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AV Performance
Duration: 40 min.
vendredi, 19 septembre 2025 | 22:15 > 22:552025-09-19T22:15:00.000Z | Garden
[Text available only in English] The project is a live audiovisual performance that focuses on exploring the relationship between the natural and the artificial world.
The central part of the project is Sir David Attenborough's speech: A message to world leaders. Recorded and broadcasted for the WWF's Leaders for Nature and People event at the UN Climate Action Summit (part of the 74th UN General Assembly), the speech by the renowned naturalist, who has been involved in the production of nature documentaries for decades, talks about how his work has led him to increasingly notice the changes caused by pollution and human exploitation of the ecosystem.
The speech is addressed directly to the world leaders present at the Assembly, urging them to take note of what is happening to our planet as a result of their economic and political choices, which are “unconsciously based on the belief that nature will continue to be a benign and regular supplier of the conditions we need to grow”.
Sir Attenborough directly asks them to send an important signal to solve the problem, given their privileged position in being able to make a difference.
The choice of this specific speech is due both to the notoriety of the character, famous for his voice-overs on British documentaries, and to the inspiration he conveys, but above all because environmental protection is a subject very dear to me and I believe that music is one of the most effective means of conveying an important message that can reach and engage the community.
Starting from these assumptions, I tried to convey Sir Attenborough's words in an abstract video: particle clouds that initially move randomly and independently and then fit into structures reminiscent of a double DNA helix or the development of a tree trunk, until the visual surface is completely filled with particle waves in continuous motion.
Colour changes shift from bright colours to greys, symbolising the destruction of natural environments, until they undergo continuous changes in a chaotic alternation.
The music is a mixture of electronic and acoustic instruments processed with delay, reverb, shimmer and resonators to make them unrecognisable. Guitar, synth, tibetan bells, vocals, piano, relentless drum patterns and solitary pulses.
Everything is modified live using preconfigured parameters with freedom of execution, with the result that the performance is never the same.
The central part of the project is Sir David Attenborough's speech: A message to world leaders. Recorded and broadcasted for the WWF's Leaders for Nature and People event at the UN Climate Action Summit (part of the 74th UN General Assembly), the speech by the renowned naturalist, who has been involved in the production of nature documentaries for decades, talks about how his work has led him to increasingly notice the changes caused by pollution and human exploitation of the ecosystem.
The speech is addressed directly to the world leaders present at the Assembly, urging them to take note of what is happening to our planet as a result of their economic and political choices, which are “unconsciously based on the belief that nature will continue to be a benign and regular supplier of the conditions we need to grow”.
Sir Attenborough directly asks them to send an important signal to solve the problem, given their privileged position in being able to make a difference.
The choice of this specific speech is due both to the notoriety of the character, famous for his voice-overs on British documentaries, and to the inspiration he conveys, but above all because environmental protection is a subject very dear to me and I believe that music is one of the most effective means of conveying an important message that can reach and engage the community.
Starting from these assumptions, I tried to convey Sir Attenborough's words in an abstract video: particle clouds that initially move randomly and independently and then fit into structures reminiscent of a double DNA helix or the development of a tree trunk, until the visual surface is completely filled with particle waves in continuous motion.
Colour changes shift from bright colours to greys, symbolising the destruction of natural environments, until they undergo continuous changes in a chaotic alternation.
The music is a mixture of electronic and acoustic instruments processed with delay, reverb, shimmer and resonators to make them unrecognisable. Guitar, synth, tibetan bells, vocals, piano, relentless drum patterns and solitary pulses.
Everything is modified live using preconfigured parameters with freedom of execution, with the result that the performance is never the same.
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[Text available only in English] Andrea Puglierin, aka //coolestkidonpluto//, started out as a singer and guitarist in underground alternative rock bands.
Currently involved in the emo/post-hardcore band ‘'Meant,’' with whom he released a self-titled EP, in another project focused on electronics together with dark ambient artist Filippo Nervo, aka Reliquia, and with his solo project.
At 28, he quit work to pursue his musical passion and return to study. He is admitted to the Conservatory of Rovigo, in the Department of...