
7 speakers as scissors pointed towards the sky
Site-specific performance
in both floors of the room piece Ave Ovo by artist Francesco Clemente
realized for the opening of
Cutting Clouds | Tagliando le nuvole
curated by Marta Ferrara and Marta Wróblewska
26 09 2024 – Museo Madre – Napoli
The work investigated the relational potential of sound in dialogue with the museum space, its permanent collection and the audience.
Seven loudspeakers have been arranged in a scissor-like form involving the two floors of Francesco Clemente’s Ave Ovo hall, generating a fragmented vertical sound flow and exploiting its distinctive acoustic qualities.
It shaped an immersive sonic environment in which sound traversed the space as both a gesture and a cut, evoking silence not as an actual absence but as an elusive concept made perceptible only when disrupted. By the use of manipulated recordings of silence and sonic events considered as its ruptures, the composition turned into a live piece characterized by a pulsating rhythm.
To complete the immersive experience and emphasizing the site-specific action, the sound system’s design recalls the shape of the architectural hole by Clemente.
Each speaker, individually controlled, contributed to model an evolving soundscape that exposed the audience to a continuous sensation of silence being shattered while allowing them to drift and be permeated by sonic waves
Renato Fiorito
Concept / Electronics / Sound Design

Photos by Maura Cioffi