Share Festival 2014-2015 Performances
PERFORMANCE
Toa Mata Band
19th March, 07:30 pm
Temporary Museum
Toa Mata Band is known as the world’s first LEGO robotic band, a brand new project started by the Italian interaction designer and music-producer Giuseppe Acito. His idea was conceived in connection with the need to play his collection of vintage drum pads live, so while for a long time techno bands have relied on robot-like costumes to create an alter-ego, Acito decided to create a real robot band to play his productions, a kind of new approach to music he calls “mechatronic music.”
Each band member is built from LEGO Bionicle pieces, an ingenious system of electric motors, rubber bands and pulleys connected to the figures’ arms, which allows them to play an array of different touchable synthesizers, drum machines, smartphones and acoustic percussion instruments. The arms are controlled by an Arduino Uno which is hooked up to a MIDI sequencer.
Giuseppe Acito was born in Taranto, in southern Italy, in 1967.
Over his twenty year-long career, he has worked both in studios and live for major record companies in Italy and for popular artists. His passion for electronic musical instruments and computer music has make Acito an expert in MIDI, sound synthesis and the digital processing of sound.
PERFORMANCES
#VS3WWW, Deep Profundis, Ultra Magnetic
21th March, 10:00pm
Bunker
#VS3WWW
Flash mob, by Vecchio Merda Danzband (USA–YV–IT)
Vecchio Merda will be erupting into the festival, calling on the public to help compose a collective ode against every kind of tyranny today. What are we waiting for? It’s time to raise your voice! It’s time to fight against the World Wide War!
Vecchio Merda Danzband is an all-girl dance group from Turin, made up of women who (might) dance to the music they (might) create, demystifying all the aspects of contemporary society which they are part of.
DEEP PROFUNDIS
Suite for dance, voice, brain interface and synthesizers. By Paolo F. Bragaglia (synth and music director), Davide Mancini (synth and control), Simona Lisi (dance and voice (Ancona/IT)
In Deep Profundis, the dancer and performer Simona Lisi uses BI1 Brainterface, the first system in the world designed to measure the intensity of brainwaves and use them to pilot sound and light systems, developed by Davide Mancini of Soundmachines.
The actions, thoughts and emotions of the performer activate and receive information through a gestural, musical and visual co-creation that originates in the subconscious and proliferates on stage, evoking a profound “augmented reality”.
Paolo F. Bragaglia, electronic composer, works with moving pictures, architectonic spaces, the visual arts, words and sets; Simona Lisi is an actress, dancer, author and pedagogue; Davide Mancini is a musician and software developer for an electronic and software design firm.
ULTRA MAGNETIC CRYSTAL BLEED
A/V Performance, by Von Tesla and Sara Bonaventura (Treviso/IT)
A magma of bits bursts through the screen; liquid crystals shatter and bleed. What’s inside erupts. The sky becomes an abyss, where everything starts anew.
Von Tesla, musician and sound designer, manipulates synthetic sequences on tape, creating profound and immersive soundscapes and spaces among the most exciting on the Italian techno-music scene; Sara Bonaventura, art historian and visual artist, explores cut-ups, eastern-European animation, expanded cinema and the sense of the grotesque in pulsating DIY video productions.