OGR You resumes its program – on Tuesday, September 17, 6.30pm, Sala Duomo - with a lecture / performance by Turinese sound artist Luca Garino, who proposes an unprecedented listening experience.

Over the twenty years of his research, Garino has focused his attention on the natural soundscape and the languages ​​of the different living species that inhabit it, whose traces he archives by means of field recording. During the conference, he shares with the public some acoustic fragments taken both from the archives of ethnomusicologists, composers and artists, and from his own collection, and later invites the audience to give heed to sounds on the verge of audibility.

The artist introduces the evening with these words:

"Title:
- How do we do it?
- We'll stay here, like this.

The increasingly pressing human difficulty of developing communication with other species, as well as of establishing a relationship with the environment devoid of supremacy or exploitation, seems the result of a rupture. Such an estrangement arises from the sensory limits of human beings, as well as from a degeneration caused by the ways and lifestyles of the capitalist system in which we currently live.
How to react? One of the possibilities is to trigger new desires and tensions, to re-discover the need to listen, to develop skills naturally inherent in communication, and to imagine new environments for it. The multiple relationships that occur between different species can still be

perceived through instinct, or by implementig techniques of orientation such as echolocation (the use of sound waves and echoes to determine where objects are in space).
The ecological tension to reclaim our impoverished sensory apparatus (by re-sensitizing it as much as possible), requires experimentation. Isolation and sensory deprivation can serve as a practice through which we can try and approach abandonment and dissolution of the self, in favor of a collective (listening) experience drawing us closer to the “other”, understood as what supports us, surrounds us and lives next to us – the rest of ourselves. "

After a long path of self-learning as an autodidact, Luca Garino (Turin, 1978) perfected his research at the LaSDIM (Laboratory for experimentation and teaching of musical informatics), under Alvise Vidolin. Active since 1996 in the field of acousmatic, electronic, concrete and computer music, Garino developed a parallel burning passion for ethnomusicological research. From 2015 he collaborates with the record label Holidays Records, for which he edited a series of publications on sound poetry (with contributions, among others, by Arrigo Lora-Totino and Ghérasim Luca) and on various contemporary artists and composers, dedicating ample space to the sound works by Danish fluxus artist Henning Christiansen.

All OGR YOU events, curated by Barbara Casavecchia in collaboration with Sergey Kantsedal, are free and open to the public upon reservation.