Cosmic Expression

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2008
Band Members: DALLA COLLABORAZIONE DI RHA COLIN ARNAUD E DARIO MARINO NASCE IL PROGETTO COSMIC EXPRESSION: L’IDEA È ESPRIMERE ATTRAVERSO SUONI E IMMAGINI LA COMPLESSITÀ DEL COSMO IN TUTTE LE SUE SFACCETTATURE. ESALTANDO IL RAPPORTO CHE INTERCORRE TRA NOI E IL FIRMAMENTO. LA MUSICA IPNOTICA DI RHA E LA VIOLA DI COLIN ARNAUD FANNO DA TAPPETO AI MONTAGGI VIDEO LIVE DI DARIOMARINO IN UN ESCALATION DI PSICHEDELIA E REALISMO COSMICO NELL’IMMENSITÀ DELL’INCONOSCIBILE. UN TENTATIVO DI ABBRACCIARE IL MISTERO DEL COSMO TRAMITE UN’ESPERIENZA MULTI SENSORIALE. AL PROGETTO SI UNISCE LA RECITAZIONE PERFORMATIVA DI YZU CON TESTI TRATTI DAL SUO ULTIMO LAVORO 'CANZONI – PER UNA STANZA ABBANDONATA'

TO THE PYTHAGOREANS, THE COSMOS WAS SOMETHING THAT DID NOT BELONG TO OUR WORLD, NOR TO OUR REALITY; IT WAS, INSTEAD, SOMETHING APART, SOMETHING BEYOND THEM. THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE COSMOS HAD A DIVINE NATURE AND THAT ITS PERFECTION COULD BE EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF NUMBERS. ON EARTH, MUSIC WAS CONSIDERED THE CLOSEST THING TO THE PERFECT HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE. THE GREEKS, HOWEVER, LOOKED AT THE STARS WITH A NAKED EYE AND DID NOT HAVE THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE COSMIC SYSTEM. TODAY, MODERN SPACE TELESCOPES, SATELLITES AND INFRA-RED RAYS ENABLE US TO SEE A TINY PART OF WHAT SURROUNDS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM; ASTRONOMERS AND PHYSICISTS BUILD MODELS AND THEORIES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THIS VAST SPACE. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND US IS THAT, THANKS TO NEWTON, WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE LAWS WHICH ARE APPLICABLE ON EARTH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE BEYOND THE TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERE. OUR PROJECT – COSMIC EXPRESSION – WAS BORN BY MERGING THE IMAGE OF THE COSMOS GIVEN BY THE SATELLITES WITH THE MODERN VIDEO TECHNIQUES AND DIGITAL MUSIC. WITH THE TERM ‘COSMIC EXPRESSIONS’ WE WANT TO REFER TO OUR INCLINATION TO FAVOUR THE MOST EMOTIONAL SIDE OF THE ASTRONOMICAL STUDIES, BY STRETCHING IT TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT. IN SHORT, WE WANT TO BRING THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF THE COSMOS BACK TO THE FASCINATION OF ART. THE IDEA IS TO EXPRESS, THROUGH SOUNDS AND IMAGES, THE COMPLEXITY OF COSMOS IN ALL ITS MANY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ASPECTS. THUS, WE CAN SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FIRMAMENT AND OURSELVES. RHA’S HYPNOTIC MUSIC, COLIN ARNAUD'S VIOLA IS THE BASIS TO DARIO MARINO’S LIVE VIDEO EDITING, IN AN ESCALATION OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCES AND COSMIC REALISM IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNKNOWABLE. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO EMBRACE THE MYSTERY OF COSMOS THROUGH A MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCE.
translation by Marzia Bucca
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Live Paratissima Torino 2008
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