Square

5 and 6 September, from 11 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm – FIU

An interactive installation, a multimedia piece, and performative action. Square is hard to define: it combines Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch’s musical knowledge and Michele Di Stefano’s fluid and unconventional creativity. This installation is perfectly fitted into the urban spaces of the city where it is hosted, each time giving rise to an unprecedented piece, where the audience – equipped with a headset – is immersed into a sound universe that is capable of expanding what is real towards the unreal . During this artistic promenade, the audience will receive images in their smartphone and will be led by a guiding voice to explore spaces and experiences, interacting with the electronic device with which storytelling will be activated. To participate, the audience is requested to bring their smartphone (operative system IOS 9.0.1, Android 4.3.0 or later versions) and headphones or earbuds.

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch (Milano, 1973) is a composer. He graduated in architecture (Italy) and composition (France) and after living in Spain for a while, he moved to Paris where he now lives and works. He has had many professional in depth experiences, and is currently a lecturer in multimedia composition at Franche-Comté University in France, in the Multimedia Department since 2004 and also professor in the conservatory of Montbeliard, France. He composed music for albums, installations, theater, images, performances. He composed the music for many contemporary dance shows of the dance company MK, (Rome) commissioned by: Biennale di Venezia, Festival Sant’Arcangelo, Roma Europa…) and in tour worldwide (Europe, Japan, Indonesia, USA…) His interests span from instrumental composition with real time electronic (mixed music/MAX-MSP-jitter), to audio and video installations to soundtracks and compositions for theater and dance, stemming from a formally strict process of experimentation by using electronic implemented improvisation. All this is created as a means of creation of new electro – acoustic sounds.

Full Artist Details

Conception and Composition: Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Research and development: David Poirier-Quinot, Benjamin Matuszewski
Voice off lind: Fiorenza Menni
Background: Michele di Stefano
Assistant: Victor Audouze
In collaboration with: David Poirier-Quinot, Olivier Warusfel (Espaces acoustiques et cognitifs,IRCAM-STMS), Norbert Schnell, Frederic Bevilacqua, Benjamin Matuszewski (Interaction son musique mouvement, IRCAM-STMS), consulenti scientifici IRCAM
In the context of: Artistic Research Residency di IRCAM
Production: IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Ornithology Productions
Co-production: KLM, Festival Danza Urbana
Executive producer: PLATÔ
With the participation of: Marco Pasqualicchio , Giovanni Ginocchini, Valentina Picello, Massimo Carosi, Benno Steinegger, Deborah Lopatin, Szuwha Wu, Amir Elsaffar.
This event was possible thanks to the collaboration of: ATER – Circuito Multidisciplinare, FIU - Fondazione per l'Innovazione Urbana