Artist Profile: Romina Daniele & the Spannung Project
An overview of the award-winning vocal researcher’s trajectory from Diffrazioni Sonore to the new project Spannung. The review analyzes the Heideggerian influence on electronic composition and the evolution of voice as a medium of human tension.
Jean Renault
7/15/20111 min read
Romina Daniele – Preview of the New Album Spannung
On Sunday, July 24th, as part of an evening promoted by the Center for Contemporary Music in collaboration with Arci, Romina Daniele will perform. Daniele is the winner of the Demetrio Stratos International Prize for vocal research (2005 and 2007) and the Arci Prize for Musical Experimentation awarded during the "5 Days for New Music" Festival. On this occasion, she will preview compositions from Spannung, her new recording project to be released by RDM Records.
Spannung takes its title from the term used by Martin Heidegger to indicate the "tension" of being. In the research path Romina Daniele has pursued for ten years, music—facilitated by new technologies—is chosen as a device for investigating the human condition, while the voice is selected as the primary and direct medium of human expression.
This trajectory began with Diffrazioni Sonore (2005), exploring the relationship between vocal improvisation and technologically fixed sounds; it continued with Aisthànomai, the Drama of Consciousness (2008), which delved into the links between poetry and studio sound composition; and it now arrives at Spannung, a previously unreleased formal representation.
In an emancipated conception of music, references to genres—from blues to contemporary music—exist in a territory of crossing and undifferentiation, focused strictly on sound research and the composition of sonorous matter, both in vocality and electronic music.
Detailed information about the performance and the forthcoming project can be found on the dedicated Spannung page at RominaDaniele.com. [J. Renault]
