Soundtrack from the "light the magic box" art installation, 2002-2003.
Audio mix.

light the magic box (sample copy)

drain (soundtrack from "topic #2" video)

dreamer's white lure (soundtrack from "topic #3" video)

evergreen (SAMPLE COPY), 2007
Audio installation, 00:02:32

This installation was set up for DEDALO exhibition using a CD player interconnected with an old telephone handset. The visitors had to hold a button to start and listen the piece.

A pristine earth, prehistoric, cradle of our civilization.
A primitive and lush world where an anachronistic chant is heard, as if it was an ancient lullaby of which you don't know the meaning any more. The repeating of unknown cosmic periods, dreadful climatic upheavals and geological revolutions have erased the history once again, in the alternation of lost civilizations lasting only in the legend.
The singing makes us sharing the Cosmos, it dispels in the atmosphere and then in space, leaving just a distorted echo. Like a singing even the whole mankind can dispel.

evergreen (sample copy), 2007

Music for the soundtrack of my video "aim", instrumental version, 2009
Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/11277040

no more crime, babe (instrumental)

"revelation of chaos and consequent love forms" (SAMPLE COPY), 2009
Audio sample

revelation of chaos and consequent love forms (sample copy)

Music adaptation for the soundtrack of my video "nothing happened", 2012
Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/44506126

More informations on the "nothing happened" suite of artworks:
http://thecriticalartist.blogspot.com/2013/11/nothing-happened.html

Giuseppe Verdi’s Libiamo ne’ lieti calici aria from La traviata

Music and words for the soundtrack of my video entitled "reaction", 2014-2105
Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/130843777

gate to nowhere

The Italian Jobless
Friday 20 June 2014
Palazzo del Lavoro
Corso Unità d'Italia
Turin, Italy

This audio file is the recording of the final representation held at Palazzo del Lavoro (Job Building) of Turin, Italy.

See full version here: http://vimeo.com/99191867

In the movie “The Italian Job”, directed in 1969 by Peter Collinson, a gang of English thieves decides to perform a hit in Turin robbing the convoy transporting FIAT's gold.
Today, Italian people are overwhelmed by financial crisis and by an unemployment reaching even professions that until yesterday were a steady guarantee of employment.
Italian people, incapable of rise up against fiscal dictatorship of the country having the highest taxation in the world (source: TTR report by PWC), humbly reinvent themselves begging in the desert, searching for a “great idea” as in the forlorn situation of the movie ending.

The audio performance “The Italian Jobless” conceived by Benna has followed an episodic itinerary in five stops around the suburbs of Turin to end with an overall representation at the Palazzo del Lavoro, symbolic example of the ruinous Italian economy.

The Italian Jobless

I'm Eighty (music video), 2015-2024
Parodic cover song. Audio, 2’55”

Parody cover of 1970 song I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper.

Music has been re-arranged and tuned to 432 Hz, while lyrics have been dedicated to metaphysical and societal topics about elders and wisdom.

Watch the music-video on Someone Else's Strains - Benna's cover songs channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5hLqViBZes
https://www.youtube.com/@JSEsS - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl6ilDSsYiwyHqgowmT6U_g



LYRICS
Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from the ups and downs
Even thou wrinkles were not in my plans
I was a boy, now an old man

I'm eighty, but I recall what I was
Eighty, and I just know what I want
Eighty, I gotta find a way
I gotta find how to evade
And run from your stoopid maze, a mess!

I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart
For eighty years I felt just fine
Don't always talk of what I'm knowing about
It seems I'm livin' in a world of mine

For I'm eighty, you are confusing my way
Eighty, so I don't know what to say
Eighty, I gotta get away

While lines form on my face and my hands
Lines whirl on your lefts and rights
I keep my wrinkles, while you keep your nonsense
I was a boy, now an old man

I'm eighty and I like it
Yes, I like it
Oh, I like it, love it, like it, love it
Eighty, eighty, eighty, eighty and I like it

I'm Eighty (432 Hz parody cover of I'm Eighteen)

the black album 
2016 
Audio record, 25’25” 

This compilation includes only the first 4 tracks.

The full 13 tracks album is supplied in both gapless and as separate tracks versions.
You can Preview and get it as digital download from http://bennagaeanmaris.bandcamp.com/ and in a limited art edition of 50 multiples packaged in a soft case covered in black velvet, including a hand painted CD with both versions plus an exclusive extra, and a hand made, numbered and signed booklet. 

Watch the video featuring the limited edition art CD on 
vimeo.com/159609936 

NOTE 
This record is meant to be listened with a high fidelity stereo equipment and a good hearing, preferably with headphones. as it is made mainly of noise reaching the limits of the audible range, especially the bass, the audio levels have been kept lower than usual, so turn up the volume. 

Tracklist:
00 - hidden track, 1’21” 
01 - the coming, 3’06” 
02 - shaping woman, 1’26” 
03 - plunged in, 4’00” 
04 - anagogic convergence, 55” 
05 - the independent song, 3’38” 
06 - the departure, 1’14” 
07 - dying for selfies (dedicated to baby dolphins), 1’49” 
08 - the right left, 27” 
09 - cosmic callers, 3’37” 
10 - there must be something, 2’47” 
11 - wait with nonpareils, 50” 
12 - the pure and the sage, 15”

the black album - 02 shaping woman

Interdisciplinary X engaged in Y to raise awareness on Z
“Either eclecticism or boredom”

I'm Eighty (432 Hz parody cover of I'm Eighteen)

bennagaeanmaris

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