OUTTA PROGRAM
ITALY-SPAIN: the loser wins
On-air broadcast of the UEFA EURO 2024 qualifier match
Soundtracked by Antinoridelferrondedei
What happens when you take the commentary off a football match?
We are left with our thoughts, the noises, the desires, and formalities. Everything comes to the surface, a large green sea upon which coloured little fellows run; the sense of the game unravels and rolls on the sounds.
No one wants to go and pick up the ball outside any longer. We see the players erasing the white lines of the pitch and replace them with breadcrumbs. Each passage is wonderful. Crosses from the wing are like comets.
The referee whistles, but the Carnival is beginning. We wish it never ended.
Antinoridelferrondedei are a recent contemporary music band. They arrange standards of daily and baroque music with great technical and intentional skill, and then use it as sound-shaped landscapes on the occasion of exhibitions, festivals, and fairs. Since their earliest works in 1993, they have shown a marked propensity for non-conclusive gestures and a lack of any seductive attitude whatsoever towards the audience. They both have a long individual musical experience that are now putting to the service of the collective, hoping they’ll find some peace.
A decade of bare, unvarnished Wall; of wild, but reasoned programming; of illustrious and essential proposals. A space for experimentation whose embryo hatched in 2015. But then images clung to the Wall like ivy does in Spring, and sounds were set free like outlandish fireflies giving off their flashes over nocturnal paths. Now the Wall has become a (mutant and mutable) meeting that can’t be missed. Senses are unchained in a space in which, nourished by vibrating gazes, foraged by precious imaginaries, suggestions are redeemed. Novel psycho-temporal premieres, unique experiences that, between improvisations, surgical synchronizations, and emotional experiments, have elevated the unreal and turned it into… a reality. Palazzo Gradari, the temple of imagination. The five events of this year, poised between light and abyss, will give voice to original impromptu, and therefore absolute, experiences. Past the 2015-2024 twilight, the Wall of Sound is ready to take off.
Anthony Ettorre
We have looked this decade of projecting images onto the Wall of Palazzo Gradari in the eyes. We have caressed the profile of musicians intertwined with film directors of the past and the present, between the calculated gestures of actors and actresses or immersed in pure pictures untethered from any story. We have put all our desires in a row. The result was these 5 evenings, made of 5 unique live soundtracks, several unexpected meetings, animals, soccer players, and little dolls. The common thread – do not touch bare-handed! – might be the sweet dissolution of identity, when it becomes too stiff and makes us cantankerous and savage. It could also be the desire to discuss seriously about games and playing, discarding the fascist trivial assertion that it’s “stuff for children.” We’ll be waiting for critical analyses. We will never give up.
Vittorio Ondedei
The Wall of Sound reversed the idea that this solid, vertical object, the wall, conveys the notion of blocking, filtering, pushing back, separating, defending, shutting.
The images and sounds that have been played on that surface over the years made that wall crumble and collapse, every time.
The miracle is repeated punctually with the same enthusiasm and the same desire.
The wall becomes liquid, and we can cross it. Beyond it, there is infinity. By Palazzo Gradari, the divisive function of walls was never given a chance to exist. Ever.
Giuliano Antinori
TUTTE LE PROIEZIONI SONO GRATUITE
