The Sound of the Italian Language
The Sound of the Italian Language is part of the series The Sound of the Language, 11 soundbooks
1. ITALIANO
The Sound of the Italian language
The work is part of the series The Sound of the Languages, which consists of 11 sound books, one for each different language
(English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, one African Language of the Burkina Faso, Portuguese, Spanish)
Dictionaries Room of the Library of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia
Permanent collection of the Fondazione Querini
photo Francesco Allegretto
The decline of Italy
singer: Andrea Gavagnin
7’12”
2016
List of Italian words fallen into disuse, to the point of being incomprehensible sung on the air of Lacrimosa from Verdi’s Requiem
The decline of Italy. Dead Words
singer: Andrea Gavagnin
duration: 3’12”
2016
List of Italian words fallen into disuse, to the point of being incomprehensible sung on the air of Lacrimosa from Verdi’s Requiem
1. IL DECLINO DELL'ITALIA. Parole Morte Mariateresa Sartori
The decline of Italy on the National Radio, Radio Rai tre, program Stanze d’artista curated by Guido Barbieri
2. RADIO-RAI-TRE-Sartori-.mp3
The Concert of the World. Sound Version
music: Stefano Codin
duration: 7’12”
2008
1. il concerto del mondo solo audio 2
The concert of the world is the concert of the world’s languages: the intrinsic musicality of every language is underlined by the translation in music of that particular conversation, that is characterized by a certain language, a certain timbre of voice, a certain rythmus. Relating to that every voice has its corresponding instrument.
The concert of the world was broadcast on the national radio rai tre in the program Stanze d’artista curated by Guido Barbieri 30 minutes about Mariateresa Sartori’s sound works, 17 August 2017
2. RADIO RAI TRE Sartori 3
Questions. Bald heads with their mother’s voice still in their ears.
Radio Version
soundwork, radio version, duration: 2’12”, 2016
Selection of questioning sentences pronounced by Ingrid Bergman dubbed by Lydia Simoneschi’s voice. The questions follow one another without interruption, crushed and compressed by a rhythm that does not allow pauses.
The subtitle “Bald heads with their mother’s voice still in their ears” is taken from the poem “The woman that had more babies than that” by Wallace Stevens
1. AAAADomande
(…) Are old men breathed on by a maternal voice,
Children and old men and philosophers,
Bald heads with their mother’s voice still in their ears.
The self is a cloister full of remembered sounds
And of sounds so far forgotten, like her voice,
That they return unrecognized. The self
Detects the sound of a voice that doubles its own,
In the images of desire, the forms that speak,
The ideas that come to it with a sense of speech.
The old men, the philosophers, are haunted by that
Maternal voice, the explanation at night.
They are more than parts of the universal machine.
Their need in solitude: that is the need,
The desire, for the fiery lullaby.
From: The woman that had more Babies than that by Wallace Stevens