Radio Hito: L'uso e gli attributi del cuore
With Radio Hito, Zen My Nguyen has spent the last two years adapting a poem by Claude Royet-Journoud, « L’usage et les attributs du cœur » (POL, 2021). A ten-sequences song cycle for soundfonts and voice and an Italian libretto (L’uso e gli attributi del cuore) which had evolved over the course of about 80 concerts, from Galicia to Kazakhstan, before finding their recorded form. Her project is experimental and based on principles of economy of performance, simple words, forms and contexts; if poetry is a ‘profession of ignorance’ according to Claude Royet-Journoud, then Radio Hito would gladly be a hobby that strives to know.
Photo: Vasantha Yogananthan
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