about

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist based in Livorno (Tuscany). His compositions have been published by Radical Matters Ed/Label (IT), Aurora Borealis (UK), Actual Noise/20buckspin (US), Afe Records (IT), Boring Machines (IT). He is working in Italy with the Enrico Fornello Contemporary Art Gallery. Riparbelli’s performances and installations have been presented at D’Amelio Terras contemporary art gallery (NY), Equinox Festival (London), Nuit Blanche (Paris), Magazzino d’arte moderna (Rome), Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena), Flora (Florence), Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona), Base progetti per l’arte (Florence). He works with performances, sound installations and recorded works and in the last three years has been collaborating through selected projects with Massimo Bartolini, Nico Vascellari, Philippe Petit, Fabrizio Modenese Palumbo, Influx, Francisco Lopez, L’Acephale, Christina Kubisch, Seth Cluett, Burial Hex, Yannick Franck and others. He is a curator/executive producer of the independent music label Radical Matters - Editions Label with the new series “Metasound” to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art.

Artist Statement

My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. I usually compose works in relation to the environment or to experimental practices of collaborating with other artists (for instance “Chthonian Music” has been composed with sound sources by Francisco Lopez, Christina Kubisch, Massimo Bartolini, Seth Cluett, Y.E.R.M.O., Francesco Brasini, Luciano Maggiore, Gianluca Becuzzi, Andrea Marutti, Philippe Petit, Deadwood, Burial Hex, Aderlating, Utarm, Nordvargr, L'Acephale) About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. This is the case of works like “ Metaphonic Portrait – 1230 A.D.” that has been composed with sound sources from the Assisi Basilica in Italy or “Voices from Thelema” that has been recorded within Thelema Abbey in Cefalù utilizing short wave radio receivers. In some of my works I also play organ voice, drum and other instruments, but I never use digital sound sources. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception.

PT-R and K 11 are two parallel projects.   PT-R is a project dealing with the way to create sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings). In this project I use only sounds coming from the environment.   K 11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places.

Curriculum

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