{"id":9526,"date":"2024-05-21T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=9526"},"modified":"2024-05-21T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:08:30","slug":"masbedo-art-project-milan","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/masbedo-art-project-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritratto di citt\u00e0: MASBEDO&#8217;s art project focused on Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"A multi-channel video, an immersive installation, a series of sound performances, projections and a dense calendar of meetings and events. These are the many \u201cchapters\u201d that make up \u201cRitratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20,000Hz)\u201d, the project realised by MASBEDO \u2012 the duo formed by Nicol\u00f2 Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni \u2012 , which also includes the catalogue of the same name published by Marsilio Arte and edited by Cloe Piccoli. Among the winners of the eleventh edition of the Italian Council, the contest announced by Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture to promote Italian art in thae world, the project involves important national and international institutions including SODA \u2012 School of Digital Arts in Manchester, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Museo del Novecento and Triennale in Milan and MAXXI in Rome. The focus of the work \u2012 which will be included in the Museo del Novecento\u2019s collections \u2012 is the city of Milan and the Studio di Fonologia RAI founded by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna in 1955. The curator Cloe Piccoli describes the project through the pages of the catalogue<br \/>\r\n<h2>THE BOOK DEDICATED TO MASBEDO&#8217;S PROJECT<\/h2><br \/>\r\nMASBEDO\u2019s <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em> springs from Nicol\u00f2 Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni\u2019s bent for investigating forgotten stories, odd fragments, gaps in time and research conducted out of sight: things in which, it must be said, they uncover an extraordinary amount of energy. One of these is the story of the RAI Studio di Fonologia in Milan founded by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna in 1955, and officially opened in 1956. A fundamental story for electronic music and musique concr\u00e8te and for phonology. An experience that today, viewed from a contemporary perspective, sparks off new processes and visions. <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em> is a reenactment of Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Roberto Leydi\u2019s <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0<\/em> (1954), a synergy of actions which re-creates in the present day that potent short-circuit between radio and city, a convergence of avant-garde research and public service.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMASBEDO\u2019s work, which consists of a multichannel video, an immersive installation, a series of acoustic performances, a public program and this volume, is inspired by Berio and Maderna\u2019s interest in the city as a political and social organism. Berio and Maderna\u2019s city was an aural one, made up of urban noises, suspensions, silences, found occasions and invented sounds, reproduced at the RAI\u2019s Studio di Fonologia. Here the composers created unprecedented and unheard-of assemblages of sound through the use of new machines and means for their production, modulation and recording, together with the legendary sound engineer Marino Zuccheri. Today the approach taken in the early years of the Studio di Fonologia, refined through modern technology in the interpretation of the composers and sound designers G.U.P. Alcaro and Davide Tomat, resonates with the contemporary metropolis in MASBEDO\u2019s work.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe initial focus of MASBEDO\u2019s project was to imagine how to reactivate that process of vision and that experience of the city of Milan today, and above all how to realize that passage, that spillover, from sound to moving picture. MASBEDO are among the most interesting of contemporary artists working on the interactions between images, sounds and performance. In <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em>, a video made in two chapters, the shots zoom in on the microscopic and pan out to observe the whole, before plunging back in again. <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz) <\/em>enters and exits from places, studios, buildings and urban spaces so as to create a specific, energetic and potent context, made up of sounds, performances and moving images. To reactivate the heroic and bounteous experience described by Roberto Leydi, author of the text of the <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0<\/em>, after whose production the Studio di Fonologia would open its doors: \u201cThe Piccolo Teatro, the Pomeriggi Musicali, the Polytechnic and the Studio di Fonologia were able to spring from a landscape devastated and oppressed by a myriad contingent necessities of material survival\u201d recalled Leydi, \u201cbecause a small group of madmen, some from Milan and others from many different places, did not know that the realization of their dreams was rationally impossible, but also because the city was going through, as it waited for the imminent descent of the humdrum, an extraordinary moment of human and cultural vitality and desperate illusion.\u201d [\u2026]<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMASBEDO\u2019s <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em> is a context-specific work in line with some of the most interesting contemporary research. In other words, it is no longer just site specific, like some glorious works of the 1970s, connected with and referring to a particular place, but develops a complex system of signs, energies, images and sounds that draw on historical, political and social sources, on urban topographies and on archive materials; a system that itself becomes a context. <em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em> regards a broad compass, inside and outside the video, that reactivates concepts and includes external and unexpected interferences. This set of elements extends even further, creating a situation in flux that is open and fluid, verging on the provisional. A context in movement, in which the space of the installation is no longer solely a significant sum of objects and images, but organic material determined by the \u201cmutual compenetration between subject and environment, body and space, life and medium.\u201d A sphere distilled by the act of reactivation in an organic time in which the vision of postwar Milan extends beyond the documentary to frame the city in the space of the present installation.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em> is located on the boundary between forms and frequencies, planning and chance, museum and street, art and life, giving concrete expression each time to different transitory experiences and communities that like the work itself enter into its context and turn it into \u201ca complex interplay of dislocations and relocations.\u201d The images that flow through MASBEDO\u2019s montage installed at the Museo del Novecento interface with their setting. The shots of the RAI studios on Corso Sempione punctuated by Gio Ponti\u2019s acoustic panels, with that hexagonal table, the oscilloscopes of the 1980s and the computers of the day, interact with real images of the city that enter the work through the large windows looking onto Piazza Duomo, while the sounds of the video \u2012 produced live during the shooting by G.U.P. Alcaro and Davide Tomat \u2012 amplify the architecture of the studios, evoking their spectral, energetic echo through micro-sampling and buffering in real time. The intention is to create an \u201cauditory topography of the setting\u201d on the basis of the perpetual feedback between the nine microphones (just as there were nine oscillators in the studio), and the speakers in the room. Like the images, the sound is projected outside its own space and time. In fact the composition resounds in other parts of the city captured in MASBEDO\u2019s video.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Cloe Piccoli<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe text is taken from the book<em> MASBEDO. <\/em><em>Ritratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20.000Hz)<\/em>, Marsilio Arte, Venice 2024","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[341],"class_list":["post-9526","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","categorie_magazine-books-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ritratto di citt\u00e0: MASBEDO&#039;s art project focused on Milan - Marsilio Arte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A multi-channel video, an immersive installation, a series of sound performances, projections and events make up the project by MASBEDO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/masbedo-art-project-milan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ritratto di citt\u00e0: MASBEDO&#039;s art project focused on Milan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A multi-channel video, an immersive installation, a series of sound performances, projections and a dense calendar of meetings and events make up \u201cRitratto di citt\u00e0 (20\/20,000Hz)\u201d, the project by MASBEDO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/masbedo-art-project-milan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marsilio Arte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MASBEDO_Ritratto-di-citta_IC11_courtesy-MASBEDO_11-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/masbedo-art-project-milan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/masbedo-art-project-milan\/\",\"name\":\"Ritratto di citt\u00e0: MASBEDO's art project focused on Milan - 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