Dissonanze is the electronic music and digital art festival of Rome…
Since the year 2000, Dissonanze experiments and entertains exploring the relationship between creativity and technology, researching the unusual connections between sight and sound, between lights, rythm, color, noise, silence and the architecture of its magnificent locations...
As well as famous artists and successful art works, the festival presents emerging artists, previews, original collaborations and site specific productions commissioned by Dissonanze for the different and unusual spaces that host the event…
"This is our visual music!" is the claim for this edition.
Musique concrete and dance music, ambient and noise,techno and electro, 16mm film and neon lights, video and laser… Dissonanze 6 game is to stimulate an encounter of differences, extremes and opposites and let them explode in a flow of "visual music" that warps the normal dimension of a club, a concert room or a gallery, changing the art itself and the architectural structure of its location with 'total' shows that distort the normal dimensions of perception: from the spectacular United Visual Artists lights design and the techno and electro icons sets, to the project curated by eclectic Edwin van der Heide dedicated to the more experimental artists, passing through the selection of hypnotic audio-visuals ideated in collaboration with Digicult...
"This is our visual music!"
going to the terrace...
“ A lot of music is USING sounds, samples, textures, notes and or beats in order create it'sexperience. The program on the top of the palace however is focussing on music that ISsound, music that IS space and music that IS perception. The different participants arecomposing sound, space and perception in there own personal developed way. The roofintends to be an environment where the experience exceeds the focus on the performer.
Visual artists with a comparable approach: a strong focus on abstract structures and colorhave been invited to complete the experience. All the participants have been invited todevelop multiple shorter performances that all have their own specific quality. The twoevenings have been composed of these contributions. This is leading to two exceptional andcompletely different evenings that can not be seen anywhere else”.
Edwin van der Heide
