Beatrice Goldoni, Ilaria Lemmo, Margherita Morgantin, COSMIC SILENCE 5, fluorescence 4, 2024

COSMIC SILENCE 5, fluorescence 4 stems from visual artist Margherita Morgantin’s dialogue with two female musicians and sound makers as part of her research project VIP=Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle (2020-21). The disc, the sixth release of XONG collection – artist’s records, hosts on the one hand the translation into sound spectra of a series of data from the VIP experiment underway in the bowels of the Abruzzo mountains at the Gran Sasso LNGS Nuclear Physics Laboratories, elaborated by composer Ilaria Lemmo: the electronic sound constantly oscillates between source and destination in an environment of pure suspension. On the other, it presents a road-noise-recording born from the artist’s solitary journey from Milan to Porto by car, elaborated together with Beatrice Goldoni. About this double composition, the titles draw from two inspirational sources: Cosmic Silence is an experiment born in the scientific field with the aim of furthering the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the biological response to environmental radiation. Fluorescence alludes to the physical phenomenon of re-emission of received radiation that can be intercepted in the visible range in darkness. “Thus the gaze in darkness becomes listening.” (M.M.)

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