To refer in any way to Luciano Berio’s music is in itself a complex undertaking, if not for how his artistic experience has incorporated references and practices that are open to the plurality of music, and as such are permeable to a possible constant process of recontextualization. This is how fragments from some of his fundamental works (such as Naturale featuring the voice of Sicilian singer-storyteller Celano), as well as sound objects from his limitless documentary excursions, emerge and join together in a surprising and evocative layout, enriched by the same spatial dimension that Berio loved so much as a composer and used ever since the earliest manifestations of his repertoire.
This installation is therefore a true homage offered by Tempo Reale, a score for sounds and voices, a small and partial journey within one of the most influential minds of the 20th century, with the aim to provide awareness and further discovery of the great master’s work.
Tempo Reale
IN-NATURALE
Sound installation for Luciano Berio
Sound project: Simone Faraci and Francesco Giomi
Technical realisation: Francesco Canavese (coord.), Giovanni Magaglio, Francesco Vogli
Photo: Luciano Berio, ca. 1975; unknown photographer, g.c. CSLB
Dates:
– Dialoghi: Festival Luciano Berio – Radicondoli 2023 , Palazzo Bizzarrini, Spazio mostre, 26 May – 25 June 2023 (Tempo Reale participated in the Festival inauguration with Franz Ascari and Simone Faraci acting as electroacoustic narrators. [see Brochure]
– Nel Limite, DOM – La Cupola del Pilastro, Bologna, 9 May 2025
– Secret Florence, Semiottagono_ MIP – Murate Idea Park, Florence, 27-28 June 2025
– Romaeuropa Festival, 3-5 October 2025
The installation uses fragments from the following works by Luciano Berio:
a-ronne, per 5 attori (1974)
Cries of London, per 8 voci (1974-76)
E si fussi pisci, per coro misto a cappella (2002)
Folk Songs, per mezzosoprano e 7 strumenti (1964)
Il ritorno degli Snovidenia, per violoncello e 30 strumenti (1977)
Laborintus II, per voci, strumenti e nastro magnetico (1965)
Linea, per 2 pianoforti, vibrafono e marimba (1973)
Momenti, per nastro magnetico (1960)
Questo vuol dire che…, per 3 voci femminili, speaker, coro e nastro magnetico (1968)
Sequenza V, per trombone (1966)
Sequenza VII, per oboe (1969)
Sequenza X, per tromba (1984)
And also: vocal fragments of different origins and nature from reels in Luciano Berio’s sound archive (PSS)
All sound materials used in the In-Naturale installation come from Luciano Berio’s sound archive held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and have been made available courtesy of all rights holders.
