ANTS RECORDS

FUORI is a creation by Giuseppe Chiari, the world renowned

Fluxus artist, dated 1965, that is usually performed (even if

performances are quite rare) in concert situations or

happenings. It is a verbal score: there is no music notation,

only instructions; there are no directions about time

duration. The performer has to describe the sounds he

listens in that very moment.

Francesco Michi and Mechi Cena conceived "Variazioni su

FUORI" as a new piece, a non-canonical version of Chiari’s

score, with several performers located in a non-concert

space and setting. In this occasion 8 performers recorded

simultaneously their version of FUORI: all in the same location

they described the same sound space, accordingly to the

criteria of the score.

After that, Michi and Cena arranged a multichannel

reproduction of these “tales of the listening”, trying to guess

what acoustic imagery they offer us and how this can help

our imagination to build a new, sustainable world of sound.

The "Variazioni su FUORI" created by Michi and Cena are a

sort of further investigation which, starting from a particular

idea of listening, updates and develops it, finally going to

invest different and multiple artistic fields. Not only the

sound, but also the language, the performance, the listening

and the understanding of the "sound landscape". A

multifaceted development which ideally unites Chiari with

Raymond Murray Schafer and which, today more than ever, is

extremely topical and interesting.

The enclosed audio CD contains the “final” binaural stereo

version, where the individual tracks have been assembled and

mixed, reconstructing, as far as possible, the position in

space of the performers in the first performance. You are

recommended to listen to the CD in headphones, possibly in

darkness or closing your eyes.

The data DVD instead contains the 8 “single parts” (in WAV

files), each of them mixed with a background recording of the

sound environment of the garden. In addition, in the DVD you

will find an iconographic documentation of the original

performance: a video made and edited by Elsa Mersi and

photographs by Sergio Garbari. Plus PDFs of all the texts (by

the authors and the performers) in Italian and English.

All completed by 6 folding panels (score of the piece -with

the autographed signatures of the artists- texts, photos, map

of the place of the performance).

Every box is numbered.

(Please note: due to the limited edition the audio and video

supports are CD-R and DVD-R, singularly printed and checked)

Tracklist (CD):

1) Variazioni su FUORI 63:50

released 16/02/2020