BookOrchestra
Wednesday, August 13th, 18:00-22:00
BaseCamp PopUp / Library
Istituto Sant’Eugenio
Via al Sasso 1, Locarno
BookOrchestra is an orchestra of books. A mash-up of voices and languages. A fragmented, fragile, ever-changing story whose meaning wavers between the sense of words, literary structures, and their sound.
Andrea Marinelli gathers a choir of readers, conducting them live and transforming their voices with live electronics to create new scores—a new sonic book. Cristian Ferretti, a polyglot and radio host, acts as the readers’ demiurge, laying the primal layer by reading the first and last lines at each performance, and selecting the most piercing and polyphonic books. At the heart of BookOrchestra are the books themselves. The project was born at Potlach, the legendary bookshop on Via Padova 65 in Milan, which for over 30 years has been rescuing and reviving these silent objects with such powerful sound.
Andrea Marinelli is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, image, and performance. He blends live electronics, visual compositions, projections, and installations. His practice extends to sculpture and printmaking on paper and fabric. Marinelli collaborates with archives and bookstores such as Potlach Milano and Centro Studi DeBenedictis. He co-authored a series of short films on visual disability with director Daniele Gaglianone. He collaborates with Musi-co, an Italian AI that generates music for video and film by deeply analyzing images. His work moves between experimentation, technology, and the poetics of perception.
Plays for RSI, Piccolo Teatro, Locarno Film Festival, Tinguely Museum Basel, Hangar Bicocca [Damian Ortega], La Tour Vagabonde, La Straordinaria, Altofest Napoli, KBCB Centre of Art Biel, MUDEC Milano, Lumpen Station, Bluenote Milano, Teatro Litta, Museo di Croce Villa Genova, Tempio del Futuro Perduto, Isole che Parlano Plau, Claps Theatres etc.
Exhibition for Palinsesti 2020, MART Rovereto, METS San Michele all'Adige, Biennale di Venezia, The ArtCompany Como, Lunetta Mantova, Museo di Torgiano, Libreria Potlach Milano etc.
In collaboration with transition radio & Radio Gwen.
BookOrchestra
Wednesday, August 13th, 18:00-22:00
BaseCamp PopUp / Library
Istituto Sant’Eugenio
Via al Sasso 1, Locarno
BookOrchestra is an orchestra of books. A mash-up of voices and languages. A fragmented, fragile, ever-changing story whose meaning wavers between the sense of words, literary structures, and their sound.
Andrea Marinelli gathers a choir of readers, conducting them live and transforming their voices with live electronics to create new scores—a new sonic book. Cristian Ferretti, a polyglot and radio host, acts as the readers’ demiurge, laying the primal layer by reading the first and last lines at each performance, and selecting the most piercing and polyphonic books. At the heart of BookOrchestra are the books themselves. The project was born at Potlach, the legendary bookshop on Via Padova 65 in Milan, which for over 30 years has been rescuing and reviving these silent objects with such powerful sound.
Andrea Marinelli is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, image, and performance. He blends live electronics, visual compositions, projections, and installations. His practice extends to sculpture and printmaking on paper and fabric. Marinelli collaborates with archives and bookstores such as Potlach Milano and Centro Studi DeBenedictis. He co-authored a series of short films on visual disability with director Daniele Gaglianone. He collaborates with Musi-co, an Italian AI that generates music for video and film by deeply analyzing images. His work moves between experimentation, technology, and the poetics of perception.
Plays for RSI, Piccolo Teatro, Locarno Film Festival, Tinguely Museum Basel, Hangar Bicocca [Damian Ortega], La Tour Vagabonde, La Straordinaria, Altofest Napoli, KBCB Centre of Art Biel, MUDEC Milano, Lumpen Station, Bluenote Milano, Teatro Litta, Museo di Croce Villa Genova, Tempio del Futuro Perduto, Isole che Parlano Plau, Claps Theatres etc.
Exhibition for Palinsesti 2020, MART Rovereto, METS San Michele all'Adige, Biennale di Venezia, The ArtCompany Como, Lunetta Mantova, Museo di Torgiano, Libreria Potlach Milano etc.
In collaboration with transition radio & Radio Gwen.