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- country:Italy
- style(s):Experimental, Folk
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Small Ensemble, Trio
- gender:male
- instrumentation:electronic, percussion, visual, string, woodwind, brass
- artist posted by:Duo Bottasso
Line up
- Nicolò Bottasso (Violin, trumpet, live electronics)
- Simone Bottasso (Diatonic accordion, flute, live electronics)
- Simone Sims Longo (live visual, live electronics)
Il Cielo di Pietra (“The Stone Sky”) is a musical, visual and sonic show created with footage from cinematographic experimentation.
At the beginning of XX century directors such as Segundo de Chomon, Georges Mèliés, JC Mol were experimenting on color, special effects and in the investigation of the microscopical details.
The Bottasso brothers and Simone Sims Longo composed the music for the show enhancing the visionary approach of these directors, processing the films with modern digital means and playing with the degradation that time operated over the film material.This performance is not a live soundtrack of a movie, but the visuals become the fourth element that performs on stage. A contemporary tribute to the first cinema projections, where the music was played live, where a voiceover might burst in, the film could “skip” or catch fire and the material of the nitrate film itself takes over the foreground.
The video samples come from the Eye Film Institute archive of Amsterdam.