Sound installations and soundscapes for exhibitions, galleries and museums
In the early 1980s, in Bologna, I worked alongside visual artists, painters and sculptors, setting up their exhibitions in art galleries and often sounding their creative spaces in their studios with my synthesizers. It was a fundamental experience: over time it led me to see my sounds and soundscapes as a form of painting and sculpture, sound as a material to be shaped, sounds as brushstrokes of colour.
I have often experienced how a well-crafted sound design can make a visit to an art exhibition more engaging and enjoyable: the visitor is placed in a sound field that guides their vision. There is a difference between an unsounded art space, one sounded with a sonic carpet composed for the space and the works on show, and one sounded badly. Sound diffusion is a specialist discipline, with its own rules for harmonising an environment and making a space euphonic.
This proposal may interest artists who have their own showroom. A sound environment enhances the space and the works, creating a relationship through the diffusion of sounds that are always discreet and never intrusive: a carpet to walk on. Sound closes the circle.
It may interest painters, sculptors and artists of any other form, and anyone who wants a sonic space in which to immerse themselves and create their work: a composed soundscape, a personalised, musically curated environment, nourishing the euphonic entity of art.