> SHORT SUMMARY

RUMINANZE 0002 | TAKE A BREATH 00:04:00 - 2007

Audiovisual J.Lee, M. Chiantone

Presented at the Festival Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques - Bourges\France -

SPECIAL MENTION

JEANNE LEE'S TAKE A BREATH IS THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS PIECE: ITS ARTLESSNESS AND DEPTH OF MEANING IN
EXPRESSING THE BASIC TRUTHS OF LIFE AND DEATH WERE IDEAL FOR AN EXPERIMENT IN FRAGMENTING AND
RECONSTRUCTING SOUND AND MEANING.
THE FIRST LEVEL OF FRAGMENTATION WAS THE TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT FROM THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN ENGLISH INTO
FRENCH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN, THUS AUGMENTING THE PHONETIC VARIABLES.
THE SECOND LEVEL WAS THE UNEVEN CUTTING OF THE WORDS AND SENTENCES OF BOTH THE ORIGINAL AND THE
TRANSLATIONS.
THE APEX OF THE COMPOSING PROCESS WAS THE CREATION OF GRAPHIC SIGNS USED AS MUSICAL SYMBOLS: EACH
SYMBOL REPRESENTED THE PHONETIC VALUE FOR THE
PERFORMING VOICE.
THUS FOUR TRACKS, EACH IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, WERE RECORDED BY THE PERFORMER IN FRONT OF A DIGITAL
CAMERA USING THE CAMERA'S MIKE; THEN THE IMAGE/SOUND TRACKS WERE COMPUTER EDITED INTO A COHERENT WHOLE.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT IS TO UNDERLINE THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF MUSIC AS GIVING VALUE AND
COHESIVENESS TO DIFFERENCES CREATING CHAOS, PERHAPS, OUT OF ORDER AND LIFE OUT OF CHAOS.
THE BACKGROUND PHOTO IN THE VIDEO IS "LE BAISER, BORDIGHERA 1982" BY H. NEWTON

ON YOUTUBE > https://youtu.be/iI4WGmRkZJM

ON YOUTUBE > https://youtu.be/-M-bPJghb2M
RUMINANZE 0002 | TAKE A BREATH 50’ - 2009
Intermodal Happening. J.Lee, M. Chiantone, Shakyamuni Buddha

Take a breath, an intermodal happening, originates from a text.

This pièce was born from lyrics [lyrics of a song by Jeanne lee, an Afroamerican jazz singer who was part of the
'60s' avantgarde movement] broken and then elaborated with music, film, dance, acting and symbols called,
time after time, into being.
The contents of the show are developed on different aspects of communication by a continuous and
emotional mediatic fruition.
The performance represents the ancestral theme of life and death; breath, childhood, the universality of
existence, its decline; all contents present in the inspiring text that become magnetic poles and the invisible
thread that unites scene and artists.
This is the scenario, the tale of a remote, contemporary and future place and time in which menakind will
keep on fearing and overcoming their fear, showing themselves and the world that, when love leavens life,
ignorance, death and impermanence cease to be.
The place hosting the performance is simple and essential to allow for maximum visibility and importance to
the actions scheduled in it; freedom of movement, creative improvisation and interaction between subjects
(music, dance) and objects (media)

Breath, childhood, the universality of life: all meanings that characterise the inspiring text become
attractors and invisible threads between et and actors.
Take A Breath is born from a text and yields to music, video, dance, acting, symbol, as they are
called into being, the function of coordinating and correlating feelings and textual meanings. The
subject matter is developed on different communication levels by a continuous and emotional
enjoyment.

ARTISTS
BUTOH DANCE | YUMIKO YOSHIOKA
VIDEO, DOUBLE BASS, VOICE| MAURIZIO CHIANTONE
PIANO, ELECTRONICS | GIOSUÈ GRASSIA
CONSOLLE, PHOTOGRAPHY | ANDREA BOVE
VOICES | VALENTINA ABBRUZZESE, ELENA FURNO, NADIA PERFETTO, NATALÌ ROSSI

ON YOUTUBE THIS VIDEO PERFORMANCE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS TO STREAMLINE THE OVERALL WEIGHT:

TAKE A BREATH 01 | RUMINANZE 0002 | 2009 --- HTTP://YOUTU.BE/ZKOWLZFTOYK

TAKE A BREATH 02 | RUMINANZE 0002 | 2009 --- HTTP://YOUTU.BE/2ZB3DN-HGHI
TAKE A BREATH 03 | RUMINANZE 0002 | 2009 --- HTTP://YOUTU.BE/NZWSODG4X0S
LOVELESS DI MAURIZIO CHIANTONE
ACTION SOUNDING

PAN - PALACE OF THE ARTS OF NAPLES | ITALY

THEN.
I LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND SEE A ROOF WITH ITS TILES, THEN ANOTHER AND ANOTHER, TWO VINTAGE ANTENNAS AND A PARABOLA,
THE BACK OF AN OLD BRICK HOUSE, A RED SKYLIGHT AND, IMMEDIATELY AFTER, A HUGE MILKY BACKGROUND INSIDE WHICH YOU CAN
SEE THE SILHOUETTE OF TWO SILENT AND QUIET MOUNTAINS ...

EVEN THE RAIN IS LYING AS IF SHE SMOKED THE CIGAR, WHILE BEATING AND DRUMMING EVERYTHING THAT TOUCHES.
IT IS NOT INTRUSIVE. IT'S JUST A RAIN THAT DOES NOT BOTHER YOU AS IT FALLS.
THIS IS ALSO LOVE.
LOVE THAT THROUGH THE LIGHT RAISES AND REFINES THE POWER OF THE EYES.
IMPALPABLE LOVE BUT THAT YOU FEEL STRONG IN YOUR BREATH. TRUE, INTENSE.
LIKE THE PENETRATING AND SINCERE SOUND THAT I FELT BEFORE. THE CHANT OF AN ADOLESCENT BLURRED IN INFINITY.
FIRE AND WATER, SOUL CONCERT, SPIRIT OF THE FATHERS.
WHIFFS IN THE MIND.
SCREAMS OF RAGE WHEN THEY ARE NOT OF THE PAIN.
THE COLD DENYING PEACE RAGING BETWEEN THE BRANCHES AND THE PATHS, THE HOUSES, THE THINGS.
WHO DRAWS WITH BLACK A MALIGNANT, OBSCURE STREAK.
WHICH SLOWLY SWELLS IN THE COLOR OF THE AIR AND CARESSES PETTY, ENVELOPS PERFIDIOUS, THE CONFUSED HEART.
EQUILIBRIUM.
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF JODOROWSKY AND A CLOCKWORK ORANGE OF KUBRICK
CAN ART DRAW THE FUTURE?
RESEARCH PUSH TO OVERCOME THE LIMIT?
THE PHILOSOPHY TO DO US BETTER?
FAITH TO LOVE?
THE RAIN HAS STOPPED.
SHE LEFT, QUIET AS WHEN SHE ARRIVED.
I REMAIN WRAPPED BY A BACKGROUND NOISE.
THIN HISSES AND LIGHT; MAYBE THEY ARE THE SOUNDS OF MY BODY, A VOICE INSIDE, THE RADIODRAMA OF THE SOUL, PULSES
CONNECTED TO THE SPACE.
AND THE MECHANICAL BALLET OF THE FINGERS ON THE KEYS.
TICKING OF PASSION.
I LOVE.
TO MY FRIEND ANTONIO NEIWILLER - TEATRO DEI MUTAMENTI - NAPOLI
ARTISTS
SOUND E VISUAL DESIGNER, PERFORMER, LIVE IPAD, IPHONE, DOUBLE BASS | MAURIZIO CHIANTONE
READING AND ACTING | CRISTINA DONADIO
PHOTO DESIGNER | ANDREA BOVE
IPAD SOUND CONTROL | ENRICO POFI
TROMBONE, PERFORMER | GIUSEPPE SAVINO

YOUTUBE
LOVELESS | RUMINANZE 0004 | 2011 --- HTTP://YOUTU.BE/8UTEHTV3VPC
NUDI BY MAURIZIO CHIANTONE
ACTION SOUNDING

THEATER AND ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FORM THE ORIGINAL MOMENT OF NAKED, TRIBUTE TO CARMELO BENE, 10 YEARS AFTER ITS
DISAPPEARANCE.

ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, IN PROHIBITION TO UNVEIL AND SINCOPATED HUMAN VOICES, SET UP AS GENUINE ARTIFICIAL INSTRUMENTS.
ACTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS, DESIGN, CONCEPTS AND INSTALLATIONS BY MAURIZIO CHIANTONE

ARTISTS
CARMELO BENE | RADIO AND TV DIALOGS
CRISTINA DONADIO | NARRATION AND ACTING
MAURIZIO CHIANTONE | DOUBLE BASS, IPHONE, BIPHONE, PERCUSSION, REAKTOR.
GIUSEPPE SAVINO |TROMBONE, PERCUSSION
ENRICO POFI | IPAD, SOUND SEARCHES
ROSANNA DE LUCIA | DESIGN LYCRA SCULPTURES
ANDREA BOVE |PHOTO DESIGNER

YOUTUBE
NUDI | RUMINANZE 0006 | 2012 --- HTTP://YOUTU.BE/EUSQWCJYQNY
XOFONO.
French Institute of Naples | Italy

concept, care and direction by Maurizio Chiantone

It is a sensitive and interactive matrix container.

Capable of generating sensory visions and stimuli through contact and, above all, creative and shared
participation.

In the flow of exchanges, placements, paths, alternations, roles, somehow the way of gaming is perceived
and at the same time a path that leads to the natural construction of a network of connections, a human and
phenomenal network.
In the game, through the fun and combining experience transverse and subliminal messages intervene,
creators and advocates of the growth of the spirit of personal research and of the critical sense; of a greater
awareness of the Human Being. Expressed in positive.
Man 2.0
That is, the conviction, the will to continue the journey in the real world, aiming for a renewal, a reconstruction
or rather to an ethical and social reaffirmation, anthroposophic and cultural aspects of our human figure.
Use past history and witnesses firmly in the present, relying on it freely and giving power to the imagination, one
seed after another to the future.

DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF SPACE

The cinema room | the theater of the French Institute of Naples has been redesigned following a specific
goal: making it a musical and visual instrument, reconstructing it according to a criterion halfway between the
craftsmanship of a liar and the analytical-scientific approach of an engineer.
10 rows of chairs in front of the stage for a total of 250 seats, wired one after the other and made sensitive by
contact thanks to physical sensing sensors;
2 high resolution and wide-angle webcam capable of recording the information pertaining to only one place
used in the room and reproducing that place in an image pixel on the movie screen, exactly where the
place, in the virtual matrix of 250 pixels in which has been subdivided the screen, is located.
This logic entails the necessary filling of all seats to be able to read and see the whole room, with its viewers, on
the screen.
The instrument, the XoFono, sounds and is heard thanks to a 6 + 1 surround system that envelops the
audience / artist and involves it in the show he made…
In the spirit of the event, Man 2.0 becomes possible if we are able to share and aggregate, since it is
impossible to achieve the goal or approximate it.
It was indisputable and due a tribute to the French Institute that hosted the installation/event: for this reason
the fil rouge that echoed the great French traditions was Claude Debussy, composer and pianist, genius and
poet in music, among others great representatives of the French school.
Debussy had been fascinated by a gamelan orchestra during the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889 and this
curiosity had influenced some of his works…
Of the gamelan, which is a rather complex structure of Indonesian origin, a pentaphonic scale has been used,
the sléndro; distributing the notes that make up her on about 250 seats, through a study of the intersections
and overlaps of the sounds between them, so, even in the case of clusters, they did not have to produce
unwanted effects.

R.I.O.T | | RUMINANZE 0007 | 2011

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

MADRE MUSEUM | NAPLES - ITALY

ATLAS to MADRE

with events and live broadcasts on Radio 3

...Dozens of musicians bring their instruments to the MADRE. Play for free, with events and live broadcasts on
Radio 3. Not a concert, but many sound events around the museum. Will meet in a place that tells the
transformation, which explores the life, giving voice to the contradictions of reality.
Let's make a political gesture: contemporary music for contemporary art.

REPERTOIRE

Maurizio Chiantone | RIOT

sound installation for harmonics, metal, wood, human and environment


Maurizio Chiantone | double bass, vocal, sounds - 


Paolo Licastro | sax soprano, indian flute, shalmeau, shawm - 

Rosanna De Lucia | scene, costumes - 

Luisa Bove | dance

Maurizio Chiantone | Director

Luciano Ferrara and Roberta Basile | photos :: Wine&Foto

on Youtube > https://youtu.be/MZkdEQ3w72E

Soundscape of Museum of Main Tower of Villa Rufolo by Maurizio Chiantone

He composes the music, the soundtrack and effects, sound design and sound spatialization for the Museum of
Main Tower of Villa Rufolo by the Ravello Foundation [Salerno - Italy].

on Youtube > https://youtu.be/pgT9cNHVi_0

S\Oggetto
BY MAURIZIO CHIANTONE

PERFORMANCE FOR
AEROPHONES, BODIES, TEXTURE, COLOURS, TEXT, PUBLIC, PLASTIC, VISUAL WOOD, ELECTROACOUSTIC.

The project is focused on the educational aspect through the representation of the principle of individual
freedom in relation to the values of human rights and duties contained in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. The performance that we present, wants to highlight through sounds and body, just the symbolic
crossing that by the purity of the birth brings us to adolescence and then to adulthood with a heavy load and
especially confused about what we are, what we do and where we are going.
The performance embodies the birth and growth toward the age of reason.
During this "age of reason", today, ordinary people, influenced by so much information, by economic pressure,
cultural confusion and from the objective fears consequence of a troubled period of history, complex and
often fraught with negativity, manifest more fragility and less confidence in their ability to create value, to
reach important objectives and to fully express all their potential; in this context, social barriers, the use of
indiscriminate and uncontrolled power of those who possess it; the arrogance, greed and presumption of
those individuals concentrated in the centers of economic management, political and social, combined with
occult forces and cohesive, constitutes with fear, a dramatic stop to the flight into the future in which every
man or woman has right. This condition is like an opium of the mind, a rope that holds our body and prevents
us from taking actions, an invisible prison. But the freedom of the soul, the conscience, the ideals, the self-
emancipation, the dreams, the desires, is unassailable.
Untouchable. The voice of the heart can not be gagged nor can remain silent but will touch one by one
million of voices; The Songlines [cit. B. Chatwin] become the battle's cry of struggle and victory to reaffirm the
centrality of man and his right to dignity and respect for life.

Duration: 45m
Names of performers:
sonic performers AUE [aerophones united ensemble] \ maurizio chiantone, gaetano corallo, giosuè grassia,
lorenzo lustri, marco olivieri, enrico pofi, giuseppe savino, michele tuozzolo
sonic body \ mattia di mauro, marie-thérèse sitzia
vestale, fashion, make up designer \ rosanna de lucia
photo & video\ enrico pofi
wood consultant \ gianni battimiello
white writer \ marilУ mustilli
whisperings \ public

RUMINANZE ©
In his open performative dimension, Ruminanze enacts a series of aesthetic processes that open spaces of
unexpected interaction between the artists, based on shared in temporarily assets, or simply built on the
meeting that occurs by chance, determined from living the same place and the same time in a transitory
manner.
Here, the performance is not and is not just site-specific: it should rather through a set of context-specific
practices, geared to a context that is one pluriverse space, where converge in an unpredictable way the
resonances of the place, the voices, echoes of artists.

It is in this stream of bodies, sounds and movements that builds the experience of Ruminanze, generated by an
encounter that is both material and imaginary, amplified by ambiguity, by imponderability and by the power
of the sound’s experience.

leandro pisano

URL of the archive file described below:

audio: https://soundcloud.com/buxreal/soggetto
audiovideo: https://youtu.be/LOHtWgeT-Ow
RUMINANZE 0013 | 2016
presenta
In Cesco

Opera collettiva per

Suoni, azioni artistiche performative, giardino pensile, cani, zanzare, pale eoliche, aglianico.

ATTORI
Maurizio Chiantone :: Favophono, Contrabbasso, Launeddas, Tubo corrugato, iPhone, Voce;
Giuseppe Savino :: Trombone;
Gaetano Corallo :: Sax soprano;
Mauro Marigliano :: Tromba;
Diego Mazzoni :: Batteria, Percussioni;
DHARMA BUMS Exp Folk DUO:
Matteo Colasanti :: Chitarra Elettrica, Santoor, Tamburo armonico, Kaoss synth & Laura Desideri :: Canto,
Canto armonico, Canto overdubbing, Organetto 8 bassi;
Michele Tuozzolo :: Percussioni, Poesie;
Adriana De Manes :: Interventi visivi;
Gianni Battimiello, Andrea Bove, Rosanna De Lucia, Salvatore Manzi, Luca Sivelli | Luigi Moio :: Installazioni;
Peppe Buonanno :: Performance corrugata;
Enrico Pofi :: Fotografie, iPad;
Giacomo Michele Attruia, Enzo Falchi :: Fonica;
Raffaele Silvestri :: Supporto audio, video riprese;
Macelleria 2000 di Mario Mauriello :: Carne alla brace

Concept Ruminanze© :: Maurizio Chiantone

Critic script :: Leandro Pisano
ARCHÈ
CONCEPT, COORDINAMENTO E ATTIVITÀ A CURA DI
MAURIZIO CHIANTONE
4 INSTALLAZIONI INTERATTIVE | CLASSE DI VIDEO MUSIC
MOSTRA PERMANENTE NEI sOTTERRANEI DELL’ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI URBINO
10\13 MAGGIO 2017

Le attività laboratoriali svolte con gli studenti di Video Music sono state improntate sulla realizzazione di un
progetto immersivo che prevede, presso i sotterranei dell’Accademia, quattro diverse installazioni audiovisuali
e interattive che rappresentino, nella logica di un percorso museale, lo spirito e gli avvenimenti del luogo
nell’ambito sociale, storico e culturale attraverso una sintesi narrativa e comunicativa con un focus sul suono
messo in relazione al segno. Il suono diventa anello di congiunzione e fil rouge fra le epoche [dal XIV sec. ad
oggi] e il vissuto dei sotterranei collegato ai diversi scenari percettivi.

ASSENZE - Youtube - - - https://youtu.be/pvl4Hekt6Cc

A CURA DI GIZEM CELIK - SAMUELE COMMENDATORE - SARA DE BENEDICTIS - PIETRO SOLARI
Ogni assenza implica sempre una presenza, perchè è proprio ciò a instaurare un sentimento di vuoto e di
mancanza. L’installazione rappresenta la condizione mentale che oscilla tra desiderio e realtà di un’infanzia
violata, messa in relazione con lo stato di prigionia vissuta dai minori ai tempi in cui l’attuale Accademia era
un riformatorio minorile.

LUMEN GENTIUM - Youtube - - - https://youtu.be/i2ghA6KIa1U

A CURA DI EUGENIO FORCHIELLI - HAN PEISHAN - VANESSA INGIARDI
La luce, simbolo del cristianesimo, del vero e del manifesto, è il motore dell’installazione artistica ospitata
nell’area sotterranea dell’ex convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi. Lo spazio ospitante evoca e rafforza il
contenuto dell’opera, espressione della vocazione divina e guida dell’uomo e del partecipante, come sintesi
di una ricerca intima e spirituale.

STRATUS - Youtube - - - https://youtu.be/zgeIFjlnZz4

A CURA DI MARCO LOPEZ - ROBERTO MONTANARO - HANFEI XIAO
Come i materiali creano una struttura architettonica, i loro suoni si uniscono in una architettura sonora.
L’interazione tattile genera un output audio che produce suoni che conservano il pas-sato del materiale e del
suo utilizzo. Il tatto permette una manifestazione vi-siva del suono generato, evocazione di un passato che
riaffiora allo spettatore.

PASSENGERS - Youtube - - - https://youtu.be/MjBKGHkDUFo

A CURA DI ENRICA MALLO - RAFFAELLA SCALANDRA - BENEDETTA SIMONCELLI
Attraverso un passaggio inaspettato vivremo un’illusione, un mondo surreale, senza mai conoscere la realtà.
Recupereremo la realtà sonora, delle diverse epoche passate per il luogo, tramite un’onda acustica.
Realtà sonora e visiva viaggeranno su strade parallele che dovranno intersecarsi in maniera perfetta in
qualsiasi momento lo spettatore lo vorrà.
PHŌNÊIN
INSTALLATION FOR SLIDING ETRA GALLERY.
STUDIO ON VOCAL QUARTETT FOR ONE PEOPLE AND VIDEO | MAURIZIO CHIANTONE

In the early 1980's, I was totally involved in a personal search for the qualities and potentialities of the human
voice: her expressive power, magical-evocative power, her spontaneous and consequent therapeutic
effects.

This path found a natural outlet in a vocal quartet.

The text, from which the composition was inspired, was translated, in addition to its original slang, in three other
languages and manipulated, decomposed, fragmented into language cells in such a way as to obtain for
each of the scriptures a matrix of phonemes become a musical score.

This experience has been integrated and reworked within this intermodal happening,
paying particular attention to the fact that some of the content characterizing the starting text, breathing,
childhood, universality of life, got an attracting pole
and invisible connection wire.

Youtube - - - https://youtu.be/-M-bPJghb2M
THE LEGEND OF THE FOUR BELLS

LIMINARIA 2016 - RURAL FUTURISM / FUTURISMO RURAL 

The story is told in an illuminated manuscript of the twelfth found in the dungeons of a Franciscan monastery
Ordo Minorum.
The performance / installation was performed with young people from Ginestra and with the contribution of
older people, historical memory and irreplaceable role in the creation narrative and representative, and had
as its dominant center of reflection the earth, the air, the wind, the ' water represented by the bell tower of the
town center, the heart, of aggregation and symbol of spiritual strength and peace.

maurizio chiantone | sound pacifist

YouTube
Performance > https://youtu.be/a3_6aG0ZC_s
Installazione > https://youtu.be/f3ee8soOpNQ
Banda > https://youtu.be/coCAZwWN9Cs

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