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TONO

An acoustic/dynamic experiment





A project by KINKALERI
Audio composition performed live
MIKI SEMASCUS
Production: Kinkaleri
In collaboration with: Teatro Studio, Scandicci (I) and Monty Theatre, Antwerpen (B).
Subsidized by: The Italian ministry of culture; the Tuscany Region

Two dancers wearing stereophonic headphones into an amplified place carry out a choreographic structure strictly organized in unison .
A dj at his console defines the acoustic quality of the dynamic event, by processing: the amplified sound of the bodies, the sound of the room, the musical composition the dancers listen on their headphones, the silence.
There’s no music.
The structure makes use of classical elements clinging with masterly skill to a definite rhythmic articulation that is always a direct connection between an organized movement and its reproducibility.
Such a connection is put into crisis by a substantial variation in the level of the acoustic output; to alter the level of the acoustic perception means to operate a linguistic shift that completely changes the relationship to the deep-set perception each person has got with choreography.
The movement takes part in a dynamic play giving up the numerical and aesthetical relation with the time, thus relieving itself of the sense of the representation.
The choreography unfolds in all its mysterious technical harshness.
What remains to one’s eyes is the organic condition of the “dancing body” totally laid bare in its residual production of uncontrollable rejects, in its fallibility as a “subject”.
The composition literally pours out as an indissoluble unit and directly joining a deaf look that is drawn inside a new context of perception, almost as if the witnessing spectator was asked for a deeper and more private closeness, for a different relation between inside and outside.
Everything sinks in the surface of the evidence once again.


Miki Semascus





Since mid-nineties he plays as a dj in various frameworks and with different behaviours: dance parties, cinema and spoken-words sonorizations, dance and collective music live improvisations, audio-video studio editing.
In 1995 he is one of the founders of the Ogin:o Knauss group with whom he carries through events, installations, AV and theatrical performances, short films. Through the years he collaborates with Italian and foreign artists among which: Kinkaleri, Officine Cinematografiche, Burp Andergroond, Diapocollective, AUT, Discogirotto, Autechre, Gilberto Puma, Autobam, Omnidrive & H2O dj crew, Otolab.
Since 1999 he has also been experimenting radio transmission issues: “Beirut Fm” (Novaradio -101.5 FM Florence), is a one hour dj set digging into the suggestions of concrete sounds and out-takes, improvisation and audio craftsworks in music, shaping a kind of acoustic and electronic material mixed and layered to suit an ideal live soundtrack; “La boc..ca” radio-show dedicated to the traditional dancefloor on Saturdays.
He is also a weekly correspondent for Camera di Espansione - chOse dal ChaOs (Controradio 93.6 FM Florence).

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