Voce a vento
Claudia Losi in collaboration with Meike Clarelli
2021
Voce a vento (a book+ vinyl record) is the first volume of a new editorial series consisting of three consecutive volumes of an artist’s book and a vinyl record, conceived together with the artist Claudia Losi.
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On the occasion of the launch of the vinyl record, Claudia Losi has made a special edition artwork of 50 linocuts on printed paper to sustain the project.
Voce a vento represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018.
Commissioned by Jazzi association and curated by Katia Anguelova, for Voce a Vento Losi chose a collective direction in which choral and polyphonic singing played a central role and developed with a collective and inclusive direction. For a few days, some thirty women from both the Emilia and Cilento regions have used their voices to dwell on the tracks of Monte Bulgheria in the National park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, under the guidance of Meike Clarelli (singer, musician and researcher) and with the participation of Elena Bojkova, soloist of the Bulgarian Female Vocal Choir ‘Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares’.
The publication contains texts by Claudia Losi; written following the collective experience of the "laboratori camminati" which involved different guests and local hiking groups on each instance to collect a variety of ‘views.’ The writing contains a variety of possible readings. The words put together by the artist as such become a storyline, based on the collected material and the shared walking experiences they are woven together from the vegetal, animal, human, as well as the geological and atmospheric realms. Furthermore, the words are inspired by works songs, women’s songs in particular, in which the words form a ‘mapping’ of the landscape through “the voices of the human beings who are part of it.”
The shared experience is thus confided to the pages and takes the form of a publication with the artist’s original texts and a vinyl record containing eight original tracks:
1.Chiamata (Calling)
2.Animale (Animal)
3.Atmosferico (Atmospheric)
with the participation of Elena Bojkova (Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares)
4.Vegetale (Vegetal)
5.Passo (Step)
with the participation of Elena Bojkova (Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares)
6.Raccogli e conserva (Gather and preserve)
7.Quanto tempo (How long)
8.Eleno, Tchedo! (Performed by Elena Bojkova)
Technical sheet
Editorial series: Passo chiama Passo
Volume I: Voce a vento by Claudia Losi, with Meike Clarelli
Curated by Katia Anguelova
Graphic design: Brice Delarue | Zirkumflex
Booklet and record cover printed by: Ediprima srl, Piacenza
Edition 500
Published by Kunstverein Publishing (Milano)
ISBN KVPublishing (Milano): 978-88-32125-02-3 /
ISBN Snaporazverein: 978-88-945825-0-5
Texts by: Katia Anguelova, Federica Maria Bianchi, Claudia Losi, Valeria Verdolini
Translations by: Ben Balzagette, Andrew Tanzi
LP vinyl record
Texts : Claudia Losi
Original musicscores, sound drama and arrangements: Meike Maria Clarelli; tracks 3 and 7: Meike Maria Clarelli / Davide Fasulo; track 5: public domain.
Choir rehearsals and preparations: Meike Clarelli, Elisabetta Dallargine, Fulvia Gasparini
Choirs: Le Chemin des Femmes (Modena/Bologna), Kamaraton (Camerota), Vivat (Lentiscosa) con la collaborazione di Amigdala (Modena).
With the special participation of Elena Bojkova, soloist of the choir Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.
Sound, overdubbing and mixing: Davide Cristiani, Bombanella Soundscapes
Mastering: Andrea De Bernardi, Eleven M
Manufactured by Record printed by: Vinilificio (Bologna) / Rand Muzik (Leipzig, D)
Record LabelMusic label: A Buzz Supreme Srl.
Digital Label: Murmur music and arts
Papermaking design by: ML
Catalogue number: CMK 59352801
Produced by Snaporazverein_CH / suisa ®
The series “Passo chiama Passo” is published by Kunstverein Publishing and is co-produced with Federica M. Bianchi for Snaporazverein_CH
The first volume of the editorial series “Voce a vento” received the support of Fondazione Shapdiz.
