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9:30 pm live concert @Standards curated by Standards and ALMARE

6 pm talk @NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti)

November 7th, Standards’ space will host Production, a performance by NY-based composer and sound artist Marina Rosenfeld. The evening will be the result of a collaboration between Standards and ALMARE, an association hinged on contemporary practices that use sound as an art medium, founded in Turin in 2017.

Production stems from Deathstar, a recent project premised on an obsolete recording technique known as ‘perceptual soundfield reconstruction’, focused on the interplay of recording, composition, and improvisation. Originally exhibited as an installation at Portikus (Frankfurt, 2017) Rosenfeld harnessed the unruly acoustics of the German insitution tower-like space, and its tendency to amplify events, to produce a recursive and distorting recording architecture, a kind of machinic site for continuous musical production and dispersal. The work was presented also as a series of ensuing ‘orchestrations,’ for piano and other instruments.

In Milan for the first time, togheter with Standards and ALMARE, Rosenfeld has produced a new suite of dub plates, or temporary records, reimagining the tones and acoustic singularities of the performance site. In keeping with her history of creating temporary and spontaneous ‘orchestras’ – improvising ensembles foregrounding the social relations of participants with each other and their surroundings – in Milan she also plans to include some collaborators – visual arts students from NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in her concert. Using the new dubplates as material, the group will investigate together the potential to reproduce by hand an improvised account of the architecture of their surroundings.