The work Guttatim (a latin expression for “drop by drop”) was recorded in the so called Grotta Gigante (Giant Cave) in Trieste, Italy, the world’s largest single chamber underground cave. Starting from the sound of waterdrops rythmically falling on a stalagmite the recording then was played back to capture the resonance of the drops echoing in the vast cave creating a very dark and deep sound composition.
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Guttatim

Guttatim – Grotta Gigante

Michele Spanghero
"Almost Solo"
sound installation and performance (2009)
double bass, speakers, nylon belts, stand, audio system
(dimensions variable, 30’ 33” loop)

«In Almost Solo the recordings of voices, sounds and noises made during a solo journey to Estonia in summer 2008 are played inside the contrabass that Spanghero brought and played during his journey. Two speakers are positioned against the body of the instrument, which vibrates. This is somehow a performance without a player and the instrument is the “acoustic diary” of the traveling artist.»
E. Pezzetta (from exhibition’s catalogue)

Project developed during an artist residency at MoKS, Mooste Estonia - summer 2008

Almost Solo

"Almost Solo" sound installation

excerpt from PETROLIO album "End of Vision" released by Gruenrekorder label in 2010.
Luca Robba_ drums, voice, laptop, samplings
Michele Spanghero_ double bass, live electronics, field recordings
Ugo Boscain_ contrabass clarinet, piano

PTEROLIO, "Vanity Faint" - excerpt

track n.2 from the composition unsound_zero (2006) by Michele Spanghero on doublebass and live electronics - reissued by miraloop records (2010)
features U. Boscain on clarinets

unzound: zero_2

track n.3 from the composition unsound_zero (2006) by Michele Spanghero on doublebass and live electronics - reissued by miraloop records (2010)
features U. Boscain on piano fender rhodes

unsound zero_3

excerpt from the live performance unsound_zero by Michele Spanghero (doublebass and live electronics) at Neon art gallery, Bologna 2009

unsound_zero live excerpt

rizhome electroacoustic duo
Fabrizio Fiore_live electronics
Michele Spanghero_doublebass

rizhome (excerpt 2)

rizhome (excerpt 1)

Inaudible vibrations and unusual sounds recorded during a two month artist residency in the Park and Miramare Castle (Trieste, Italy) were composed in a virtual sound walk, “Intus", presented as a multichannel sound installation in the throne room of the Castle.
"Intus" (Latin expression for "within") is a sonic journey that transports the listener in various sites of the Park and Castle of Miramare, revealing the intimate resonance of places, letting the audience listen to the sounds recorded “from within”. 
The sound composition "Intus" presents, in a narrative path, a selection of recorded sounds (without any intervention of sound processing), that sonically lead the audience to walk around the Park and dive into a fountain and then go further into the rough sea and end the walk in the throne room. 
All field recordings were recorded between October and December 2018 using cardioid, omnidirectional, contact microphones and hydrophones.

"Intus" timeline:
00:00 - 06:00
The sound walk starts from the Miramare Park with the rustle of the wind among the leaves of the trees, the cries of ducks and birds until getting to the beach with noisy breaking waves and then to a fountain located in the flower garden.
06:00 - 09:00
Begins an acoustic immersion in the water of the fountain to then listen to the underwater sounds of all the fountains in the Park.
09:00 - 12:00
The diving underwater continues by listening to the sound of the sea in the port of Miramare Castle. There are short high-pitched sounds of molluscs in the bay and the surf of the waves in the background.
12:00 - 16:30
In this section, the listening focuses on the action of the sea waves crashing on a metal railing making it resonate.
16:30 - 21:00
Re-emersion to listen to the metallic sound of a balustrade in the Park resonating when hit or vibrates due to the Bora wind.
21:00 - 25:00
The strong Bora wind waving the flag and the steel cables on the flagpole at the top of the tower of Miramare Castle.
25:00 - 30:00
The walk ends by entering the most emblematic room of the Miramare Castle: the throne room. The sound of the acoustic resonance of the empty room is heard, recorded at dawn, before the Museum is open to the public. The empty throne and the empty of the room at dawn resonate in the recording that ends the composition.

Intus

This is an excerpt of the sound installation "Topophonie (Nike)" (2011). 
A set of contact microphones were mounted on the 13 meters high statue of Winged Victory, the symbol of the city of Vittorio Veneto, to record the resonance of the vibrations in the bronze caused by the street traffic. The statue acoustically responds, resonating, to the city life. (In background it is also possible to hear few static noise from Police radio signal.)
  
This work is part of the sound mapping project "Topophonie" (2011)
commissioned by Comodamente festival.

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