A collaboration between performer Silvia Costa and musician Claudio Rocchetti.
Surrounded by objects and materials of different origins found by chance and arranged like sets, triggers for extemporaneous and fugitive narratives, Silvia Costa acted in the solitude and modesty of locked rooms, creating a series of unseen gestures and of which only a sonic memory remains. Barely audible excerpts of words, thoughts jotted down on a mental page, already forgotten and confused, mingle with the sound trails of actions, movements, steps, in a material and affective relationship with the most common objects. A lighter, a rock, a newspaper. A chair, a pair of shoes, scissors. Still lifes or enigmas to be deciphered.
Claudio Rocchetti's elaboration of these fragile and wild sounds gave rise to a concrete music, marked by compositional strategies that are based on the use of various sounds, vocalized, shouted, breathed, beaten, rubbed and recorded. Frequencies and dust from another world, to be heard without being heard, to be spied with the ears instead of the eyes, through the keyhole, without disturbing. This Keyhole is the crack, the mouth from which the sound comes. It is like a region of the space-time, isolated from the rest of the universe, that attracts you towards a dark and obscure centre where little is seen, much is imagined in listening.
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
Silvia Costa (born 1984 in Treviso) is an Italian artist, director and performer. She studied Visual and Performing Arts at the IUAV University of Venice. Between 2006 and 2019, she has contributed as an actress and artistic collaborator to most of
Romeo Castellucci's creations for theater and opera. At the same time she carried on her own artistic projects, developing since 2007 a visual and poetic theater nourished by a deep reflection on images. Alternating roles as author, director, performer or set designer, this protean artist crosses different aesthetic fields in a personal exploration of Theatre. She has created theatre works, performances, installations and multimedia projects, and developped projects that have definitely expanded to the musical and operatic world, collaborating with the Ensemble Intercontemporain for the mise en espace of
Hièrophanie by Claude Vivier, and
Intérieur , composed by Joan Macrané Figuera, followed by
Così fan tutte by Mozart. She also directed the operas
Juditha Triumphans by Vivaldi, and
Combattimento, or the Black Swann's theory , based on the works of Monteverdi and his contemporaries,
Freitag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Noah's Ark by Benjamin Britten,
Like flesh, chamber opera composed by Sivan Eldar, libretto by Cordelia Lynn, with the ensemble Le Balcon,
JULIE by Philippe Boesmans,
Harawi, Chant d'amour et de mort by Messiaen, and
L'autre Voyage , tableaux lyriques from the unfinished works of Franz Schubert with Raphael Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion. Her productions and mise en espace were presented at Opéra Nationale de Lorraine, Opéra de Lille, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra Comique Paris, Opéra de Lyon, Cité de la Musique Paris, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Landestheater Vorarlberg Bregenz, Hannover Staatsoper, Théâtre du Chatelet Paris, Comédie Française Paris, Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Festival dei Due Mondi Spoleto. She was associated artist at Teatro dell'Arte/Milan Triennale (2017-2019), at the Centre Dramatique National in Angers (2019). Since 2020, she has been part of the artistic ensemble of the Comédie de Valence. In 2022 she was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Claudio Rocchetti (born 1976 in Bolzano, lives and works in Berlin) is one of the most active european avant musicians. Apart from his main solo project he is also part of 3/4HadBeenEliminated with
Valerio Tricoli and Stefano Pilia, half the duo Olyvetty with visual artist
Riccardo Benassi an he melts togheter with noise-funk duo G.I.Joe and Stefano Pilia into In Zaire power quartet. He also played in projects with Jooklo Duo (as Hypnoflash), double bassist Klaus Janek and with
Mattin, Bowindo, Fabio Orsi and MB among others. His work is mainly focused around concrete pastiches as the result of hardware live manipulation, turntable feedbacks and various recorded sources and objects. He released records on Hundebiss, Hapna,
Die Schachtel, Presto?!, Soleilmoon and Holidays Records. He is also the founder (with Kam Hassah) of Musica Moderna, a label focussed on field recordings, sound poetry and sound art.
