Quattro tempi
QUATTRO TEMPI is a simple work, with a strong emotional impact. An audio-visual panorama, realised through
the simultaneous shooting of four digital cameras facing the four cardinal directions, and a quadraphonic
score that alternates pure sound elements with a thinned out musical writing.
The four projectors give an “immersive” image of the place, putting the viewer in the center of the landscape:
the quadraphonic sound does the rest, recreating (and reinterpreting) the acoustic experience. The artwork is
easily accessible, even though developed on various layers. Although the image was shot after the real
landscape and in real time, the sound was re-created and synchronized in studio, isolating some elements,
eliminating and processing some others.
Plus, a musical score was created, directly interacting with the ambient sound.
There are no human beings in the images: the human presence is just slightly suggested, summarizing in a
presence-absence, both visually, through clues, and acoustically – through sporadic musical “dots”,
representing the only authorial elements in a classical sense.
QUATTRO TEMPI is a series, from which TIRRENO INVERNALE is the first part. The pace of the premières will be
seasonal, and the shootings will be done in the relative periods of the year. Each première will be, for an
ethical choice, immediately subsequent to the shooting, in order to keep the moment of the “catch” as close as
possible with the moment of the fruition.
QUATTRO TEMPI is nothing but the time, the real one, the one you need to waste in order to realize its
flowing.
QUATTRO TEMPI is nothing but the movement, the one you need to stay still in order to notice it.
QUATTRO TEMPI is born after an idea of purity. The idea, that was tickling/obsessing Luigi Porto for years,
has found a fertile ground in the sensibility of Gianluca Colitta, director and spiritual collaborator in this
game of absence.
QUATTRO TEMPI first part: TIRRENO INVERNALE was realised between Rome and New York during February 2013.
The video was shot in Ostia, on February the 4th, 2013, at 12pm, by Gianluca Colitta with Eugenio Barzaghi as
cinematographer. The location was discovered (and internalized) by Colitta and Porto during an inspection for
the short film L'Inverno.
The 4-channel score provides an acoustically modified piano and a processed ambient sound.
The installation is developed by Massimo Palermo, drummer and electronic musician, trusted friend and
long-time co-worker. He also developed the technical aspects of the performance using Max Jitter. TIRRENO
INVERNALE is nothing but a movie with no “offscreen” – we can actually say that the “offscreen” is in the
screen. For the rest it has, like all films, a camera crew, a post-production, small and diligent actors
(cormorans) and a great special guest, the Sea.
video installation
USA/IT 2013 | 10' | col. | HD
produced by Luigi Porto and Gianluca Colitta | concept, music and sound Luigi Porto | directed by Gianluca Colitta | camera (col. HD) Eugenio Barzaghi | editing Paola D'Andrea | curator Massimo Palermo | preview 8-11 March 2013, Conservatorio "Stanislao Giacomantonio", Art of Sound - Sound of Art ed. 2013, Rende, Cosenza, Italy
