Attila Faravelli
Musician and sound designer. In his practice he explores the relationship between sound, space and body. His music is published by several labels he participates at the Venice Biennial Architecture (2010), curates The Lift, a series of experimental music concerts and he has curated the Sounds of Europe project. He is founder and curator for the Aural Tools project, a series of simple objects to document the material and conceptual processes of specific musicians’ sound production practices.
The workshop proposed by Attila Faravelli centres on the Aura Tools, a series of simple sound objects whose purpose is to document the work of certain musicians not through the publication of records (CDs, cassette tapes or vinyl), but by investigating the specific modes and processes through which sound is produced.
Each tool seeks to activate a specific relationship between sound, space and body. At the core of the project lies the conviction that sound is not so much an object of static contemplation as a mobile and immersive event within a complex field of material and energetic flows. The Aura Tools are easy-to-use instruments, designed so that the listener is both active and passive at once, listening to themselves in the act of producing sound within a specific context.
Among the tools presented and made available:
Trifoglio, a device conceived by Attila Faravelli, is designed to be listened to while holding it in the hands like a book, creating a sound field that is difficult to synthesise yet closely related to the acoustics of the place in which it is used.
Freie Aerophone, developed in collaboration with double bassist Matija Schellander, is inspired by the bullroarer—an ancient instrument that functions in a surprisingly analogous way to the playing techniques used by the Austrian musician on the double bass.
Pietra di Langa, created in collaboration with percussionist Enrico Malatesta, explores the vibrational tendencies of natural solid bodies and suggests a form of interaction that is both active and passive with their oscillatory movements.
