Polisonum
A cinque voci
Come un rituale laico che segna un passaggio quotidiano attraverso il suono, l’installazione sonora si compone anche di tre lunghi drappi bianchi che fuoriescono dalla balconata della torre: mossi dal vento o immobili, agitati, calmi, sono imprevedibili come il nostro stesso respiro.
Polisonum, A cinque voci, 2021, Torre del Castello Carlo Gesualdo, Gesualdo (AV), Campania. Ph. Danilo Donzelli
The collective made up of Filippo Lilli (Mottola, 1987), Donato Loforese (Castellaneta, 1984) and Federico Peliti (Rome, 1983), it was formed in 2014 and combines sound production and visual art with performance and new technologies. Polisonum uses sound as a method and as an investigation device to explore the metamorphosis in historical and contemporary places, in landscapes and in geographies. Its research is aimed at the listening to and the interpretation of the natural or anthropic places where it operates, through installations that translate into the restitution of sound traces. Among its most recent exhibitions and projects, we mention: RAM – Radioartemobile and Fondazione VOLUME! in Rome, in 2020; ‘In Vitro Sound Art exhibition’ in Matera and Romaeruopa Festival – Digitalive in Rome in 2019.
Gesualdo is a village of 3,483 residents in Campania, in the province of Avellino, which is 32km away. Known as the «city of the prince of musicians» in memory of the Prince of Venosa and madrigal composer, Carlo Gesualdo, it stands in the central Irpinia area, between the Ansanto valley and the Ufita River. Franco Battiato and Igor’ Fëdorovič Stravinskij have dedicated musical compositions to this area. The castle came out of the Longobard age as a defensive outpost, and was transformed into a noble residence after the marriage of Carlo Gesualdo and Eleonora D’Este.