1908 Messina Earthquake

921 Taiwan Earthquake

Today, technology mediates practically every relationship humans have with the world, not only in terms of the production of commodities, but also in the sphere of interpersonal communication. In order to be processed by digital machines, reality must be translated into measurable units– algorithms–and transformed into a technical-scientific language. But, can existence truly be drained and reduced to a perfect system of representability and controlled in its entirety? Can reality be set into a mathematical language that provides, directs and contains every possible manifestation, thus eliminating error?

Man is an Animal of Language is the beginning of a research that embrace these reflections. Various algebraic forms and surfaces describing different states of complexity, are approached as the symbolical reference to a technical-scientific translation of the world. The chosen forms are Euclidean -triangle, cylinder- and non-Euclidean surfaces, as the Klein Bottle, which in mathematics has been related to the shape of the Universe, or a Breather Surface, which describes a solitonic structures. Soliton are self-reinforcing solitary wave packet, used also in fiber optics applications.

The surfaces are integrally reproduced in clay and partially burst by small amounts of explosive. On one side, the bursting process addresses a method of today’s conflicts –wars, terror attacks– and on the other, the explosion represents the existence of chaos as an irrepressible element of reality.
Once transfigured the algebraic surfaces  are reproduced in aluminum and concrete, and laid out to create a landscape. 
The landscape is then immersed in the sounds of multiple overlapping voices, which include reflections of scholars, poets, and philosopher recorded during SAAS FEE Summer Institute of Art, mixed with chronicles of recent socio-political events. This crowd of voices, edited as concrete poetry, explores and challenge the boundaries of communication through spoken language.

MAN IS AN ANIMAL OF LANGUAGE (why don't you go traveling to the desert?)

Clarinet B 1: Temperatures; Clarinet B 1: Humidity;
Clarinet MI B: Rain; Bass Clarinet: Wind

Le Quattro Stagioni refers to the famous composition by Antonio Vivaldi, but is given by the translation in music of four weather variables collected during 2015 in Alessandria, Italy. To each weather graph has been superimposed the tonal scale of its assigned instrument. Each note is one day.

Le Quattro Stagioni (Alessandria_Piemonte)

The Intelligence of Machines

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The Intelligence of the Machines is an installation where undersea cables for internet transmission, reproduced in ceramic, have become resonance elements. The cables spread the sonification of the financial collapse happened during May 6th 2010 (became known as “ flash crash”). During the event the Dow Jones index drop about a thousand points in over 36 minutes and Wall Street lost $800 billions of value in a half hour. 
Contrary to what was declared, the cause does not seem to be an error of artificial intelligence, but might have been a case of deliberate manipulations of the market by high-frequency traders (HFT), produced by an enormous number of erroneous quotes entering the stock exchange system.   
The music is based on three violin pieces and an electronic one. The violin partitions are given by the sonification, between 14.00 and 15.00 hour, of the collapse of the American Electric Power (AEP) stock price in three different exchanges, the PACF, the NYSE and the NSDQ. The electronic piece is inspired by sounds of video games, digital interferences and its volume is set on the volume of transactions happened during the same hour.
A performer has interpreted the music during the opening night, throughout a choreography inspired by the virtual characters of some of the most influential video games.

The project​ ​sees​ ​the collaboration of​ ​the musicians Francesco Dani and Sebastiano Aleo, of the violinist Stefano Antonello, of the performer Elisa di Paola.

The Intelligence of Machines

Blind Sun is a sound piece of about 30 minutes made in collaboration with the Italian musician Roberto Francesco Dani and with the Portuguese singer Beatriz Ventura. The "vocal spectrums" based on the energy released from the molecules of the elements that compose the Sun, collide and fuse. Such vocal magma lay on an array of electronic sounds. They come by the data collected from the last twenty years data of Solar Irradiance and World Energy Consumption.

Nuclear fusion is, as George Bataille writes in the Accursed Share: "the source of life exuberant development. The origin and essence of our wealth come in the radiation of the Sun." In his book, the philosopher points out: "the need to study the system of human production and consumption within a much larger framework," acknowledging the "industrial network" as part of "a circuit of cosmic energy on which it depends, which it cannot limit, and whose laws it cannot ignore without consequences".

Blind Sun Strinna

I am a visual artist which is interested in sound.

Elisa Strinna