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Projects by Steve Piccolo, including shows done with Art Apart

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Events calendar 2014

Upcoming events with Steve Piccolo 30 Jan-2 Mar: Ongoing Fight Specific Isola at Sale Docks, Venice 1 Feb-7 Mar: E IL TOPO exhibition at Frans Masereel Centrum, Masereeldijk 5, Kasterlee, with performance at opening 3-9 Feb: Fightclub Everyday, National Gallery of Tirana, Albania 14-15 Feb: in Rome at MAXXI and Magazzino d'arte moderna with Vedovamazzei 22 Mar: Hobbes Opera with A Constructed World in Montpellier, France 9 April: E IL TOPO invades via Bagnera in Milan during FuoriSalone New BLKNZM videos coming soon Installation "Hermitage" on view at Assab One in Milan until further notice Achtung Blumen! artists' book with Nathalie Du Pasquier, now available at Printed Matter, NYC E IL TOPO Red Letter Edition with stories by Steve, also available at Printed Matter and at Palais de Tokyo Watch for acoustic probe projects, concerts, etc Museums/galleries: Verbal Tic kits available now.

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link to website for Contemporary Locus 2, double solo show Steve Piccolo and Anna Franceschini

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Michael's Fire, installation by Steve Piccolo for Contemporary Locus 2, Bergamo, 2012

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The complete mix of voices from Cremona and Genoa performing Sondaggio - Panic Box in May 2012. Curated by Dino Ferruzzi CRAC Cremona and Silvia Cini Museo Villa Croce Genoa. Over 80 participants made non-verbal sounds in a Panic Box. The sounds were then assembled in mp3 files. The chorus listened to the assembled sounds on mp3 players and imitated them to create automatic almost-synchrony. No effects, no amplification. The live effect is better in spaces that reverberate, but the sum of the reverberating spaces becomes an inevitable annoyance in the assembled recording. Thanks to everyone who took part! Mix presented here in two parts due to size restrictions. 

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The complete mix of voices from Cremona and Genoa performing Sondaggio - Panic Box in May 2012. Curated by Dino Ferruzzi CRAC Cremona and Silvia Cini Museo Villa Croce Genoa. Over 80 participants made non-verbal sounds in a Panic Box. The sounds were then assembled in mp3 files. The chorus listened to the assembled sounds on mp3 players and imitated them to create automatic almost-synchrony. No effects, no amplification. The live effect is better in spaces that reverberate, but the sum of the reverberating spaces becomes an inevitable annoyance in the assembled recording. Thanks to everyone who took part! Mix presented here in two parts due to size restrictions. 

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more pics of chorus space found in center of Cremona in May 2012 for Sondaggio - PanicBox, curated by Dino Ferruzzi, coproduction with Museo Villa Croce, Genoa

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Sondaggio (Panic Box), Cremona (with simultaneous museum performance in Genoa), May 2012

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Sound installation The Bell at Villa Croce, Genoa, for exhibition “Carta Bianca Milano”, 2012

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Sound installation The Bell at Villa Croce, Genoa, for exhibition "Carta Bianca Milano", cur. Cecilia Guida, 2012. The installation plays with the idea that a song, from an actual published album, is also a work of art if heard in a different context. 

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More pics of sound installation "Urbanature" by Steve Piccolo at Festival of Imperial Gardens in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Natural sounds of crickets and birds that morph into clocks and even hidden voice messages. 

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Festival of Imperial Gardens, St. Petersburg, Russia, sound installation "Urbanature" by Steve Piccolo, next to flower carpet by studio Caturegli-Formica... believe it or not the sound system is hidden in the plastic bag under the caption sign... and it also worked! April-May 2011

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more pics from 8-channel installation by Steve Piccolo made with donated boomboxes and cassette decks at 24 Gauche Montreal in March 2012, using sounds recorded at Evento Bordeaux in 2011. 

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Bordeaux Panic Box: 8-channel sound installation made with donated boomboxes and cassette decks at 24 Gauche, Montreal, March 2012, with the help of Yves Sheriff.

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scenes from Steve Piccolo’s sound residency of sorts at Evento Bordeaux 2011, producing the installation Panic Box at Grand Parc with the help of lots of amazing people

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Another view of duellists by Gak Sato and Steve Piccolo with turntable work by Marc Vincent Kalinka in I MISS MY ENEMIES

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Aftermath of Noisy Town Planning performance by Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato, with duelling urbanists standing guard

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Steve Piccolo - The Bell - close-up