Circus Audienti I&II (trailer)

Описание: Fabio Cifariello Ciardi
Circus Audienti I&II
for voices, video, journalist, ensemble and electronics

Festival Aperto 2023 - 29.09.2023 - Teatro Cavallerizza, Reggio Emilia

Other parts of the work will be published in April 2024
The video of the entire concert is available on request
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In 1973 a particular project took place in Reggio Emilia to bring the public closer to contemporary music: not through lectures or concerts, but by the ancient confrontational form of public debate. The participants were, on the one hand, protagonists of Italian music at the time such as composers Luigi Nono and Armando Gentilucci, pianist Maurizio Pollini, and conductor Claudio Abbado, all determined to present the grounds and reasons behind the New Music. On the other were workers, laborers, students, political representatives and trade unionists willing to engage in even harshly critical, sometimes dramatic confrontation.
The title of the initiative, "Musica/Realtà” – Music/Reality – aimed to extend the traditional musical experience far beyond the walls of the concert hall, intertwining it with the sounds of everyday life, bonding it with the ideologies, political aspirations and cultural ambitions of the working classes.

In Circus Audienti spectators find themselves immersed in the debates of that time: surrounded by the voices, by the musicians of the ensemble, but also by interviews produced for the occasion or from restricted archives, and flash-mob interviews recorded just before the performance.
The result is a circus audienti et disceptatores of sounds, moods, noises, memories, words, images and bodies, in which the enviable vitality of that reality transcends temporal boundaries to connect with the reality of today.

Future versions will associate the "Musica/Realtà” debates with interviews and specially filmed footage in the other cities where Circus Audienti will take place, aiming at finding an answer to the following question: does it still make sense to ask what the relationship between New Music and our everyday lives might be?

A production by
Festival Aperto • Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia 2023

Icarus vs Muzak
Giovanni Mareggini - flute
Roberta Gottardi - tarogato, clarinet
Fabio Codeluppi, Sergio Ruiu - trumpet
Cristiano Boschesi, Matteo Miglio - trombone
Francesco Pedrazzini - percussion
Leonardo Zunica - piano
Yoko Morimyo - violin
Luciano Cavalli - viola
Andrea Cavuoto - cello
Daniele Rosi - contrabass

Ira Rubini - journalist
Francesco Ardan Dal Rì - live electronics & editing

Dario Garegnani - direttore
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Voices (2023): Mario Baroni, Marco Eboli, Fabrizio Fanticini, Franco Ferrari, Bruna Ganapini Soncini, Giuseppe Gherpelli, Elena Maccaferri, Marwa Mahmoud, Patrizia Nasi, Romano Prodi, Stefano Enea Virgilio Raspini, Paolo Simonazzi, Luca Tadolini, Pierluigi Tedeschi.

Voices (1973) Claudio Abbado, Renzo Bonazzi, Francesco Degrada, Enrico Fubini, Armando Gentilucci, Luigi Nono, Luigi Pestalozza, Maurizio Pollini, and workers, students, citizens of Reggio Emilia
(from Archivio-Mediateca della Fondazione I Teatri)

External filming and interview post-production - OoopStudio, Andrea Sommani
Audiovideo post-production - Edison Studio

A sincere thank you to the students of Liceo Artistico "G. Chierici" coordinated by Stefano Bertini, Biblioteca di Albinea, Centro Interculturale Mondinsieme, Centro Sociale Orologio, Centro Studi sul dialetto reggiano di Albinea, Elettric80 Group, Fondazione “Reggio Tricolore”, Fototeca della Biblioteca Panizzi, gazzettadireggio.gelocal.it, Istoreco / Archivio storico Officine Reggiane, TPER (Trasporto Passeggeri Emilia-Romagna), www.lenguamedra.org

A very special thanks to Roberto Fabbi.

© Fabio Cifariello Ciardi 2023
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