Ozio

For Ozio I thought of an acoustic environment built on the relationship between synthetic sounds and “traditional” musical instruments such as clarinet, cello, double bass. Fragments of human voices appear as further material. Some of Ozio’s sounds are the result of journeys, paths, crossings, explorations that actually took place in the real world and in its soundscape. Others are the result of a relationship with musicians capable of producing truly special sounds for the relationship they have with their instrument (such as the double bass player Stefano Scodanibbio or the cellist Joan Jeanrenaud).
A further group of sounds is instead the result of a digital journey within thoughts and perception. Crossing territories called waveforms, sinusoids, oscillators, frequencies, pulsations, bpm with an acoustic magnifying glass. It is the combination of these analog and synthetic sounds that creates in me the emotion that underlies the work. Synthetic sounds are also used to have “subliminal” materials available. For example, very low frequencies with an almost imperceptible volume. Psychoacoustics strategies to work subtly on the passive perception of the listener. An image to get closer to the idea of the installation is that of a nocturnal forest where the sounds arrive from many points without distinction, creating an acoustic space as infinite as the territory we are crossing.

1. Bolex

11:32

2. Predrag

05:23

3. Lenz

04:25

4. Malchina

03:44

5. Windscheid

02:35

6. Levon

03:34

7. Mariposas

06:32

8. Random

12:32

Year

2000

Ozio

The word Ozio (idleness) leads me on the one hand to immediate considerations of rest and tranquillity. On the other hand to an ecstatic state where I am not embarrassed to use the word prayer or meditation. There are many ways of praying and there is no doubt that sound plays a fundamental role. The need to create a space for silence is inevitable. Where therefore the sounds created serve to define areas in which to listen to other sounds, housed in these niches of non-empty emptiness. The production of the CD is not only the documentation of the installation. In fact, I thought of the CD as a material intended for the acoustic memory of the project and – at the same time – as an instrument that allows the active listener to build a personal acoustic environment even in his own home or in any place of everyday life. So a CD that shouldn’t be listened to simply as music, but rather as sound (something far greater than music). To be listened to by selecting “random” in the player so that the various tracks never repeat themselves in the same way and can visit and build up the space by exploiting ever-changing echoes and reverbs.

Roberto Paci Dalò
Ithaca, May 2000

released May 1, 2000

Written and produced by Roberto Paci Dalò
Recorded at Itaca Studio, Rome
Mastered by Simone Corelli
Voices Predrag Matvejević, Levon Zekyian
Roberto Paci Dalò sampling, electronics
Joan Jeanrenaud cello on track 5
Stefano Scodanibbio doublebass on track 7

© 2000 Roberto Paci Dalò
(p) 2000 Trattocontinuo

Premio Trattocontinuo per la Grafica Europa
Ozio
Ideato e promosso dal Comune di Milano – Settore Giovani
A cura di Daniele Pitteri e Cristoph Radl
e con la collaborazione di Roberta Germano

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