Name: Un Tardo Pomeriggio In Osteria | MeVe Sound Installation by Johann Merrich
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Una delle due Storie per le Orecchie create per accompagnare i visitatori nell'esperienza multisensoriale di "Spirito e Corpo. Fede e alimentazione in guerra", una mostra temporanea allestita al MeVe – Memoriale Veneto della Grande Guerra – dal 15 dicembre 2023 al primo giugno 2024.

Is a song about two different kind of approach of life. We have one woman that represents the capitalism, the idea of a constant race against the time anche against other persons, and on the other hand we have another woman that represents the calm, the nature, the respect for a different idea of time and humanity. 

What is the revolution, now?!


Lyrics
When I heard the revolution 
I could see the sky

When i'm looking at the future 
I think I don't kwon why

When I'm driving in my car 
I feel so happy 

When I look around my world sometimes i can feel empty

When I heard the revolution 
I could touch the ground 

Only nature in my lungs 
I breathe the clouds 

When I look at myself 
I feel so broken 

When I look at my world sometimes I can feel failed 

I can touch the sky


Drink and drink you're so sweet 
Move and move your mind is deep 
Pray and sleep 
Eat and kiss 
All that you can live 


I can touch the sky

When I Heard

1 When I Heard

[En. below]

Una canzone sul corpo e sull'anima che ad esso appartiene. 
No violence, no more.

It's a song about the body and soul that belong to it. It's a song about the wounds of the body that become wounds of the soul and vice versa. 
It's the song against all kinds of physical and psycological violence. 
It's a song dedicated to our childhood, lightness,  lost during our journey

Lyrics
Bella con in bocca un respiro
una donna cantava al grano 
Denti bianchi splendido diamante 
apriva troppo poco le gambe

Erano gambe con solchi profondi 
ed il petto in attesa di altri 
Lei seduta su un sasso cantava 
Come back home 


Le mani avevano la forma di chi non ha mai
impugnato una lancia 
Una lancia per combattere e ferire 
questi demoni da quattro lire
Quattro lire per comprarsi un gelato 
da mangiare al porto con il suo innamorato 
Andare giù al molo e salpare 
Come back home 

Baby come home please don't go 
baby come home, home 
Come back home 


Lei rimase su quel sasso impietrita 
con la bocca spaccata dal vento 
In un pozzo di fango e cemento 
come back home 
In un pozzo di quei ricordi 
in cui ieri rimane oggi 
please come back home

Please come back home

Blues del giorno dopo

Blues Del Giorno Dopo

[En. below]

Canzone impressionista. 
Il mondo fuori come specchio del mondo dentro

The song is a melting between the personal feelings and the landscape standing all around me.  I tried to represent nature all around me in notes, words and sounds.  The lyrics talk to different states of mind in a strong relationship between the interior and exterior landscape.  Mountains, sunsets and sunrises have been my inspiration.  The lyrics talk about life, that is, for each of us, a path: "one day more" to realize ourselves.


Lyrics
Un giorno in più e mi avvicino
un giorno in più guardo il mattino 
distante nel silenzio
azzurro roccia e vento 

Un giorno in più che guardo il mondo 
un giorno in più persa nel tempo 
di pioggia i miei vuoti da colmare
un passo l'altro camminare 


Un giorno in più e mi allontano 
pugni chiusi mano nella mano 
diamanti e tulipani 
terra rossa sulle mie mani

terra rossa sulle mie mani 

Sulle mie mani

Un giorno in più

It is a soundtrack composed for the exhibition "Dyonusos the beauty to be a God" set up in National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria (IT)from November to March 2018. 
 It is the journey of Dyonusos from Thrace to Greece. His cult is represented by altered state of consciousness reached by the ritual consumption of wine and wild dances.

Dyonusos - Nun Kre Methusthen

Samhain

Una delle due Storie per le Orecchie create per accompagnare i visitatori nell'esperienza multisensoriale di "Spirito e Corpo. Fede e alimentazione in guerra", una mostra temporanea allestita al MeVe – Memoriale Veneto della Grande Guerra – dal 15 dicembre 2023 al primo giugno 2024.

Un Tardo Pomeriggio In Osteria | MeVe Sound Installation

guillotinés

Chaos Theory Remixed

Splinter Cell Conviction Theme Menu

Splinter Cell: Conviction Menu Theme

Sulla composizione originale di Francesco Del Pia, studio su una possibile traduzione del poema Il Corvo di E.A.Poe

voce: Elena Griggio
musica: Francesco Del Pia
collage: Johann Merrich

Il Corvo - Edgar Allan Poe

To write this composition I was inspired by the sounds of nature, in particular the storm with the roar of strange and powerful rhythms, where water is the most frequent, most varied and richest noise.
In the structure I wanted to emphasize the multiple sensations that arise from the storm, following its rhythm and its intensity, counting moments of full sound with moments of emptiness. The composition develops in two arches.
In the first, the Thunder, a mysterious rumble that comes from far away, like a threat. His rumbles are dispersed, just weakened, a new burst takes them back and renews them. Accompanied by the sound of the rain, which creates a wonderful variety of rhythms and metal tones of the roofs and gutters and the monotonous one of the earth, with a rhythm that is only the rhythm of the rain, but which has all the crescendo and diminishing intensity for increasing and decreasing the amount of water that falls. When the rain falls with sparse drops, the general tone is low, but when it falls a lot of the general tone of the noise of the rain is much more acute.
In the second part the articulation is similar to the temporal, but instead of the naturalistic datum there is the abstract datum, in an imitative sense, to avoid monotony. In this part I tried to reproduce the variety of timbres using acoustic instruments.

Temporale

[ENGLISH Version Below]
Organizzatrice di suoni, Johann Merrich si occupa di ricerca e sperimentazione elettronica. I suoi progetti in solo ed ensemble – presentati a Santarcangelo Festival (2018) e alla Biennale D’Arte di Venezia (Padiglione Francia, 2017) – sono stati accolti come opening da artisti quali Zu, Teho Teardo, Mouse on Mars, Roedelius ed Evan Parker. Direttore artistico della netlabel electronicgirls, dal 2018  fa parte assieme a eeviac de L’Impero della Luce, duo dedicato alle sonorità dei campi elettromagnetici. Nel 2019 ha pubblicato per Arcana Edizioni il libro “Breve storia della musica elettronica e delle sue protagoniste”. A partire dal mese di maggio 2019, propone per musicaelettronica.it una nuova visione della storia della musica elettronica.
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EN
Sound organizer, Johann Merrich is dedicating her life to electronic experimentation and research. Her collective projects have been presented in the framework of festival such as Santarcangelo Festival (2018), Venice Biennale (French Pavilion, 2017) while her solo shows warmed the stage before concerts of many established artists (Zu, Teho Teardo, Mouse on Mars, Roedelius, Evan Parker…). Artistic director of electronicgirls, from 2018 she’s part of L’Impero della Luce, experimental music duo formed with eeviac and dedicated to electromagnetic sounds. In 2019 she published her second book on history of electronic music for Arcana Edizioni, Rome

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DISCOGRAPHY 
2002 - Hm?, "A lady in alabama" (with Genecyst) 
2003 - Hm?, "Anything is conductable" (with Genecyst) 
2008 - Johann Merrich, "USSR Vs Paradise (in six movements)" (www.otouv.org) 
2009 - Johann Merrich, "FRICADELIQUE! (how to be a flower-power nihilist)  on www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com 
           - Johann Merrich's Hyperion in "Clinical Anthology 2006-2009"   on www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com 
2010 -  Johann Merrich's Mato Grosso Mourning Glory In "n-o-r-mal II"  on http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/
2011 -  Johann Merrich's Energieundvandlung in "Electronicgirls Vol. 1" http://www.electronicgirls.org/wp/
2012 - Johann Merrich's DXme in "Electronicgirls Crossing the Line" http://www.electronicgirls.org/wp/
2012 - Johann Merrich, "7 Tone-Floats for a Self Destruction"  on http://www.electronicgirls.org/wp/
2014 - Johann Merrich "Feeling like a Dalek" in Electronicgirls Vol. 2

Un Tardo Pomeriggio In Osteria | MeVe Sound Installation

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