Engaged for several years in a personal research on the essence of language, Ledda, thanks to the intervention of Zimmefrei, composes a soundscape in which the spoken words take on the consistency of things, resonating in a darkened space, like material objects that meet moving in the dark. In Gavino Ledda’s vision, the words spoken (stones, mare, water, guazza, drool and oxen…) are like colors (colòres), a minimal primer of sinni, the quavers of the Sardinian language, which the sound makes flourish.
The maieutics of the writer, shepherd-child who names the visible, taking possession of the world by escaping the law of the father-patriarch, is intact and still enchanted. The territory explored by Zimmerfrei is made of matter, and sound is the part of matter that can be extracted from things and deposited in other places, without those things changing their nature.
ZimmerFrei was born in Bologna in 2000 from the meeting between Anna Rispoli, theater director and performer, Anna De Manicor, video maker, and the sound designer Massimo Carozzi. Through the production of works of various formats (sound environments, video installations, performances, multimedia shows, documentary films and photographic series), the collective carries out an investigation of the natural landscape, the city, and the contemporary social universe of which they are identified from time to time, images, narratives, emotional tones. An exploration of the present strongly connected to the idea of ”permanence”, of a period of time spent observing and living in close contact with a specific place, which highlights the complexity, the gray areas, the stratifications of times and spaces, stories and the symbolic power of places.
Gavino Ledda born in Siligo in 1938, he is a writer, glottologist and scholar of the Italian and Sardinian languages. After a childhood spent in the countryside with his shepherd father, he emancipated himself from illiteracy as an adult by graduating in glottology at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. In 1970 he was admitted to the Accademia della Crusca and the following year appointed assistant of Romance philology at the University of Cagliari. He subsequently tells his autobiographical story in the novel Master father . The success of the novel, translated into forty languages, led the Taviani brothers to make a film from it in 1977.
I know sinnoso, frese de su sonnu is created in collaboration with Venticinquegradi. On 25 October, at 9pm, in the space of Vico II delle Acacie 5 (Saline/Cagliari/Parco di Molentargius), Zimmerfrei presents “Safari”, a real-time selection and recombination of an archive of sound recordings collected in different parts of the world in the last 10 years.
