:: Sound Fetish (5 seconds and/or infinity) ::

Sound Fetish - (5 seconds and/or infinity) is a partial panorama of "art sounds" in Italy (artists, composers, designers, performers, poets, etc. living and working in Italy)
Compiled and mixed by Steve Piccolo for WPS1 in May 2005.
Broadcast by WPS1 MoMA 12 June at the Venice Biennale
- via web at www.wps1.org
- via radio on 99.1 FM in Venice

Sound Fetish will be part of the audio archive of the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art of New York), thanks to the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, and its radio WPS1: the world’s first internet art radio station.

(excerpt from Steve Piccolo web site http://www.undo.net/stevepiccolo/)
"Contributors were asked to submit either sounds with a duration of about five seconds, or a sonic continuum (loop or long track) of indeterminate, potentially infinite length.
The response to our call for contributions was literally overwhelming... proof that sound as a medium of artistic expression is alive and well in Italy, in spite of the customary delay on the part of the country’s art institutions to recognize the fact that art doesn’t only mean things you can hang on the wall. " (On the left, photo courtesy by Steve Piccolo)

Contributors (in alphabetical disorder):
christian alati > carlo benvenuto > julien blaine > gianni broi (gruppo 03) > lorenzo brusci (timet) > letizia cariello > massimo carozzi (zimmerfrei) > a constructed world (geoff lowe & jacqui riva) > roberto cuoghi and alessandra sofia > de-abc (luca pancrazzi, gak sato, steve piccolo) > filippo del corno > paola di bello > mauro cossu > nathalie du pasquier > massimo falascone > emilio fantin > flavia fernandes > daniele ghisi > patrizia guerresi & massimo zarantonello > peter holzknecht > juan leal-ruiz > maurizio mansueti & luca cirillo (transistors) > massimo mariani > ottonella mocellin + nicola pellegrini > alberto motta (motta & sala) > maurizio nannucci > aleXnaSi > giancarlo norese > giovanni oberti > adrian paci > roberto paci dalò > angela paletta (comp. p.r. fricker) > matteo pennese > francesco pedrini > daniele pario perra > sara piccinelli > walter prati > letizia renzini > luca resta > gianluca scordo > gruppo sinestetico (antonio sassu et al) > sonicforce99 > students of “new techniques of artistic expression” course 2004-05, bergamo university > bert theis and mariette schiltz > marco tindiglia > vincenzo vasi > riccardo wanke > jimmy weinstein > gruppo wurmkos w/ filippo monico > gruppo zerotre > marco zoi, carlo fatigoni, herve constant.

More info about The Transistors collaboration
Among many artists, Maurizio Mansueti (ErMan) and Luca Cirillo (Luke) from the Transistors! For their special contribution they have played and built sonic architectures, pulsing and looped sounds, experimenting with monophonic and virtual keyboards, using oscillators, filters and knobs (!) at their transistors lab.

More info about Steve Piccolo
>> http://www.undo.net/stevepiccolo/
Toward the end of the Seventies he founded, together with John and Evan Lurie, Arto Lindsay and Tony Fier, the group The Lounge Lizards (New York). In the 1990s he moved to Milan. In parallel with his activity as a jazz instrumentalist, Steve worked in the world of pop music, writing songs and lyrics. Today, he also works in the field of “sound art”, creating installations for galleries and museums The new cd EXPEDITION (Temposphere) with Gak Sato and Luca Gemma is now available.

More info about WPS1 Radio Venice Live
"Venice Biennale Live - 99.1 FM in Venice June 6-12 - Live Broadcast Schedule
Welcome to WPS1 Radio Venice Live from aboard the Fusina, a floating radio station, Internet hub, rendezvous lounge, and jewel of the waterways located on the Grand Canal near the Arsenale in Venice, Italy. For the 2005 Venice Bienale, WPS1 is providing up-to-the-minute festival news, insights into Venice culture, and unmoderated gossip as events unfold at the most anticipated art event of the year. Plus live interviews and discussions, music, historic audio and on-air celebrations.
WPS1 is broadcasting 24 hours a day from June 6-12 on 99.1 FM in Venice and streaming worldwide on the Internet. Exclusive collector's edition WPS1 pocket radios are being distributed across Venice."
(excerpt from http://www.wps1.org/venice/venice_grid.php)

More info about PS1
>> http://www.ps1.org/
"P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, is the oldest and second largest non-profit arts center in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. P.S.1 was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as The Institute of Art and Urban Resources Inc., and was primarily dedicated to the transformation of abandoned and underutilized buildings in New York City into exhibition, performance, and studio spaces for artists. Today, P.S.1 operates two internationally acclaimed spaces for contemporary art: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City and the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan, both of which contain museum- quality galleries and extensive studio facilities." (excerpt from ps1 web site)

More info about WPS1
>> http://www.wps1.org/
"WPS1 is the world’s first internet art radio station. Sponsored by Bloomberg L.P., WPS1 provides an extraordinary lineup of music and talk shows broadcasting 24 hours a day. The station's programs combine talk and music shows hosted by contemporary writers, artists and musicians with rare historic material that includes the entire audio archive of the Museum of Modern Art." (excerpt from ps1 web site)

More info about Biennale di Venezia
http://www.labiennale.org/

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