TUONAVANO by Patrizia Vicinelli

The album contains several and unpublished performances by Vicinelli and tries to return all the vocal grades and timbric spectrum of her practice. The performative overstatement of the meaning alternates with purely phonetic aspects of poetry. The side B of the LP ends with an unpublished moving audio recording of Vicinelli who, almost sleeping, tells about a dream she dreamt to director Alberto Grifi, her partner at the time.

Patrizia Vicinelli is a pivotal figure in concrete poetry and performance of the avant-garde Italian scene. In 1966, she attended a conference held in La Spezia by the avant-garde literary group Gruppo 63 and was later invited to become a member. She contributed to literary magazines such as “Alfabeta, Doc(k)s, Marcatré, Ex and Quindici”. Her work in experimental theatre and contemporary music brought her to collaborate with poets and writers such as Emilio Villa, Adriano Spatola and Franco Beltrametti. She also performed in films such as In “viaggio con Patrizia” (1965) and “Virulentia” (1967) by Alberto Grifi, “La Notte e il giorno” by Gianni Castagnoli (1967) and “Amore Tossico” by Claudio Caligari (1983).