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2019 Programme

Event #7

David Monacchi

Fragments of extinctions

In the primary forests where humans have not leave any trace yet, Nature sings and breaths like in the beginning of time – and maybe for the last time. Fragments of Extinction records those “acoustic portraits” that represent the auditory language of a planet rolling towards the sixth extinction. If we want to increase the public ecological awareness in order to save as much ecosystems as possible, we need to create an immaterial ark to guard the sounds of the world and a technological ark (the Sonosphera) to experience them through 3D soundscapes. David Monacchi’s words and his movie Dusk Chorus (written in collaboration with Alex d’Emilia and Nika Šaravanja) will lead us to the heart of the evolution’s sound and will unveil the acoustic harmony of ecosystems.

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David Monacchi (Urbino, 1970) studied in Italy, Canada and United States, and now he is professor at the Public Conservatory in Pesaro, Italy. He is an inter-disciplinary artist, composer and audio engineer, and he conducts a research on the sounds of the equatorial primary forests. With the project Fragments od Extinction he is pioneering a new compositional and science dissemination approach based on 3D soundscape recordings of ecosystems to foster discourse on the biodiversity crisis through educational and sound-art installations. He patented the Eco-acoustic Theatre invention. He was invited to the COP-14 ONU Conference on Biodiversity. He founded the International Society of Ecoacoustics, and author of the pluri-awarded movie Dusk Chorus and of the book L’arca dei suoni originari (Mondadori, 2019).

2019 Programme

Event #7

David Monacchi

Fragments of extinctions

Space Exploration: today, tomorrow, and… the day after

And they called it sapiens

The future is history

Sketches

A time that is not near

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)

Fragments of extinctions

Our future with A.I.

Will finance save the world?

Jokes on future

Taking care of oneself, of others, of the world

How is Earth’s climate changing?

The art of reading between past and future

The end of «the end of history»

Scott: future’s first explorer

Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?

Open Source Architecture

The inflamed mind

Will it still be possible to love you?

The race and the language: the future that does (not) expect us

Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic

The future of the theatre

Piano vs Groove

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The rebellion of the Ciompi (1378)

The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?

The Evil’s genes

The future of the word

Looking for immortality

Refugees’ future

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)

Robots of the future and plants

The chimera of peace

Re-writing the future of our children

City art versus outskirts art

Achilles, Odysseus and the truth of the future

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)