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Agnese Banti

February 20 2024, 6.30pm

Running time 45’

Agnese Banti, sound artist and cutting-edge experimental musician, proposes an inventive composition in which loudspeakers, around which the performance revolves, stop being tools for sound diffusion and become forms of presence with which to engage. Organized in a choreography of ever-changing sounds, the loudspeakers are stage partners for Banti, whose performance interrogates her own voice as something other than her own self: she plays with it and relates to it, she constructs and deconstructs the space through a process that is ritualistic and playful in how it spreads sound across a blank canvas.

Agnese Banti is a sound artist, musician, and overtone singer based in Bologna. For several years, she has collaborated with various personalities and entities in the field of sound and performative experimentation. Her artistic activity revolves around composition for space, choral voice, studies on soundscapes, research on the relationship between gesture and sound, traditional music repertoires, and the collaborative dimension of the creative process.

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Credits

with: Agnese Banti
live electronics: Andrea Trona
artistic project, musical composition, and direction: Agnese Banti
artistic and technical collaboration, musical informatics: Andrea Trona
dramaturgy and direction collaboration: Marta Vitalini
sound direction: Agnese Banti, Andrea Trona
technical consultation and lights: Antonio Rinaldi
technical collaboration: Donato Debellis
organization: Alice Diodovich
artistic encounters curated by: FONDO Yan Duyvendak, Camille Louis, Ana Pi
residencies: Teatro Il Lavatoio, Santarcangelo Festival, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora, Centro di residenza Emilia Romagna, Sala Lab, PARC – Fabbrica Europa, Sala Verdi – I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Villa Strozzi – Tempo Reale, Vulkano/Malagola – Ravenna Teatro
project supported by: FONDO – Network for emerging creativity developed by Santarcangelo dei Teatri with AMAT, Centrale Fies, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Fabbrica Europa, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | Centro di residenza Emilia Romagna, Operaestate Festival Veneto – CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Ravenna Teatro, Teatro Pubblico Campano, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, TSU Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Triennale Milano Teatro