Paolo Giudici visits the Spicer household to discuss his new installation at the Royal College of Art In London

Italian artist/photographer Paolo Giudici (http://www.usodimare.com/) came last Sunday to talk about his show at the Royal College of Art in London. I'm writing a soundscape for the performance on Thursday 18th May at the RCA. This a multi-media performance for photography/performance and soundscape. It will last 8 hours. Photos to follow. The installation is based around the death of his relative on the Eastern Front in WWII, who was a member of the Alpini Julia regiment. It's an antiwar piece that uses Paolo's voice to evoke the past by singing an Italian war song, Sul Ponte di Perati - here the link to the lyrics: (http://ingeb.org/songs/uncorodi.html).

The soundscape uses electronically manipulated voice and electronics using MAX/MSP, (http://www.cycling74.com/products/maxmsp) Reason, Audacity software and Zoom Studio 1201 multi-effects, Apple G3 laptop and Fostex multitracker 380s. This will be played through 6 DVD players in live performance at the RCA with aleatoric interjection from 5 of the DVD players using a shuffle setting.

Paolo's work Venexia is above left and right is Zodiacus