Closing the season listening to the cosmos at the Arsenale of Pisa, with the project Sounds in space, proposed for Il Giardino del video by Ondavideo. A two-day programme on the relationship between cinema, music and science (9 and 10 June) with afternoon meetings between musicians, musicologists, sci-fi film experts and scientists and a selection of listening sessions and videos; in the evening screenings in the historic room of the Cineclub and in the new space Sammartino.
For "Il giardino del video" 2025, Ondavideo proposes a meeting with one of the world’s leading experts on sound-image relations, the Frenchman Michel Chion, author of many books on cinema, sound and music, and of the recent book Sounds in space. Listening to the space opera, released in Italy by Cue Press in 2024. Chion’s overview of the sound of space in sci-fi films and the problems it raises become an opportunity for dialogue and multidisciplinary discussion on a theme, the sound of the cosmos, which has generated imaginaries and inspired the arts, and which has been explored by science. Fascinating intersections.
On the two afternoons, at 18.00, dialogues with musicians, musicologists, science fiction film experts, scientists; selection of audiences and videos. In the evenings, video and film screenings.
Monday 9 June 2025, 6.00 pm: Sounds in space
Michel Chion, author of the book Sounds in space. Listening to the space film opera, Cue Press, Imola 2024, in dialogue with scholars of cinema, science fiction and music.
Participants: Alessandro Cecchi (music teacher for film), Manfred Giampietro (composer and conductor Unipi), Fabio Gadducci (director of the Museum of calculation tools and expert in science fiction cinema).
At 9.30 pm: screening of the video The Planets by Holst, a production by Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, INAF and VIS, 2003, 49'
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6.00 pm: The sound of the cosmos: music and scientific imagery
Michel Chion in dialogue with scientists and musicologists. Selection of listening and visions.
Participants: Vincenzo Napolano (European Gravity Observatory Ego-Virgo, Pisa), Claudio Proietti (musician and musicologist), Matias Guerra (VIS-Virtual Immersion in Science)
9 p.m., sala Arsenale: projection of 2001 Odyssey in space, by Stanley Kubrick, 1968, restored and in original language with ST . Introduce Mirko Tavosanis, Dip. of Philology, literature and linguistics Unipi (admission with ticket). Il Giardino del video is an Ondavideo project supported by Fondazione Pisa and the Comune di Pisa, with the support of the Arsenale film club. The days of 9 and 10 see the participation of Sistema Museale di Ateneo, Museo degli strumenti del Calcolo Unipi, Museo degli strumenti di Fisica Unipi, OPV-Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, VIS-Virtual Immersion in Science, EGO-Virgo, Department of Civilization and forms of knowledge, Department of Philology, Literature and linguistics.
The events are free to attend. Admission with a ticket for 2001: Space Odyssey.
Il Giardino del video is an Ondavideo project supported by Fondazione Pisa and the Comune di Pisa, with the support of the Arsenale film club. The days of 9 and 10 see the participation of Sistema Museale di Ateneo, Museo degli strumenti del Calcolo Unipi, Museo degli strumenti di Fisica Unipi, OPV-Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, VIS-Virtual Immersion in Science, EGO-Virgo, Department of Civilization and forms of knowledge, Department of Philology, Literature and linguistics.
