constant access to personalized visual, sonic, and informational content generates increasingly separate individual experiences. The illusion of a shared space fragments into perceptual micro-universes, calibrated for a single subject.
The performance questions the concept of spatialization, no longer as an extension, but as a contraction of space. A shared loudspeaker system constructs a common acoustic environment, while the audience’s smartphones introduce another perceptual layer: private perceptual spaces, accessible only to those who temporarily hold them. Controlled in real time by the performer, these parallel experiences create a shifting relationship between collective listening and individual perception. Void invites the audience to reflect on the threshold between the personal and the collective, asking whether there is something that no one can perceive alone.
Lorenzo Ballerini ///  is an Italian sound and new media artist and researcher based in Florence. He is Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia Arts at the Conservatory of Trapani. His practice explores sound, space, and digital media through performances and installations focused on social interaction and collective behaviour. His work has been presented at ADE Festival, Artech, Berlin Biennale, Bright Festival, CHB Berlin, Diffrazioni Festival, Fabbrica Europa, Gaida Festival, ICSC, IRCAM-WAC, MA/IN Festival, MEFF, SMC, and Tempo Reale Festival. He has collaborated with artists including Alvise Vidolin, Christine Meisner, Michele Marasco, Nicola Sani, Paolo Parisi, Roberto Fabbriciani, and Tiziano Manca.

/// Mani Rotte  [mixed media]  is a moment devoted to improvisation for electric guitar and live electronics, and it uses no score. A melody, or a small cell, is developed, redefined and transformed into a continuous dialogue between instrument, gesture and compositional thought: improvisation, body, space and memory are at the heart of its research. In a hyper-productive and hyper-descriptive age, the project chooses to withdraw toward the foundational materials of a path — texts, melodies and harmonies — in order to reread them through contemporary tools. It recycles and reinterprets the past without indulging in formalism, seeking an essential, unhurried listening, one able to counter the perceptual frenzy of the present. Mani Rotte does not claim to invent something new: it questions the very idea of originality, generating new awareness around material that already exists. Close to improvisation on a theme and variations, its aim is to reactivate listening and to offer fresh perspectives, without sweetening or new terminology. It is the real-time sound-processing tools that define, time after time, the form and structure of the performance.
Simone Grande /// is an Italian guitarist and sound designer. He moved to Bologna to study classical guitar with Walter Zanetti; after graduating he continued in electronic music and sound design, focusing on improvisation through a Master’s in Electroacoustic Improvisation. His independent projects and releases include “Mani Rotte,” a solo performance for guitar and electronics, and “CavalloGrande,” a cassette with Biagio Cavallo. He has collaborated with musicians and institutions such as Julien Desprez for Ohm Orchestra (Angelica Festival, Bologna), Joseph Kamaru for the “Stayer” tour (La Torre Centro Musica, Modena), Christian Wolff for the “Sveglia” project (Angelica, Italy), Tempo Reale (Italy) for commissions and live sets, and Virgilio Sieni’s Cango Cantieri Danza (Italy). He has released with Elli Records (France) with the B.I.G. (Bologna Improvisation Group) and NeverAnythingRecord (USA).
He has handled sound design for dance productions with CGJ (Italy), including “Pas De Deux,” “Fuego,” “Evento,” and “Elysium” (Cango Cantieri Goldonetta, Virgilio Sieni). He has been hosted internationally at the Cité des Arts in Paris and Instants Chavirés.

/// miXtape [LISTENING ROOM] 10 works selected from the acousmatic category become part of the annual acousmatic mixtape featured on the MA/IN festival website. Marking the festival’s 10th anniversary, this year’s edition extends into a physical space: a sound installation inside KORA transforms into a listening room, allowing visitors to freely explore and experience the 10th [X] miXtape.

© H7-25

© Simone Grande