PROPOSTE SONORE

FORMAT - Sound architectures, is a group of musicians who worked along two main lines

of research: on the one hand, the testing of materials with creative approaches that

technology, especially the poor, offers daily use; to the other they study the acoustic

environment and its modifications. The products of this activity are about a hundred of

sound installations, sound sculptures, performances, theoretical interventions and radio

broadcasts. In 1993 FORMAT dissolved.

Francesco Michi

He continues the production of installations developing in a personal way the thesis that

were in the group, participates in exhibitions and concerts, collaborates in the opening

of spaces for experimental art in Florence. Collaborates with theater groups composing

incidental music and sound installations stage.

In 1995 he founded and then directed, with Elsa Mersi, the International Festival of

Experimental Music INCONTRI MUSICANICI in Florence.

From 1998 to 2007 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Cultural GAMO

Florence. Since 2009 he is the coordinator of Italian FKL ( Forum Klanglandschaft ),

International Association for the Soundscape.

Since 1999 he has also worked on music on the Web, both theoretically and designing

and implementing web-based music operations and holding workshops.

In 2000 he began working, with Albert Mayr, Luca Miti and Anton Roca, on the project

"Flow aestetic Bureau", with the aim of testing the forms and times for the enjoyment

of art and interactivity on the web.

Mechi Cena

Musician and writer of songs and radio stories. He wrote 25 episodes of " Tomografie

radiofoniche" for RadioUno and 12 episodes of the radio drama "Nel cuore delle tenebre"

of which he directed.

With Letizia Bolognesi and Francesco Michi he realizes 8 episodes on the subject of the

soundscape for "Orion" by RadioTre and an interview with R. Murray Shaefer. He is

member of the Forum fur Klanglandschaft (FKL) - forum for the soundscape, an

offshoot of the European World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

Francesco Michi and Mechi Cena resume a close cooperation since 2005. In the field of

radio, for ReteDue CSR, they hosts two sets of the program "L’Essere Rumoroso". Then

they write and produce 180 episodes of "Suonetti", short transmission on the theme of

listening aesthetic of everyday sounds (2011-2012).

Both have begun to realize sound installations, participating in seminars, conferences

and giving lectures. In particular, they worked on the "site specific" sound installation

"Composizione Silenziosa” that was carried out on three occasions: at the EX3 gallery in

Florence, at the Museum "Casa Masaccio" in San Giovanni Valdarno and in Ljubljana as

part of the International Computer Music Conference 2012.