Audiografie, sound transcriptions

Artworks that combine with innovation to make sounds visible and preserve their memory

 

Audiografia is a sound transcription. Since 1995 I have been looking for a new way of representing the sounds of the world, of making them visible. Especially the seemingly most insignificant ones, or those that represent a reality that no one thinks could exist, but which actually exists, we just don't realize it. Think about the sound of a tree, or an insect, my coffee maker in the morning, the engine of my car, wind, or even human voices, and therefore singing, music.

My question was: but how can we represent sound in a legible form, but at the same time as faithful to reality as possible? The pentagram couldn't help me, it wasn't precise enough. So I started to break the classical mold to look for a path and I started to study and compose music, trying to write musical performances, inventing new languages ​​and experimenting with collaborations even in the Academy of Fine Arts.

After years of research, dead duck, second thoughts and frustrations, my research resulted in an industrial invention patent filed in 2018: a method for transcribing sequences of sounds in textual form with a maximum accuracy of durations of 7 thousandths of a second. In practice, real audio photographs of a precise and unrepeatable historical moment.

From that moment on, everything that seemed invisible has taken shape and can be studied and read. Not to mention the musical performances, philological snapshots so far only listenable, and finally visible and readable.

I wish you to find a bit of yourself in my artworks, a bit of your inner world, and I ask you to bring a bit of my soul with you. Because art unites humanity in an indissoluble way.

Glauco Leo