A dialogue between the visual artist Margherita Morgantin and two musicians and sound makers, within Morgantin's research project VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle (2020-21).
On one side the record hosts the translation into sound spectra of a series of data from the VIP experiment in progress in the LNGS Gran Sasso Nuclear Physics Laboratories, processed by the electronic music composer Ilaria Lemmo: the sounds constantly oscillate between origin and destination in an environment of pure suspension. On the other side, it presents a road-noise-recording spawned from the artist's solitary journey from Milan to Porto by car, elaborated together with Beatrice Goldoni. The titles of this double composition are inspired by two sources: Cosmic Silence refers to the experiments in the scientific field with the aim of deepening the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the biological response to environmental radiation. Fluorescence alludes to the physical phenomenon of re-emission of the radiation received, which can be intercepted in the visible range in the dark. "Thus the gaze in the dark becomes listening." (M.M.)
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
Margherita Morgantin, visual artist based in Milan, was born in Venice where she graduated in Architecture at the I.U.A.V., researching on systems for forecasting natural light. Her work is articulated through different languages, ranging from drawing and installation to performance, moving on a thread that connects language, philosophy, mathematics and visual culture. Contact and cohabitation, observation and imagination, are the open intervals that characterize the work of Morgantin.
She has participated in contemporary art exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and carried out special actions and projects in different contexts. She has published several books of short texts and drawings. Since 2013 she also works as Pawel und Pavel, a collaborative project on writing and performance with Italo Zuffi. She has collaborated with visual and sound artists, choreographers including Michele Di Stefano/mk, Roberta Mosca, Richard Crow,
Mattin,
Alice Guareschi, and with the Diotima women philosophical collective. She teaches artistic anatomy and semiology of the body at Brera Accademy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Ilaria Lemmo, based in Turin, is a composer and sound researcher in the field of electronic and experimental music, graduated in Electronic Music at the Scuola Civica Claudio Abbado in Milan. Her work explores the possibilities of algorithmic composition in relation and dialogue with the acoustic space and as a listening practice, both in the field of sound research and in the multidisciplinary one. For Lemmo the electronic medium is an instrument of observation and interpenetration on the one hand of a computer language related to algorithmic writing for sound synthesis and processing of complex data structures, and on the other hand a study on sound related to field recording and processing of recorded sound. She also works as a sound designer for performing and visual arts (among her collaborations Chiara Bersani, Teatro Valdoca,
Margherita Morgantin) and teaches electronic music.
Beatrice Goldoni, sound designer and music maker, was born and lives in Venice. After the graduation in Philosophy of Language researching on Wittgenstein, she developed her own activity as a musician, for which she first trained by approaching classical music and jazz, through the study of the transverse flute at the Benedetto Marcello conservatory in Venice and the
Thelonious Monk school in Dolo, to finally devote herself to sound engineering, graduating from the Alessandro Scala school in Bologna. From that moment her interest shifted from more traditional compositional forms to experiments around the potential of electronic music, psychoacoustics and environmental recording, guided by the idea that sound should be thought and experienced outside of visual metaphors. For several years she has been working as a DJ, preferring underground atmospheres and sounds. She collaborated with artists and performers such as
Margherita Morgantin, Matteo Vettorello,
Silvia Costa, Laura Pante, and featured in festivals such as Electrocamp, Path Festival, Kilowatt, Art Fair. She also used her experience in contexts of social and educational policies, as head of musical projects for the Culture Sector of the Municipality of Venice.
