Tony Di Napoli | A Litophone Concert
Tony Di Napoli uses stones to make music – both random stones of unspecified origins that give out accidental sounds, and stones that he carefully selects, processes in a sculptural way and tunes to build his own litophones. Di Napoli’s passion is to create one of the oldest musical instruments made of limestone blocks that have lain dormant for more than 300 million years. The litophone comprises stone stabs of slightly varying shapes and sizes, a quality that diversifies their tones and turns the litophone into a proper microtonal instrument. Thus, Di Napoli broadens our idea of the sounds that stones can make. Paradoxically enough, the artist gravitates closer to contemporary electronic music than to ethnic music, even in the broadest understanding of the term.
Tony Di Napoli was trained as a sculptor. Nowadays, the artist concentrates only on making his sculptures resonate with sound; it is easier to come across his name in the context of sound art than in sculpture. After studies in Liège, Di Napoli travelled extensively, for instance to Patan in Nepal and Pietrasanta in Italy, where he explored in-depth the secrets of turning stones into musical instruments. For more than a decade, the artist has created sound sculptures and improvised stage performances with musicians from the instrumental and electronic music scenes. One of his earliest projects is a duo with the outstanding French drummer Le Quan Ninh. Di Napoli’s litophone samples appear in the sound essay “Bildung”, which forms part of the exhibition “The Estate” at the Królikarnia Palace.
The discussion accompanies the exhibition “The Estate. Sculptures from the Collection of von Rose Family with Films and Photographs from the Archives of Zofia Chomętowska”
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