Sound diffusion: site specific

Composition and installation project: Nicola Cappelletti, Simone Pappalardo DHwtj explores the boundary and continuity between gesture, sign, and sound, tracing a continuum where certain traditional instruments are explored for their atypical timbral potential through physical computing systems and the use of electromagnetic fields, activated through interaction with a graphic score that serves as a map for the sound investigation. In its first form dedicated to the 50th Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, the work is inspired by the concept of a “musical worksite”: the viewer can activate musical instruments, generating sound events that are rooted in the origins of timbre construction, extended and modified in unusual ways, and which recall sound imprints of the city’s soundscape. By exploring the graphic score, which in turn arises from a re-contextualization in the musical and artistic sphere of the iconography of construction site signs, we arrive at a redefinition of the relationship between visual and musical language, composing a semantic code of gestures and sounds that acquires a specific meaning in active relation to the environment and the instruments, making them the physical extension of a single meaningful gesture. DHwtj is a commission by 50° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano.