It will be the concert of Ryoichi Kurokawa (Osaka, 1978), acclaimed audiovisual artist famous throughout the world, to inaugurate on Friday 3 May the spaces dedicated to the Department of Electronic Music and Jazz located on the -1 floor of XNL Piacenza, with which the section comes to life Music of XNL and the cultural project of the Center for Contemporary Arts of the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation is completed.
Cutting of the ribbon
Friday 3 May we will leave at 6.30pm with the ribbon cutting and presentation of the educational and cultural project and spaces, which have been set up with cutting-edge instruments and systems to make the Department of Electronic Music and Jazz of Piacenza a center strongly oriented towards innovation, not only for training and teaching, but also for composition and artistic-musical production and for artistic research and experimentation. The inaugural moment will close with a toast around 7.30pm and will be followed, at 8.30pm, by the projection of a musical videomapping on the façade of XNL created by the Conservatory’s Electronic Music Department.
XNL Piacenza: Ryoichi Kurokawa’s concert
The highlight of the dayscheduled for 9pm in the auditorium on the second floor of the center, it is Ryoichi Kurokawa’s concert/performance who, for the first time in Piacenza, will perform with the concert version of his sound project “s.asmbli / subassemblies“, an investigation and reflection on the relationship between nature and human artefacts on an architectural scale that the artist has translated into different artistic formats: a concert piece, multi-screen installations, prints, virtual reality and a version intended for projection for concerts live. The main sources of this project are three-dimensional data obtained through laser scanning of man-made architecture – ruins of buildings and nature – which are distorted and reconstructed as subsets, to create a new timeline with layers of order and disorder, between concrete and the abstract, which highlights both the strength of nature and that of art. The “subassemblies” concert version consists of a single screen, surround lighting and a 4.1 sound system. The event is with free entry but we strongly recommend booking your ticket at the link: eventbrite
www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-ryoichi-kurokawa-subassemblies-887629974147
May 4th
Saturday 4 May the music rooms of XNL will be open to the public all day and animated with sound installations by the students and teachers of the Conservatory.
Ryoichi Kurokawa (Osaka, 1978)
He is a Japanese audiovisual artist considered a pioneer in the field of music and art generated through the use of new technologies. Award-winning musician, performer and visual artist, his works have been presented in international festivals and art centers, from the Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris to the FACT in Liverpool, from the Venice Biennale to the Sónar in Barcelona, then at the Transmediale in Berlin , at the Tate Modern in London and in many other international contexts. www.ryoichikurokawa.com
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