Shestaya
AV Performance
Duration: an hour
Wednesday, 09 September 2015 | 22:00 > 22:00 2015-09-09T22:00:00.000Z | Piazza dellImmacolata
SHESTAYA is an experiment in live soundtracks and a research work on the cinematography of the great russian director DZIGA VERTOV (1896-1954).
Inspired by the unrestrainable Vertovʼs cine-eye and by his constant search for a film-truth, Shestaya sounds like a combination of beats, ambient, field recording and poetic voice of cello.
A contemporary suite to rediscover three masterpieces that stand at the very roots of modern documentary, looking beyond the contradictions of their propaganda purposes, on a timeless journey through people, works, faces, and alienated life in the Soviet twenties. A vivid dialogue between old images and new sounds.
chapter I : SHESTAYA CHAST MIRA (The sixth part of the World) 1926
chapter II : ENTUZIAZM – SYMFONIYA DONBASSA (SYMPHONY OF DONBASS) 1930
chapter III : KINOGLAZ (Cine-Eye) 1924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrheMO45Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKDO8ENSSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1VPnsPecls
Inspired by the unrestrainable Vertovʼs cine-eye and by his constant search for a film-truth, Shestaya sounds like a combination of beats, ambient, field recording and poetic voice of cello.
A contemporary suite to rediscover three masterpieces that stand at the very roots of modern documentary, looking beyond the contradictions of their propaganda purposes, on a timeless journey through people, works, faces, and alienated life in the Soviet twenties. A vivid dialogue between old images and new sounds.
chapter I : SHESTAYA CHAST MIRA (The sixth part of the World) 1926
chapter II : ENTUZIAZM – SYMFONIYA DONBASSA (SYMPHONY OF DONBASS) 1930
chapter III : KINOGLAZ (Cine-Eye) 1924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrheMO45Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKDO8ENSSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1VPnsPecls
Videos
Shestaya Chast Mira (1926 film by Dziga Vertov)
Author
Matteo Bennici is cellist, bass player and composer born in Florence and living in Milan, Italy. He played with Squarcicatrici, Tsigoti, Fine Before You Came, Dargen D'amico, Le Luci della Centrale and sound designer for cinema, theater and videoart