Daniela Cascella
Daniela Cascella is a music journalist and curator. Her research is mainly focused on experimental music and the intersections between sound, space and the visual arts. She is one of the editors of the Italian monthly music magazine Blow Up and she is Rome editor of Contemporary. She collaborates as a freelance writer with other magazines in Italy and abroad (The Wire and MusicWorks). She curated a number of exhibitions and projects on her main area of research, among which VideoVibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK (Throbbing Gristle screenings, 2000), Perspectives (Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai, Mika Vainio, 2001), Stun Shelter (John Duncan / CM von Hausswolff, 2003), Erewhon (Kurzmann/Stangl, Ikeda/Nicolai, J. Duncan, Philip Jeck, 2003), Orbita (Grönlund / Nisunen, 2005), Eco e Narciso (Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, J.Duncan/Valerio Tricoli, Jacob Kirkegaard, Stephan Mathieu, Steve Roden, 2006). She is curating TRACKS, a monthly series of sound performances and lectures exploring contemporary sound culture, hosted by the British Academy in Rome. She is currently curating, with Alter Ego ensemble, a project that will commissions new collaborations between musicians and visual artists to be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in autumn 2007. Her first book, Scultori di Suono (“Sculptors of Sound”), was published in 2005.
Daniela Cascella is a music journalist and curator. Her research is mainly focused on experimental music and the intersections between sound, space and the visual arts. She is one of the editors of the Italian monthly music magazine Blow Up and she is Rome editor of Contemporary. She collaborates as a freelance writer with other magazines in Italy and abroad (The Wire and MusicWorks). She curated a number of exhibitions and projects on her main area of research, among which VideoVibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK (Throbbing Gristle screenings, 2000), Perspectives (Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai, Mika Vainio, 2001), Stun Shelter (John Duncan / CM von Hausswolff, 2003), Erewhon (Kurzmann/Stangl, Ikeda/Nicolai, J. Duncan, Philip Jeck, 2003), Orbita (Grönlund / Nisunen, 2005), Eco e Narciso (Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, J.Duncan/Valerio Tricoli, Jacob Kirkegaard, Stephan Mathieu, Steve Roden, 2006). She is curating TRACKS, a monthly series of sound performances and lectures exploring contemporary sound culture, hosted by the British Academy in Rome. She is currently curating, with Alter Ego ensemble, a project that will commissions new collaborations between musicians and visual artists to be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in autumn 2007. Her first book, Scultori di Suono (“Sculptors of Sound”), was published in 2005.
.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing So
Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and ‘deranged essays’, with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the texts in these pages, responding to encounters with Michel Leiris’s autobiographical fictions; concerts and events at Café Oto and the Swedenborg House in London; visits to museums such as the Pitt Rivers in Oxford and exhibitions such as Ice …
Scultori di suono
"Scultori di suono: percorsi nella sperimentazione musicale contemporanea" raccoglie una serie di percorsi attraverso i grandi cambiamenti avvenuti nella sperimentazione non ortodossa e nel modo di fare e di pensare il suono negli anni Novanta: la glitch music e la rivoluzione ‘riduzionista’, i primi segnali di ‘dissenso’, il ritorno della melodia, il rapporto tra suono e spazio, le poetiche della frammentazione, della decadenza, della memoria."Scultori di suono" comprises a number of paths thro…