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Sarà la spiaggia in faccia all'Onda,
opera d’arte di Albisola Capo
realizzata da Luzzati, Caminati e
Carlè (sopra), a ospitare il concerto
della banda di Terracotta
Nell’altra pagina, gli insoliti
strumenti musicali di ceramica e il
lavoro del ceramista Marco Tortarolo
The Terracotta Band with Caminati
and Carlè (shown above) will be
playing on the beach at Albisola
Capo near Luzzati’s famous art piece,
“The Wave”.
In the other page, Marco Tortarolo’s
unusual ceramic instruments
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playing, are made of clay. Together
with Marco Tortarolo, a potter from
Albisola, and Giuseppe Camogli, a
Middle School art teacher—who
calls himself an “alchemist of the
earths”, the three musicians have
made a “Terracotta Band” to show
off the materials at the center of
their performance.
It will be an absolute premier
(though they did try the
instruments out in the silence of a
night in the countryside around
Asti last summer), and the
centerpiece of a “marriage”
between ceramics and music which
the town of Albisola is proposing
on two other dates as well, July 12
and 26. Only a guitar and a
minimum of electric amplification
will be their concession to
modernity. Their music from
ceramics is modeled on the ethnic
instruments made of alternative
materials that Conte has discovered
on his voyages across the world
from India to Africa and South
America. Giuseppe Camogli came
up with the idea a few years ago.
He began experimenting with his
middle school students in Albisola
fatto sperimentare ai suoi studenti
della scuola media di Albissola
è quella di provare a creare
strumenti musicali lavorando le
terre trovate nel circondario, lungo
la valle del Sansobbia che risale
nell’entroterra fino alle pendici
del monte Beigua e che
nell’antichità era sommersa. L’insegnante
aveva scoperto che i sedimenti
derivati dalle rocce un
tempo sott’acqua hanno una
plasticità speciale: «Una volta
sfaldate, bagnate, filtrate e setacciate
– spiega Camogli – danno
delle terre che nel forno a 900
gradi sono più dure e vetrose degli
altri tipi di argilla e garantiscono
suoni più puliti e più puri. La
terra che si trova ad Albisola è
meravigliosa: leggera, molto porosa,
si impregna bene di vernici e
maiolica. E, soprattutto, suona». A
scuola con i ragazzi si divertì a
realizzare strumenti a percussione
come campane tubolari e xilofoni,
a fiato come flauti diritti,
ocarine e fischietti. E i bastoni
della pioggia che, scossi, regalano
suoni particolarissimi (top secret
cosa contengano all’interno).
in the creation of various musical
instruments by using various types
of earth found in the surrounding
area. They went up the Valley of the
Sansobbia—from the coast all the
way to the Apennine slopes of
Monte Beigua—which in ancient
times was under the sea. The
teacher had discovered that
sediments from the rock that had
once been under water had a
special plasticity. “Once it was
kneaded, wet, filtered, and
strained”, explains Camogli, “it
made a clay which, when fired at
900 degrees, was harder and more
glazed than others. This guarantees
a sound which is cleaner and more
pure. The clay of Albisola is just
marvelous—it is light, very porous,
absorbs enamels and majolica well,
and above all, it makes music.” At
the Middle School, his students
have fun making percussion
instruments like tubular bells and
xylophones, wind-blowing
instruments like flutes and whistles,
and rain sticks that, when shaken,
make odd sounds (the contents are
top secret).
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