Event

Electric forests for Kids

WORKSHOP Registration is required at the Lucia festival reception (Cango)Free admission while places last Electric forests: Saturday 14 December at 1.45 p.m. and 5.15 p.m.Electric forests for children: Sunday 15 December at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. (children must be accompanied by an adult) Just as the trees in a forest cannot hear the sounds […]

Electric forests

Just as the trees in a forest cannot hear the sounds of their foliage being moved by the wind, man too is surrounded by non-intentional sounds that his naked ear cannot hear.

Electric forests

Just as the trees in a forest cannot hear the sounds of their foliage being moved by the wind, man too is surrounded by non-intentional sounds that his naked ear cannot hear.

Theremin. Una storia segreta

ASCOLTO Premio Lucia 2024 Winner : ProjectsPREMIEREat the presence of the author How many stories can a musical instrument tell? Theremin, a secret history is a headlong rush of sound and words, a narrative journey to discover the dawn and sunset of one of the first electronic instruments. It is an unusual choral fresco that […]

Focus reportage

TALK and LISTENINGS THIS SESSION IS IN ITALIAN ONLY This year, Lucia’s usual focus on the history of radio in Italy, turns its ears to two seminal reportage-pieces. Accompanied by Marta Perrotta and Rodolfo Sacchettini, we will listen to Amerigo Gomez and Victor De Santis’s incredible 1944 account of the battle for the liberation of Florence in its […]

Potovanje na robu noči

LISTENING Dr Evgen Bavčar has a special ritual. For over forty years, he has been recording the nightingale singing on May nights in his hometown of Lokavec near Ajdovščina. Under the nocturnal cloak, in duet and in collaboration with the nightingale, the story from Lokavec unfolds into a narrative of the nightingales’ blinding so they […]

The only animal that can speak?

A documentary produced within the context of YASS! mentorship propgram. Mentor: Yasmina HamlawiWORLD PREMIERE A creative audio documentary exploring questions of voice and listening from scientific, artistic, philosophical and political perspectives.  Who – and what – do we deem capable of having a voice, and worthy of being listened to? And how does the way […]

From the Bauhaus to Spotify

A reflection on the evolution of audio production from the craftsmanship of the ‘radio revolution’ between art and imagination to the standardisation derived from the industrial mass production of content for listening.

Carte Blanche Semi Silent

LIVE An immersive listening session to ‘prepare the ears’ for the day. In collaboration with Semi Silent, sound artist Ana Teodora Popa guides participants through a series of immersive listening and physical resonances.Lying down, with eyes closed or motion, Ana Teodora Popa and Semi Silent use sound to manipulate perception and evoke emotions. For the […]

Reality looks back

LISTENING A piece produced within the context of YASS! mentorship programMentor: Cristal DuhaimeWORLD PREMIERE When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing. This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s […]