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Dates: April 27 to May 2, 2005 Monday to Friday, 9.00 to 17.00 Saturday and Sunday, 11.00 to 17.00 Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Tiergartenstraße 15, 10785 Berlin Free admission Individual group tours For reservations, call +49 711 550423-20. Every hand symbol made by the audience appears on a home page created especially for the installation: www.studioazzurro.com/tamburi. 4 big interactive drums, 5 Video Projectors and an interface controllable by a display / Direction: Paolo Rosa / Photographs: Fabio Cirifino / Interactive Navigation Project: Stefano Roveda / Assistance on Realisation: Davide Sgalippa / Sounds and Programming of the Sound Interactions: Forum Neues Musiktheater der Staatsoper Stuttgart (Andreas Breitscheid, Manuel Poletti) / Compilation: Fanny Molteni / Construction and Sound Features of the drums: Diego und Sergio Quagliarella / Realisation of the Informatic Projects: Giovanni Civati, Samuele Vacchi / Sensor System: Antonio Camurri, Matteo Ricchetti – d.i.s.t. Genova / Hardware: Dario Gavezotti / Graphic Art and Creation of the home page: Jacopo G. Rovida, Francesco Paratici, Alice Rosa / Digital Recording: Federico Sangiorgi / Project Management: Reiner Bumke / Production Coordination: Martina Sgalippa / ICC Kommission – International Communication Center di Tokio, on the occation of Studio Azzurro' s (2001) attended Exhibition “Embracing Interactive Art” In Collaboration with Miho Takechi–Miho Project and the Mori Yu Gallery / Contact: 235 Media, Köln The Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, which together with the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg provides for the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, is presenting at the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg Berlin a guest performance of the interactive installation Tamburi. The artists group Studio Azzurro of Milan, which has for years been one of the most advanced proponents of interactive art forms, collaborated with Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Staatsoper Stuttgart to complete an installation it had already developed. Tamburi was shown at the FNM in October 2004 and met with tremendous response from the audience. Tamburi combines the motifs of the drum and the human hand—one of the oldest means of communication and the most important human tool—in order to embody core concepts of our cultural tradition and historical cultures in an interactive form. To interact with the installation, visitors manipulate images and sound—drum sounds sampled or produced virtually—by means of four large tambourines. Enlarged human hands are projected onto the tambourines; young and old, delicate and callused, painted, clay encrusted, dust covered, and ethnic hands. Whenever a visitor strikes a drum, a hand appears on the drum head. Randomly chosen small objects appear at various points of the palm, which are then suddenly seized by an abrupt movement. As the palms close, they modulated drum sounds become lost in the real and virtual space. This installation seeks to demonstrate in a simple and interactive way several concepts that are part of the tradition and cultural history of our civilization and to bring them closer to the complex changes that are underway in our day, but without sacrificing them: the gesture, the sense of touch, hand-iness, the symbols of work and time, prophecy, ethnic legacy, the sense of difference, materiality, discovery, the value of things and their careful handling, emotional possession and the meaning of the gift and of giving, the real and the virtual journey, the path of initiation, the distance and the speed, the interaction, the expected answer, the sound of the tribe, the drum that holds a dialogue, the rite of recording, listening. Aspects that fascinate us and that we want to bring closer to the universe of technology, that in their embittered struggle forward should not forget what they have left behind. With our highly developed technology we often produce “primal” messages that bump up against the limits of speechlessness in their redundancy and contradictoriness. Studio Azzurro developed the installation several years ago, but had not yet worked out the sound conception. The Forum Neues Musiktheater (Andreas Breitscheid, Manuel Poletti) realized the sound structure while Studio Azzurro was at the Staatsoper Stuttgart for a production of Morton Feldman’s opera Neither in autumn 2004. Tamburi was presented with great success in October 2004 during a two-week exhibition at the Forum Neues Musiktheater. Now the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, together with Studio Azzurro and the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, is presenting Tamburi at the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg in Berlin in April 2005. The Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg is one of Germany’s largest foundations. It supports charitable projects, most of which it implements itself. It fulfills its mission primarily by supporting science and research, education, social projects, young people and families, and art culture, and sports. The Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg is the only foundation that invests with such a broad range of themes over the long term, impartially, and exclusively in the future of the State of Baden-Württembergs and hence in its citizens. Since 2001, the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is a partner of the Staatsoper Stuttgart and supports the Forum Neues Musiktheater in particular. » TAMBURI IN BERLIN Photos » STUDIO AZZURRO Homepage |
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