Sguardi Sonori 2011:

INFINITE SPACES A great concert for astronaut and

orchestra

directed by Ennio Morricone with

Roberto Vittori and Paolo Nespoli

By FaticArt Association

Sandro Cecchi ESTEC 8.3.2011

Sguardi Sonori is a festival of contemporary art organized by

the nonprofit cultural association FaticArt which takes place in

Italy with artists from around the world since 2004. The sections of

the festival are: electronic music, soundart installation,

performance art, contemporary art (installations, video art,

painting, photography).

The event INFINITE SPACES will take place between April and

May 2011 is a concert conducted by Maestro Ennio Morricone,

which could take place from Rome or another place in the world in

conjunction with the International Space Station with the

participation as a soloist of the astronaut Roberto Vittori

(probably in April 2011 since the launch date of the ultimate Space

Shuttle mission STS-134 has been fixed on April 19th 2011) or

other Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who is already on the ISS

and will remain there until May 16, 2011.

The project was selected by the Ministry of Public

Administration and Innovation for participation from July 24th to

August 7th 2010 at the Italian Pavilion at World Expo in Shanghai

for the exhibition “Italia degli Innovatori” (Innovators of Italy).

This concert could be broadcasted worldwide over the 5

continents (Dubai, Seoul, Assisi / Rome, Jerusalem, Dakar /

Johannesburg, Beijing / Shanghai, Sydney, New York, etc..) and it

will see the participation of the greatest artists in the world that will

give their contribution to what should be the most universal

CONCERT FOR PEACE ever made: a Woodstock of the third

millennium that will be broadcasted around the world via satellite

in High Definition 3D in theatres that are equipped with this

technology via Eutelsat- OpenSky.

The concert has already had a prologue INFINITE SPACES

Preview on July 20, 2009 in Rome at Piazza del Popolo on the

occasion of the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the

landing on the moon.

The video of the memorable execution occurred in the presence

of 100,000 people filled the square is visible on the Facebook

page

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1166466540229

that is in the space devoted to Video of the group "SGUARDI

SONORI Sound Art Festival" or on YouTube

The videoclip of July 20th2009 and the

Exhibion held at Museo della Civiltà

Romana on October 9th 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-zgTUzmAKM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVrAOWtTr10

LOCATIONS 2011

Various locations, one for the continent, connected directly to

the hall where the orchestra of the Maestro Ennio Morricone

will perform INFINITE SPACES in conjunction with the

International Space Station.

Among those taken into account for the Maestro Morricone’s

Orchestra:

Altare della Patria, Rome

Basilica of Assisi,

Stazione Marittima of Naples,

Piazza San Giovanni, Rome

Other in the world:Taiwan, Seoul, Jerusalem, Johannesburg,

Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Sydney, New York, London.

INFINITE SPACES: the project

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCERT LIVE FROM THE

SPACE STATION IN 2011

Date to be determined in accordance with a schedule of launches

to the ISS and with the workplan of the STS-134 mission and ISS

operations. Hopefully it will be done during the next mission of the

Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori and Paolo Nespoli by April-May

2011.

The project was designed by Sandro Cecchi and Carlo Fatigoni

and includes the participation of the Italian astronauts Roberto

Vittori and Paolo Nespoli and Ennio Morricone with whom we

work on a possible "score for astronaut and orchestra".

This can be done live with worldwide broadcasting in conjunction

with the International Space Station (ISS) with the participation of

some of the greatest artists in the world playing together the

astronauts aboard the ISS.

PARTICIPANTS

Some of the artists considered are: Bruce Springsteen, Bono,

Sting, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Ravi Shankar,

Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Scanner, DJ Spooky, Vijay Iyer,

Alice Coltrane, Juan-Claude Risset, Franco Battiato,

Alessandro Cortini, Elio Martusciello, Phill Niblock, Richard

Devine, Neil Leonard, Lamonte Young, David Byrne, Ellen

Fullman.

The event should last from 2 to 3 hours depending on locations and

related artists. The live audio-video contact with the ISS last from 8

to 20 minutes, unless NASA makes available a permanent link to

the Space Station during the event.

During one of this audio-video contact will be performed "Concerto

for Astronaut and Orchestra" INFINITE SPACES by Ennio

Morricone.

Implementation of the score of the

"Concerto for Astronaut and

Orchestra" by the astronaut side

The astronaut will be connected with the control room of the

concert. The performance of the score by the astronaut will be

made by sending the appropriate

command (control data) of an OSC

(Open Sound Control) with his

hands movement that will modulate

propriately through the softwares

Density and Pulsaret the sounds of

the stars and the universe that are

preloaded on a Apple host computer

in the control room on ground.

The submission of monitoring data generated by the

astronaut from the ISS to the Earth with his movement implies

that the OSC protocol is present as a special application

written for the Ground Control Computer in the Control

Room.

The conductor gives the ON / OFF command to run the score to

the astronaut. The command may be given either in video, if the

astronaut has a chance to see the

conductor as well as ON / OFF

directly on the astronaut interface.

The sounds are mixed in real time

on ground with the music of the

orchestra and with any other sound

The nature of electronic sounds

generated by the astronaut will be of

two types:

1) real sound of space, concrete materials like “Cassini Listens to

Lightning at Saturn”, “Sounds of the Magnetosphere”, “Voyager

Termination Shock” and so on.

2) synthetic sound: microsound implementation of Pulsaret

Wavlet, Grainlet Granular Synthesis Technique, etc..

Software author: Density/Pulsaret DSP: Alessandro Petrolati

Requirements: on the ISS:

- ”inflight call” with the astronauts

on the Earth:

MacBook pro Intel

internet access point with a static IP address

audio mixer for the regia and electronic sound integration

Pulsaret v.1.0 Microsound Prototypes Granular Synthesis: Glisson, Pulsar,

Grainlet, Trainlet

www.densitygs.com

Alessandro Petrolati

ape@kagi.com

© 2010

Pulsaret is a new interactive real-time

program for asynchronous/synchronous

prototypes granular synthesis. Pulsaret

implements a wide range of time-domain

varieties of granular synthesis:

glisson, grainlet, trainlet pulsar etc... Sound disintegration,

pulverizer, sampled envelope “convolution”, dynamic draw

envelope/shape, interpolation-transitions and Hyper Vectorials

pads they simplify the creation of incredible sound objects. All

parameters are controllable via MIDI learning/rescale and OSC

network. Matrix & LFO provide a powerfull way to connect one

parameter with a dependent parameter/s, implementing all

grainlets kind.

PULSARET FEATURES .eight granular sreams simultaleously

.envelope/windowing menage up to 16 pre-generated shape

(prototypes)

.envelope/windowing loading and menage up to 12 sound-files

(aiff,wav,mp3)

.dynamic envelope buffer load/save, normalize, trim, resize

length etc...

.main mixer 8 channels + 1 master, solo/mute and VST slots,

Master cascade~ filter

.multichannels I/O mapping

.quick-record export master channel and/or multichannel file

streams, progressive file autoname, select directory and re-

sampling/quantize out file

.snapshots (presets) memory: up to 100 for each stream and 10

for the main mixer and global snapshots

.simultaleously (streams and main) transition (interpolation)

between snapshots (in a given time)

.clients menage: include/esclude widgets from transitions

.four draw table for transitions curves

.micro-pad interpolating between four snapshots

-HV_pad (i.e. hyper vectorial pad), 9 snapshots pad (4 pad

near), and auto-explorer (spiral, dunk, reflects) engine

- MIDI/OSC input mapping: learn/manual, rescale range and

exponential curve

- MIDI/OSC output sync: enable/disable, continuously or mouse

up send

- fully menaging the project (as a folder), save/save as and load

- drag and drop on windowing wave-pads (audio files or folder)

to fill menù soundfiles or project folder in main windows to load

project

- stereo panning rotation: pan, jitter, lfo (shape/hz)

- panning time, note based sync.keyboard frequency select

(streams)

-windowing sndfiles consolidate (copy buffers in the prj folder)

- every stream can deforming own windowing envelope

(attack/decay)

- global presets, menage all Pulsaret widgets together

- snapshots list, consecutive rename

- global transport time

- snapshots sequencer rhythms improviser unit

- windowing deformation shape MIDI/OSC

- clue windows, report widgets information under the mouse

- matrix parameter linkage, rescale and LFO modulation range in

Grainlet Synthesis

- pulsaret length/cps and viceversa dependency

- cascaded series of biquad filters for each stream

- simply signal-oscilloscope, that allows you to monitor the visual

progression of master waveform

Platform Requirements: Mac OS X (10.4 or higher; G5 or Intel faster recommended);

Windows XP/Vista/7;

QuickTime to enable mpeg support.

This event is organized by FaticArt Association with the

Association ARS Latina representing Maestro Ennio Morricone.

Direction: Sandro Cecchi, Carlo Fatigoni

Contacts :

Sandro Cecchi e-mail: scecchi@tiscali.it cell.+39-3489355169

Carlo Fatigoni e-mail: faticarte@gmail.com cell.+39-3334824310

THANK YOU -------------------------------------------------------

ing. Sandro Cecchi

Founder of Italian Center Consortium (www.myitaliancenter.com)

Director of Sound Art Festival SGUARDI SONORI

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cell.3489355169 e-mail: scecchi@tiscali.it

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