Artist:        Roberto Paci Dalo
Title:          NAPOLI ATLAS | ©
Date:         2009
Duration:   7′00

photo by: Roberto Paci Dalo

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THE SOUND

“Napoli Atlas” is the natural development of a ongoing work about Napoli, started in 1993 with the sound and mixed-media installation “Napoli”. In 2009 has been created the sound/video installation “Atlas of Emotion Stream” and this piece is part of it. The work was based on the city’s soundscape, the acoustical secrets of the city at various moments of day and night.  The sound landscape is collected through a gradual and progressive approach, a drift into the memory of the city like an acoustical film without images.  “Napoli Atlas” is an inner volcanic journey that starts from the surface of an almost anonymous place, a coffee bar.  The coffee bar is a place of well-being, the place where quickness (the espresso) and the mundane of the coffee routine cohabit, an alchemical and ritualistic place.  The bar is a gathering of sounds, an overlapping of acoustical streams.

THE ARTIST

Italian artist Roberto Paci Dalò (born Rimini, IT) is the director of the group Giardini Pensili and Velvet Factory – space for the arts (Rimini).  His work has won him international admiration and support from, among others, John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov.  Member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin and recipient in 1993 of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD Fellowship.  His work – music, film, radio, theatre, drawing, installations, performance, sensorial design – has been presented throughout North and South America, Russia, Middle East, and Europe.  He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Opera House, Ars Electronica Linz, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Biennale di Venezia, MaerzMusik / Berliner Festspiele and more.  Border breaking collaborations include Kronos Quartet, Maurizio Cattelan, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, Olga Neuwirth, Kurt Hentschläger, Terry Riley, Philip Jeck.  His latest book, edited together with Enrico Pitozzi, is Electroscene dedicated to the relationship between image and sound in the electronic international landscape (Napoli 2010).  Paci Dalò was born in Rimini and spent his childhood on the Lake Garda (Italy), he currently lives and works in Rimini with residencies in Vancouver, B.C.

links: www.giardini.sm | www.velvet.it