© Agnese Banti
SOUND[BOX]
The research aims to investigate the scenic, acoustic and dramaturgical possibilities of hiding and calling the sound. Becoming an evocative potential of ancestral worlds and questions, the inner and invisible sound in the box is interacting with the directional and “visible” voice of a gramophone bell. Body, voice and objects become one device both unknown and oracular.
Credits
Ongoing
Agnese Banti
Agnese, Delia Banti is a sound artist, performer and overtone singer based in Bologna. She collaborates with various personalities and realities of the performance and sound scene. Her artistic activity gravitates around composition for space, visual and sound dramaturgy, voice, soundscape studies and traditional music repertoires, research on the gesture-sound relationship and the collaborative dimension of the creative process. Among other things, she is dedicated to the transmission of overtone singing through moments of collective vocal sharing and for the past few years has been approaching matters of accessibility of artistic practices.
Recently, thanks to the support for artistic research from FONDO - Network for Emerging Creativity, she dedicated herself to her very first authorial performative project Speaking Cables, Choreographic Device for Voice, Cables and Speakers (and its spin-off), in collaboration with the sound designer and computer musician Andrea Trona, that will soon debut in its [EXPANDED] version for blind and visually impaired audiences at Romaeuropa Festival 2025.
Among collaborations: composer Roberto Laneri; electronic music collective ECB~; Tempo Reale /Centre for Music Production Research and Education; choreographer Marta Bellu and dancer Laura Lucioli as part of sound and movement performance I versi delle mani; actress and author Marta Vitalini; artists Laura Agnusdei, Elena Mattioli and Flavia Zaganelli for a shared stance in solidarity with Palestinian people; Grabinski Point and composer Stefano Pilia; dancer Giuseppe Comuniello, dramaturg Camilla Guarino and researcher Dalila D’Amico on accessibility.
She collects tapes, spoons and spinning tops in order to play them all.