Alessandro Perini plays Hanna Hartman - SOUND SPACES / INTONAL 2024

1) Färjesånger [Ferrysongs] (2002), 20'55
2) Die Schrauben, die die Welt zusammenhalten [Screws that hold the world together] (2001), 16'34

I chose to play two pieces by Hanna Hartman in connection to this year’s festival’s overarching focus on Luc Ferrari’s work, which similarly explores the boundaries between composition and sound art. Ferrari’s creations, unlike traditional compositions, lean towards the realm of radio art, blurring distinctions between genres.

Hartman, on the other hand, brings into her own music a rich theoretical and concrete background in theater and radio disciplines. Her approach to sound is strongly theatrical, with each sound in her compositions taking on a character-like quality. These sounds appear and reappear throughout her pieces, minimally processed, maintaining their original transparency; the intentional reduction of context, however, challenges listeners to engage in a focused auditory experience, at times closely embodying the utopia of reduced listening, where sound is listened for its features only, and not for its origin or meaning.

Alessandro Perini
Alessandro’s very broad artistic production ranges from instrumental and electronic music to audiovisual and light-based works, net-art, land-art, vibration-based works and custom-built machines. He has studied Composition (with Luca Francesconi and Ivan Fedele among others), Electronic Music and Science of Musical Communication in Italy and Sweden. In 2014 Alessandro started a research about vibration and tactile sound, called ‘touchmysound’, including projects at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse and residencies at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy) and Park In Progress (Belgium).

Visit Alessandro Perini’s artist page – alessandroperini.com

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