Album Release - November 2010
The Small Sea and The Great Ocean
-Christian Fennesz (Romaeuropa Webfactory 2010) - electronic samples
-Gianni Pavan / CIBRA, University of Pavia, Italy - ocean noise samples
-Alessio Ballerini - Acoustic guitar and sound processing
Noir
-Alessio Ballerini - piano and sound processing
Blanc
-Alessio Ballerini - piano processing
Lociverba3
-Canenero - programming
-Alessio Ballerini - mixing
Everything else
-Alessio Ballerini - piano
netlabel zymogen.net
“Blanc” is a concept album that does not represent opposing views, but dissimilar ones. Downloadable from Zymogen the release is also accompanied by 2 videos and 15 drawings. The two videos were created via animation of the
drawings. They describe two possible perspectives that do not bode well for the future of our planet. Between 2000 and 2008, the ice sheet of Greenland lost 1.5 trillion tons of ice, causing a yearly average rise of 0.46 mm in the ocean
levels. Science Magazine states that the ocean's current growth rate is 0.75 mm per year. The complete dissolution of the ice sheet will result in a rise of 7 metres in the ocean levels. Despite the varying perspectives regarding this
issue, there is a common thread of hope among global citizens, without which such loss would be inconceivable.
“Blanc & Noir” is also an installation that shows the process of the work's formation, as well as that of the drawings and the videos derived from it. The installation is designed to be expanded beyond the context of the gallery and the limitations imposed by it. Rather, it is hoped that the work will come to life in the homes and dwellings of those who take the drawings. Furthermore, the installation is a site-specific work that changes significance in situ, since the drawings constitute the work yet remain unfinished. The exhibition space is filled by a screen where the two videos are played in loop. The drawings, which each visitor can take, are placed below it. The work, as it
is presented in the installation format has been selected by the Quattrocentometriquadri gallery, and is among the six finalists for the Metrocubo contest. The exhibition has been presented on Sunday 21st November 2010 at 11 am at the gallery in Via Magenta 15, Ancona, Italy.
