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HA Radiowork by Roberto Paci Dalò

Composed, performed, produced by Roberto Paci Dalò
 Voice Hannah Arendt 
Singing voices Luisa Cottifogli, Caterina Pilati Created at Giardini Pensili (Rimini) Mixed by Roberto Paci Dalò, Alessandro Renzi
 Mixing supervisor Andrea Felli (Farmhouse, Rimini)
 Text researches Margherita Wolenski Produced by Elisabeth Zimmermann Production ORF Kunstradio In collaboration with Giardini Pensili

First broadcasting 27 December 2020, Ö1 Kunstradio - Radiokunst 
For Lia Dalò

HA is a sound forest created from the real voice of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) intertwined with instrumental and electronic sounds. A sensorial journey in her phonetics where words are transformed into cartographical sonic materials. A cinematic and experimental approach where, however, even complex materials are organized in a radio composition accessible to all audiences. A long and laborious work of composition and editing has transformed Arendt's voice into a grid, a map, an acoustic immersive architecture made up of many micro cells of a few seconds each. Every one with its own parameters (volume, reverb, spatialisation, etc.) in order to create an always moving dynamic multi layers radio composition.  

The reference book of the whole project is her most seminal work The Human Condition (1958) and its three human activities (labor, work, action) create sections of the radiowork. Together with Arendt’s own texts, those of the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero and Elias Canetti were utterly important for the project.

"The voice as an element that frees language from the constraint of the symbolic order" (Canetti)

 “Canetti himself claims to be a listener rather than an observer. This predilection for sound matter, far from presenting itself as a curious trait, is claimed by him as a cognitive specialty, particularly prolific and original.(...) A specific term would have to be found to designate this sonority of plural voices that utter different words simultaneously, yet do not produce a cacophony. And, of course, this term should be so flexible that it could also include the harmonic sound of a plurality that recites or sings in unison, yet it is not a harmony. Many elements suggest calling it pluriphony. " (Adriana Cavarero)

The soundscapes in the piece were recorded by the artist on the 27th January 2018 at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
 Roberto Paci Dalò considers HA to be a seminal work for him: here he reflects on his career as radio-maker by putting back into play early actions and methodologies together with his peculiar today’s practice combining avant-garde, popular culture and technology. Roberto grew up alongside friends like Robert Adrian and Heidi Grundmann who helped him to forge his own radio methodology – and true passion – that has been able to develop in over thirty years of international radio projects among the most adventurous and dedicated to of the continuous encounter between languages and territories for a real media dramaturgy (a term he coined in the mid-Nineties to define his work).

HA has been initially developed in 2018 at the JRC Joint Research Center - European Commission in Ispra (Italy). The collaboration with the European Commission engineer and philosopher Nicole Dewandre played a key role in its development leading to an investigation throughout Hannah Arendt's thought. 
Roberto Paci Dalò has been working in collaboration with scientists at laboratories and the Centers for Advanced Studies of the JRC on topics such as Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Demolinguistics. During the first part of the project he created and premiered live in performance at JRC the piece ‘Space Is the Place’ for radio telescope sounds and modular synth. The project went on with Radio Arendt (a series of radio and philosophy workshops conducted by Roberto Paci Dalò and Nicole Dewandre in Barcelona, ​Sarajevo and Trieste); HA ARENDTRIESTE, interactive sound-video installation created for the Both Ways exhibition presented within Trieste ESOF 2020 and produced together with Trieste Contemporanea (here you can visit the VR version of the exhibition); HANNAH, live radio performance presented on Radio India - Teatro di Roma as part of the ‘Atlas of Transitions’ Biennale’s program (here is the podcast).

Thanks to Adriana Cavarero, Nicole Dewandre, Giuliana Carbi Jesurun, Marina Lutmann, Adriaan Eeckels, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Heidi Mancino. 
Thanks for their precious listening during the making of the piece to Gabriele Frasca, Stephanie Chauvel, Benedetta Calisesi Stern.

 HA was completed during Hanukkah 2020.

 It is suggested to listen to the piece with headphones in order to fully experience the movements and spatialisation of the sound.



Bibliography

 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958.
 Elias Canetti, Masse und Macht, Hamburg: Claassen, 1960. 
–   Die Stimmen von Marrakesch. Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise, Regensburg: Reihe Hanser, 1967.
 Adriana Cavarero, Democrazia sorgiva, Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2019.

Roberto Paci Dalò, was born in Rimini, grew up in Tremosine sul Garda and he has lived in Berlin, Naples, Rome, and periodically in Vancouver BC; he currently lives and works in Rimini and Tremosine sul Garda. His work has won him international admiration from – amongst the others – John Cage, Giya Kancheli, Robert Ashley, and Aleksandr Sokurov. Composer, musician, director, author, sound and visual artist, radio-maker his work has been presented worldwide in museums, biennials, theatres and festivals including the Venice Biennale, Wien Modern, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Vienna Opera House, Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles, Triennale Milan, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Bauhaus Weimar, Musica Strasbourg, MaerzMusik Berlin, Experimental Intermedia New York, Western Front Vancouver. He leads the group Giardini Pensili (co-founded in 1985) and he has been the recipient of the Berliner Küsterprogramm des DAAD Fellowship (1993-1994) and the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana (2015). He created and directed LADA L'Arte dell'Ascolto radio festival (Rimini, 1991-1998) and composed more then 50 radio works produced internationally. In 1995 he created Radio Lada, web radio conceived as an exhibition space for sound art. Founder and director of Radio Lada, Itaca - the electronic stage of the Teatro di Roma (1999-2001) and Velvet Factory (2006-2016). Collaborations include Kronos Quartet, Alvin Curran, Julia Kent, Fennesz, Robert Lippok, Patrizia Valduga, Rupert Huber, Terry Riley, Giorgio Agamben, Predrag Matvejevic', Guido Guidi, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Gabriele Frasca, Tom Cora, David Moss, Paolo Tassinari, Stefano Boeri, Akio Suzuki, Philip Jeck, Stefano Scodanibbio, Scanner, Fred Frith, Gerfried Stocker, Horst Hörtner, Adriana Borriello, Peter Courtemanche. Since 2018 Expert and Artist at the European Commission. Roberto is member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft (Berlin) and the British Cartographic Society. He is professor of Exhibit and Interaction Design at UNIRSM Design (Republic of San Marino) where he is the founder and director of Usmaradio - radio station and Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies. Co-founder of ‘The School of Radio’ (2014). His latest book is Ombre (Quodlibet 2019).