ICMC BOSTON 2025
Online Listening Room
Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology
June 8-14, 2025
ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #2
ID#: 616
balancing pieces (2025) ; 4:40
by Paola Lopreiato
Conservatorio Torre Franca Vibo Valentia
We see only in parts / the flash of a tail, the beating heart / in pieces and parts / And there may be a few things you can’t recall at all / And you’re in pieces and part / Pieces and parts. (Revised text from the song “pieces and parts” by Laurie Anderson). This audiovisual work explores the relationship between memory and identity. Memory is deeply connected to identity, shaped by our interactions with people and places. Understanding oneself relies on personal experiences of people and places (and their memories). Philosophers and psychologists argue that self-awareness depends on memory, as our experiences contribute to who we are. Through images this piece allows participants to recall their own past, reinforcing the idea that memory and identity are continuously shaped by experiences. The audiovisual work alternates between the creation of large, calm spaces and moments of dynamism and vigor, reflecting the fluctuations of our inner world, where memories are kept. It balances music and images, inviting the listener to explore a profound emotional and spiritual connection.
Paola Lopreiato
Paola Lopreiato completed her Ph.D in new Media art at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA-HUB) University of Plymouth. Her research interests include the multisensoriality, electronic and computer technology, acoustic, interactions between gesture, image, sound and word. She received an MPhil in Multimedia composition from University of Sheffield, a MA in electroacoustic composition and BA in piano from Conservatory of Florence, a BA in multimedia and painting from the Academy of fine art of Florence. Her work has been exhibited in: SANTARCANGELO39, 7 stanze in cerca di autore in MANTOVA, Marino Marini Museum Piazza della Signoria Firenze, Festival della Creativita Palazzo Strozzi Firenze. Also exhibited in UK University of Chester, University of Bournemouth, Sheffield Drama Studio, Belfast SARC, in USA SEAMUS 2011and 2012, New York City Electro acoustic Music Festival 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014, NYU, Stedman Art Gallery NJ, Rutgers University, in Greece Corfu Academia Yonica, Kefalonia ICAC gallery and the Athenian I-Club; in Mexico Fonoteca National 2011, in Slovenia Ljubljana ICMC 2012, in Australia Perth ICMC 2013, Rio de Janeiro August 2014 CAC4, Istanbul Halka project october 2014, Johannesburg South Africa December 2014 Fak’ugesi conference, Plymouth Undivided mind conference, Portugal Obras foundation 2015, Beijing China conference: Consciousness, synchronicity and art 2018 , Belgrade studio – 2018, Nordanbal – old school, Iceland – Hrisey -2018, 2019 – Diffrazioni Festival, . 2022- Muscat, Oman USERN 7TH Congress, 2020- Teheran Iran USERN 5TH Congress, 2021 ICMC 2021, Santiago, Chile She was Production manager Diffrazioni Festival from 2014 till 2017. Her teaching experience was mainly at the conservatory of Perugia, Bologna, sound design at Academy of fine art of Carrara and she is now teaching Electroacoustic composition at the conservatory of Torre Franca (VV Italy).
* winner, Berklee College of Music internal music composition competition for ICMC Boston 2025
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