It springs from a vocation the Foundation has always held: to rebuild a collective memory through a contemporary sensibility. Its ambition is to reactivate the innovative drive that, from the sixteenth century and for at least three centuries, made Naples a European beacon for musical composition and training — thanks also to its system of Conservatories, which became an internationally recognised pedagogical model.
On these roots, Timeless builds a network devoted to the relationships between sound, space, technology and the visual arts: a lasting place where artists, students and different kinds of expertise meet, and where leading figures of the international scene take part in shared processes of research and production.
Timeless unfolds over three years as an international programme, poised between training and community.
Each year it offers free laboratories and workshops led by leading Italian and international teachers and artists in Sound Art. These pathways bring together acoustics, music computing and coding, and culminate in openings with live performances open to the city.
In the coming years the project will involve landmark institutions for Sound Art and the technological arts -the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien of Karlsruhe and Ars Electronica of Linz – with thel Conservatorio di Musica “San Pietro” a Majella of Naples.
From 19 to 21 October, at the Church of Santa Caterina da Siena, Pier Alfeo will lead a workshop for students, enthusiasts and sound professionals, drawing them into the creative process and the intermedial experience that led him to the making of the work.
Zêlos is the sound sculpture conceived by Pier Alfeo as a reactive organism, born with a precise aim: «to give body to an unarchived memory and a concealed knowledge».
Over three days, from 10 to 12 May, students, enthusiasts and sound professionals are invited to take part in a co-creation workshop led by Roberto Pugliese.
(Molfetta, Italy, 1985) is a sound and intermedia artist. His research moves within the threshold where sound is not yet music but behaviour, putting the repetitiveness of algorithmic systems into tension with the unpredictability of chaos, pursuing an authentic vision of collaboration between human and non-human.
He trained in Electronic Composition, Music Informatics and Multimedia at the Conservatory “N. Piccinni” of Bari and subsequently at the Conservatory “San Pietro a Majella” of Naples, under the guidance of Francesco Scagliola, Roberto Pugliese and Elio Martusciello. He further deepened his practice with a certificate in Machine Learning for Musicians and Artists with Rebecca Fiebrink (Goldsmiths University of London), and studies in sonic ecology with Makis Solomos and Daniel Teruggi.
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