Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Sounds Like Venice - Sound Art Project RAM LIVE

From 1th to 6th of July, RAM LIVE will stream 24hours non stop on http://live.radioartemobile.it/ Sounds like Venice - a sound art project and multimedia blog which gathers the testimonies, sounds and voices of world culture from the heart of Venice in the frame of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, entitled Fare Mondi//Making Worlds//Bantin Duniyan // Weltenmachen//Construire des Mondes //Fazer Mundos - directed by Daniel Birnbaum.

The project was created and promoted by Ilari Valbonesi,director RAM LIVE - in co-production with Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman, radioCona (Temporary Web Art Radio Project) - and the personal vocation of a site, Spazio Thetis, for the relationship between contemporary art and technological research dedicated to environmental themes, eco-compatibility and innovation in artistic forms and electronic communication.

Sounds like Venice is curated by Ilari Valbonesi, Alessio Fransoni, Steve Piccolo, Irena Pivka, Luca Vitiello, Brane Zorman.

Recorded Sounds, Interviews and Field Recording produced by RAM LIVE and radioCona.
Sounds Like Venice 24h Radio Flux: edited and remixed by Ilari Valbonesi and Luca Vitiello.

Sounds like Venice Playlist : Blade Runner Soundtrack by Vangelis (1994), Il Casanova di Fellini Soundtrack by Nino Rota (1976), Kyrgyz folk music - Melody of Nomad (2008), Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, The Doors, Gene Kelly, Grace Jones, Stormy Weather, Syd Barret, Can, Elvis Presley, The Syn.

The entire project will be available also on the Blog: http://soundslikevenice.wordpress.com/

We would like to thank Spazio Thetis and all the artists and people who have been involved with this project
Ilari Valbonesi (Roma July 1st 2009)