Audiovisual

Music: Nicola Cappelletti
Video: Romina Bracchi Cirkus Vogler

Le Jour et la Nuit A/V may be presented either as an audiovisual stand alone work or an audiovisual electroacoustic performance, in which pieces are accompanied by a found-footage video fixed media.

Both works are an homage to the same title post-apocalyptic novel by Guido Morselli, published posthumously in 1977.

Video direction and music: Nicola Cappelletti.
With: Amelia Renzulli, Nicola Cappelletti.

The music of this version of Le Spectre Rouge are composed by Nicola Cappelletti e Nicola Fumo Frattegiani for the SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2021.

The soundtrack was created using a very narrow palette of timbres, to accommodate the claustrophobic and alienating inclination of the events that come to life within a place that is instead kaleidoscopic, deep and surreal. Sounds are mostly coming from manipulations of white noise and concrete sounds that play on different environmental levels, underlining, with a current point of view, what today appear as errors or inaccuracies in video editing and post production. For the same reason, few selected sound processing techniques were used, which guaranteed synesthetic unity between listening and vision: time-stretching, pitch-shifting, ring modulation and granular synthesis. The incursion of musical fragments from different periods and different styles aims to outline an ideal path between different historical eras, as in an intuition of possible futures (up to nowadays), affirming the visionary and avant-garde nature of the film, where the magical and surreal appearance of screens and containers that transmit images in motion constitutes a dazzling foreshadowing of the television medium, of streaming habits using devices and wall mapping techniques.

The expressive and communicative power of this Dadaist film remains current even ninety years later. The recreated sound path focuses on the ever-present reflection on the rebellion against the determinism of a pre-established order: both objects that deny their function, as much as human beings who tend to escape, almost by sublimating, the totalitarian and annihilating tendencies of the ideologies of the first half of the 20th century. This opposition of the human being to a materialistic and functional conception of man and society echoes more than ever in the contemporary historical period. The new sound environment imagined for the film represents these contrasts, updating them in the research and elaboration of stamps and cultural references, proposing a new perspective of reflection in which the distance between the two historical periods is narrowed by tracing new dimensional paths.

Music: Nicola Cappelletti
Video: Hans Richter

Colophonia is a metaphorical representation of a dialectic between tone and noise, pitch and inharmonic material, friction and resonance. A path that alternates tension and release, in which the tension towards equilibrium is continually contradicted and crumbled, until a final denied catharsis.

Music: Nicola Cappelletti
Video: Andrea Staiano