Attila Faravelli + Enrico Malatesta
Attila Faravelli is a musician and sound designer who explores sound as a material and relational phenomenon. His work examines the interplay between sound, space, and body. He has released music on multiple labels, participated in the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture, curates The Lift, and was a curator for Sounds of Europe. He is also the founder of Aural Tools, a series documenting the material and conceptual processes of various musicians.
Enrico Malatesta is a musician and independent researcher working at the intersection of music, performance, and site-specific exploration. His practice investigates the relationship between sound, space, and movement, focusing on material vitality, surfaces, and listening strategies, with an ecological approach to percussion. He has presented his work internationally at contemporary music and performing arts festivals and collaborates widely with other artists.
Attila Faravelli and Enrico Malatesta propose a workshop connected to their practices of sound-making and composition. Processuality, modes of listening, the relationship between space, body and texture, and the vitality of materials are among the keywords that shape a dialogue combining their different sonic experiments. During the workshop, listening exercises in the landscape are proposed and the Aura Tools are presented—a series of simple sound objects whose purpose is to document the work of certain musicians by investigating the specific material and conceptual processes through which sound is produced.
Among the tools presented:
Trifoglio, a device conceived by Attila Faravelli and designed to be listened to while held in the hands like a book. The object creates a sound field that is difficult to synthesise yet closely related to the acoustics of the place in which it is used.
30 meters stretch, created with Japanese sound artist Seiji Morimoto, represents the zero degree of the Aeolian harp and makes perceptible the movements of wind and air currents in spaces outside the protected enclosure of houses.
A small gig in front of the Little Fun Palace caravan concluded the workshop.
