Renato Grieco
Un Ordine delle Cose

A musical performance on the occasion of Performing Celebration,
a weekend of activities dedicated to celebrating the final opening days of
Retinal Rivalry by Cyprien Gaillard and Cold As You Are by Rebecca Moccia

Sunday 2 February 2025 | 7-7.45 PM

Duomo | OGR Torino

Free admission until capacity is reached

It is read aloud for the listener to take his or her eyes elsewhere. To let a voice throw us off the idea we had of the characters' morphology. Or for the opposite reason: for words to insinuate their timbre into a friendly voice. A reading aloud to cohabit. Publish. It takes a lot of trick words and maze-like sentences to throw language off track and find the real.

Un Ordine delle Cose is a set to music reading of excerpts from L’ordine delle cose, the atlas of nature that tells the reader what the world of living things is like without it, published in 1958 by Jacque Brosse, psychoanalyst, botanical and religious expert.

Renato Grieco composed the musical interludes in February 2024, while reading and re-reading this gem. Science and truth merge in the imagination and ingenuity of a close look at microscopic details.

RENATO GRIECO
Renato Grieco is a Neapolitan composer, musician and performer, active in the fields of musique concrète, sound art and radio art. He works around the themes of listening, recording, archiving, narration, voice and speech. He interrogates space through the creation, recording, organization and dissemination of sound and music. After starting, extremely young, his career as a double bass player, he ventured into composing music for fixed media, under the pseudonym kNN. Making active research his manifesto, for the past 13 years he has been experimenting with the arrangement of one or more sound sources in space; imagining and designing objects or spaces for listening, both physical and virtual; speaking within certain objects; listening through other objects. Believes in absolute waste and carnival. He considers listening as a cognitive activity in itself, affecting the intellect and body with its semantics,