Sound Chronicles and Sound Chapters

Sound Chronicles
A cura di Matteo Binci
Quodlibet
illustrazioni a colori e bn + disco in vinile
Italiano/Inglese
2025

MPDS (Mario Pieroni and Dora Stiefelmeier) Audio Archive is an ever-expanding sound archive, consisting of over 2,600 audio files created by more than 200 artists, spanning from the 1960s to the present day. The collection includes rare sound works, interviews, field recordings, radio broadcasts, and audio documentation of happenings, concerts, and exhibitions.
 

Sound Chapters: Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy
AA. VV
Edited by NUB (Francesca Lenzi / Federico Fiori) e Gabriele Tosi
Italian and English
224 pages
Viaindustriae

Sound Chapters: Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy is a hybrid volume dedicated to the Italian auditory arts scene. Using textuality as an intimate form of sound, the book reflects the texture of the voice in writing. Words function like ventril-oquy, imitating remote vocalities. In the chapters, short stories, essays, research papers, poems, scores and songs sound without hierarchy, emphasising plurality. By weaving together contri-butions that elude conventional modes of writing, the project amplifies a fluid and inclusive bibliography on the subject.
The book is not only a theoretical reflection on the Italian soul scene but also a catalogue for Mezz'aria. La strana apertura della ricerca sonora, a collective project that explored sound research within the exhibition setting of the Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo di Palazzo Fabroni a Pistoia (20.05-15.08 2023). Artists and researchers: Marco Baldini, Elena Biserna, Luca Boffi, Andrea Borghi, Mattia Capelletti, Francesco Cavaliere, Stefano De Ponti, Nicola Di Croce, Giulia Deval, Alessandra Eramo, Paolo Gabriotti, Giulia Gonfiantini, Renato Grieco, Riccardo La Foresta, Enrico Malatesta, Chiara Pavolucci, Leandro Pisano, Diana Lola Posani, Radio Papesse, Francesco Toninelli.