Personal video transcription from Giuseppe Chiari’s sound performance, made on July 5, 1987, at Villa Demidoff (Pratolino - Florence) for Il fido maestro giardiniere, Festival of music, poetry, dance, video and performance by “Alfabeta”, Cooperativa Intrapresa, “In verse”, “Milanopoesia”, “Milano Suono”, and “Ottovolante”, during the day curated by Nanni Balestrini and Corrado Costa.

The camera is placed on a balcony, on the first floor of the villa overlooking the concert area. A position far from the musicians and behind the space left free for the movements of the audience, which is therefore in the foreground, albeit with its back to the camera. The sound is that created by Giuseppe Chiari and Carlo Nati, mixed with the footsteps and voices of the concert audience. The camera on the balcony is connected via a closed circuit to a television set in the space traversed by the audience, in the center of a disused pool.

In the video you see more people than those who occupied the field recorded by the camera on July 5, 1987. Within the space of the video image, a counterfeiting takes over, playing on the visible (the event) and the invisible (the language that transcribes that event). At the time, I summed up all this in the phrase: «THE PUBLIC PRODUCES THE EVENT. THE EVENT IS ITS OWN INFORMATION».

Giuseppe Chiari
piano

Carlo Nati
synthesizer

Roberto Costantino
spirit levels