Long Night Talks

2017
Long night talks. For Robert Adrian
is a work by Roberto Paci Dalò created during his residency at TONSPUR – Q21/ MQ MuseumsQuartier Wien in July 2017. The piece is dedicated to Robert Adrian X (1935-2015), a pioneer in art and telecommunications, and is composed by a 8-channel sound work and 7 images.

Roberto Paci Dalò worked on Adrian’s voice using it as a main material for the installation. The visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themeselves in the grain of the voice together with field recordings, instrumental and electronics sounds. A journey into fascinating times and experiences where visitors are surrounded by sounds in the unique TONSPUR multi-channel audio environment. Parallel to the sound work, the artist created a series of 7 drawings conceived as a constellation. A nocturnal sky which is also a graphic score for the piece. The seven drawings remind to the 7 days of an imaginary week together with Robert Adrian in his studio in the Vienna’s Wiednerhauptstraße.

The piece is dedicated to Robert Adrian X (1935-2015) a pioneer in art and telecommunications. The Canadian artist lived in Vienna since 1972 and his contribution to the art world has been also witnessed by a large retrospective at Kunsthalle Wien back in 2001.
Through more that two decades Adrian and Paci Dalò shared a close friendship also working together on several projects including a film Paci Dalò especially created for Adrian’s major retrospective. The two used to sit in Adrian’s studio in the Wiednerhauptstrasse and share long night talks dicussing passionately about art, radio, transmission, technologies, web, surveillance, sound, warfare, and conflicts.

Long night talks– project notebook

Long night talks – Tonspurpassage, Installation by Roberto Paci Dalò

Long night talks – drawing

Long night talks – drawing

Credits

idea, composition, images
Roberto Paci Dalò
voice
Robert Adrian
bass clarinet, clarinet, electronics
Roberto Paci Dalò
contra-alto clarinet
Susanna Gartmayer
guitar, electronics
Fennesz

piano, electronics
Robert Lippok (recorded at Farmhouse Studio Rimini)
installation set up
Peter Szely
technical collaboration
Stefano Spada, Andrea Felli
text
Lucas Gehrmann (Kunsthalle Wien)

production
TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
for the series TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum
artistic director
Georg Weckwerth
in collaboration with
Ö1 Kunstradio, Giardini Pensili, Usmaradio