Shadowdiving: Recent Episodes
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Between aural cinematic montage and experimental mixing, SHADOWDIVING is a musical and sonic cartography of a world in ruins. An invitation to stay with the trouble while drawing lines of fugitivity.
A linguistic journey between containment and escape, with:
Clark Coolidge, Nurse with Wound, Dead Can Dance, David Toop, Roland Barthes, Marina Rosenfeld, Haco, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Luciano Berio, Gilles Deleuze, Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone/Roberta Flack, Moor Mother, Cocteau Twins, Jan Švankmajer/Lewis Carroll, Joan La Barbara, Public Enemy, Khoisan Click, John Oswald, C. Spencer Yeh, Pauline Oliveros, AGF, Jean-Luc Godard, ASMR Glossolalia, Lucrecia Dalt, Robert Hushley, Jennifer Walshe, Robert Wyatt, Brion Gysin, Carmelo Bene, David Lynch & Jocelyn Montgomery/Hildegard Von Bingen, Kubu Shaman, John Cage, Peter Szöke, Ratna Dewi, Yoko Kanno, Jean-Pierre Gorin/Poto & Cabengo, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, bpNichol, Chino Amobi, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gregory Whitehead, Einstürzende Neubauten.
A sonic journey inspired by the work of Italian poet, ethnographer and activist Danilo Dolci who, from the 1950s to the 1970s, charted the lives of Sicilian farmers, workers, outlaws and healers in a series of oral narrative reconstructions. Voices and visions summoned from history as the cast(aways) of a film to come.
Voices: Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson
Sound design and music: Graeme Thomson
Text composition: Silvia Maglioni
Texts adapted from Dolci’s "The Outlaws of Partinico", "Report from Palermo", "Waste", "Sicilian lives", "Silence doesn’t exist", "The Man Who Plays Alone"
(at the invitation of Giulia Crisci & Camille Pageard / Radio Commons)
Dld script: http://radio-commons.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Field_Visions_trascription.pdf
inspired by Danilo Dolci's Sicilian conversations
(at the invitation of Giulia Crisci & Camille Pageard - Radio Commons / Il limone lunare)
Episode 2 - Virus Is A Language
A journey between containment and escape - in no particular order, with:
Clark Coolidge, Nurse with Wound, Dead Can Dance, David Toop, Roland Barthes, Marina Rosenfeld, Haco, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Luciano Berio, Gilles Deleuze, Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone/Roberta Flack, Moor Mother, Cocteau Twins, Jan Švankmajer/Lewis Carroll, Joan La Barbara, Public Enemy, Khoisan Click, John Oswald, C. Spencer Yeh, Pauline Oliveros, AGF, Jean-Luc Godard, ASMR Glossolalia, Lucrecia Dalt, Robert Hushley, Jennifer Walshe, Robert Wyatt, Brion Gysin, Carmelo Bene, David Lynch & Jocelyn Montgomery/Hildegard Von Bingen, Kubu Shaman, John Cage, Peter Szöke, Ratna Dewi, Yoko Kanno, Jean-Pierre Gorin/Poto & Cabengo, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, bpNichol, Chino Amobi, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gregory Whitehead, Einstürzende Neubauten.
Episode 1 - I Am Sitting in a Room
A journey around lockdown in Palermo, with:
Alvin Lucier, Holly Herndon, Xavier de Maistre, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet / Elio Vittorini, Borusiade, Jean-Luc Godard, Georges Perec, Leonard Cohen, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Raoul Vaneigem, Balcony Orchestra, John Cage, Talking Heads, Irreversible Entanglements, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Villaelvin, lundi am, Grouper, Robert Bresson, Todd Haynes, Grinderman, Areni Agbabian, Tsai Ming-Liang, Coil, Arvo Pärt, Weyes Blood.