[+] GIOVANNI FONTANA (ITALY)
Electronic and Sound Mask
Poetry is with the voice, into the voice, behind the voice.
The voice is a signal of the unexpressed. It goes beyond saying. It speaks what is unsaid before creating words. The voice is both corpus and spiritus.
Poets must be able to sound in the deep: into the lobes of the brain folds and into the most obscure mazes of the body, into the memory and in the unconscious, into ability and into intentions.
The phonic stream will evoke its own double. It will recall the voice of the non-existent.
Poetry dies and lives again in the voice: the voice dies and lives again in sound.
The acoustic size of the unusual must be supported by electronic technology, by which the poet will always be able to build up their own sound mask. Behind it they won’t do music, but rather sound as one of the main aspects of language.
Born 1946 in Frosinone, Italy, Fontana has been dealing with multi-code languages, intermedia techniques, and synesthesia for 35 years. Interested in the relationships between arts, he carries on his exploration, starting from ‘phono-visual’ poetical matrices. Fontana graduated with a degree in architecture and has carried on his studies in the artistic, scientific, and musical fields. So far as the dramatic arts are concerned, he has been active as a playwright and occasionally as a director; he is interested in electronic arts and audiovisuals and has paid particular attention to the different aspects of cultural communication, taking into particular account the problems concerning the technological field. He has published many books and released many records.