Roberto Paci Dalò & Rupert Huber _ EDEN

Roberto Paci Dalò & Rupert Huber

Eden

31.01.16 h.6.30pm – worldwide première

site-specific concert @ I Portici Hotel

BY INVITATION ONLY

Roberto Paci Dalò (musician and visual artist) and Rupert Huber (musician and, together with Richard Dorfmeister, leader of the legendary Austrian group TOSCA) present for the first time their new project Eden created for GALLLERIAPIÙ on the occasion of ArteFiera.

Eden is an immersion into the sound. Starting from acoustic instruments (piano, clarinet and bass clarinet) reverberated through a delicate electronic music, the two artists lead an exciting acoustic exploration that moves among evocations of melodies, madrigal-style counterpoints, soft beatings.

Eden is a perceptive mapping working on details. It is an evocation of a classic – as the clarinet-piano duo -to turn something apparently usual in an unheard and unprecedent sonic journey, where electronic music gradually creates spaces that multiply sound and spread it by leading the audience in a totally immersive experience, in which sound, environment, light become integral part of the work.

The work investigates the place where it will be premiered, the former theater Eden Kursaal, now home to the I Portici Hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant. Eden is a site-specific concert that is both a reflection on the venue and a research on its musical, social and cultural history.

Eden is a journey through space and time together with the theater’s ghosts, imaging that some sounds of the past have been trapped inside the Eden Kursaal and the project of the duo could make them audible again.

Eden Kursaal theater was, between late ‘800 and early ‘900, the old café-chantant called “the temple of the variety show in Bologna” in which the most famous vedettes used to perform. The mayor Dallolio inaugurated it in 1899. There was a large room on the ground floor for the coffee concert and a lounge restaurant (plus various halls for gaming) on the main floor, overlooking the Montagnola. Inside it was decorated with wrought iron and Art Nouveau balustrade by Sante Mingazzi, while the German company Ganz curated lighting. Thanks to the first radiators in Bologna, there was a steam heating system. During Belle Époque it hosted all the big stars of the cabaret, from Petrolini to La bella Otero. The building later became home to the Electric Company.

Roberto Paci Dalò, composer, musician (clarinets and electronics), visual artist, and director he leads the Giardini Pensili performing arts group co-founded in 1985. A pioneer in the use of digital and telematic technologies in art, Roberto presented his works in Asia, Africa, Europe, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, South America, Israel, Middle East in major festivals and museums such as Palais des Beaus Arts Brussels, Wiener Staatsoper, Venice Biennale, Budapest Autumn Festival, Kunsthalle Wien, Locarno Film Festival, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Ars Electronica Linz, Charlottenborg Copenhagen, ZKM Karlsruhe, SH Contemporary Shanghai a.o. Collaborations include Kronos Quartet, Massive Attack, David Moss, Alvin Curran, Rupert Huber, Mouse on Mars, Tom Cora, Stefano Scodanibbio, Robert Adrian X, Fred Frith, Terry Riley, Tom Cora, David Moss, Robert Lippok, Akio Suzuki, Philip Jeck, Scanner, Sacri Cuori, Maurizio Cattelan, Giorgio Agamben, Predrag Matvejevic a.o. His work have won him international admiration from amongst others, Aleksandr Sokurov and John Cage. He created in 1995 Radio Lada, one of the first web radios. He’s been recipient of the Künstlerprogramm des DAAD Award (Berlin) and Premio Napoli 2015 for the Italian language and culture. He received two nominations for Interactive Arts at Ars Electronica Prize (Linz), artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation (Woodside, California). He is professor of Interaction Design at UNIRSM University of the Republic of San Marino / IUAV Venice and created Velvet Factory and School of Radio. Roberto was born in Rimini and grew up in Tremosine sul Garda. He lived in Berlin, Rome, Naples with residences in Vancouver and now lives and works on the Rimini’s hills.

robertopacidalo.com

Rupert Huber, composer, music artist, musician. Born in 1967. Based in Vienna, Austria, works internationally. The group TOSCA – Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber – has released 14 albums over the last 20 years. TOSCA has performed live with worldwide success at events such as the Coachella Festival and has won Austria’s Amadeus Music Award.
Rupert Huber´s spatial and installation work (Turmgesang, Stadtmusik, Erinnerungswellen) focuses on the thematic of the communication possibilities within a given space, the people there and the music of the very site itself. His music integrates the sonification of given data (such as airport soundscapes and building bridges) and includes telematic performances, events and concerts (near the distance 2) as well as combined live/radio/webprojects (darb-i fetih). Huber’s written music (primarily for piano) explores the architecture of sound by describing a process and a space. He connects this approach of generating scores to his technique of creating objects (paintings, sculptures), distilling the essence of written music into tangible form (teardrops and 4.1). His music activities range from commissioned compositions (Wiener Festwochen, Centre Pompidou, Ars Electronica Festival) to film soundtracks (Food Design, Freud’s Lost Neighbors: Berggasse 19), TV (C.S.I. Miami, Sex and the City), radio (ORF, Deutschlandradio) and beyond. He has been collaborating with AGF, Chris Eckman, Sam Auinger, Alvin Curran, Robert Adrian x, Horst Hörtner, Garbiel Orozco, Roberto Paci Dalò among many others. Rupert Huber studied composition in Vienna. He is an alumnus of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency (1997), was a member of the jury of the Prix Ars Electronica (2007, 2009) and nominated for the World Technology Award in 2010.

ruperthuber.com