Exhibition: “Western Simulacrum” @ Galleria comunale d’arte di Faenza

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“Western Simulacrum” by Emanuele Mengotti, audio installation by Enrico Coniglio @ Galleria d’arte Comunale di Faenza, Voltone della Molinella

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“Western Simulacrum” was born from the need to cross through the mirage — to understand how an image can become flesh, how a dream can turn into destiny.

The exhibition explores the West as a mental construction before being a geographical one.
It begins with an inherited memory: the West imagined by a father who never saw it and recounted it to his son, evolving through Polaroids taken in the most marginal and authentic corners of America by the artist himself. These images enter into dialogue with a selection of original postcards from the last century, featuring handwritten texts whose words feel more timely than ever today. The exhibition weaves together family intimacy, myth-making, national ideology, and what America still dares to dream of itself.

It is not an exhibition about the West, but about the desire for the West — about what remains when the myth falters yet keeps stubbornly beating. Between apparition and disorientation, a wounded symbol reemerges — the trace of a revelation that touches both personal memory and the American present.

LIVE SET: Aree a margine @ Ground social forum, 27/09/2025, 6 pm

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“Aree a Margine” vuole portare all’attenzione l’importanza del paesaggio sonoro come traccia vivente delle trasformazioni urbane e territoriali.

La performance invita il pubblico a un ascolto attivo, esplorando i suoni di luoghi spesso ignorati ma carichi di memoria, tensione e possibilità.

Con Alessandro Ragazzo & Nicola Di Croce.

Villa Angaran San Giuseppe Via Cà Morosini, 41, 36061 Bassano del Grappa VI, Italia.

New Research Assignment: Soundscape Mapping of Mount Olympus, Greece (July 2025)

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I am pleased to announce my involvement in a research activity focused on the musical exploration and soundscape mapping of Mount Olympus, Greece. This work was conducted during a residency from July 1st to 7th as part of the “A.P.S.E.” project (Erasmus+ n. 2024-1-IT03-KA210-YOU-000257244), commissioned by APSE.

The research aimed to investigate and document the unique acoustic environment of this culturally and ecologically significant area, contributing to a deeper understanding of its sonic identity within the broader context of soundscape studies in Southern Europe.

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LIVE SET: Enrico Coniglio+Giulio Aldinucci – Mystica electronica @ Chiesa di San Vincenzo (VI)

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Giulio Aldinucci will present “two unreleased compositions based on the idea of sound as a material, moldable into complex forms by removing excess elements from the sonic mass. These two pieces are part of an album—currently in progress—that stems from a reflection on the dichotomy between accumulation and subtraction. This process led me to compose starting from audio material dense with frequencies, aiming to reveal what is ‘hidden’ within the raw sonic mass. Unlike sculpture, in music, time can also be a material, as sounds are shattered into milliseconds and recomposed with a different arrangement of fragments, transcending traditional notions of rhythm and duration.

Enrico Coniglio invites the audience to an “immersive journey that explores the invisible connections between nature and sacred spaces. The work he presents employs the sound layering technique known as the time-lag accumulator, where individual sounds are repeated using delays with variable time intervals, resulting in a staggered effect. This process creates complex and asynchronous orchestrations in constant evolution. After more than twenty years of sound exploration, Coniglio returns to the guitar, creating free improvisations based on loops and deep reverberations.

For further infos see at https://www.eventialmonte.it

OUT NOW: “adagissimo venexiano” – Enrico Coniglio – CD-r/DL – (ta​â​lem advent calendar 2024 – day 24)

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Happy to share this work specially conceived for ta​â​lem advent calendar 2024.

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Slow-evolving music, nostalgic retro pads, and moody textures transport the listener in a shades of blue landscape of Venice. After many albums released over the last 20 years, Enrico Coniglio is returning to the origins, focusing mainly on loop based improvisations, played live-in-studio with no other instruments but Roland’s guitar-synths and swirly reverbs. “adagissimo venexiano” (where adagissimo in music means a ‘very slow and solemn tempo’) pays personal homage to the “soundscape compositions” of Mr. R. Fripp, from the 1990s.

OUT NOW: “Hydor” – UP to 23 w/ Enrico Coniglio CD/DL – Silentes 2024

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I’m really happy to announce the release of “Hydor” by the duo Up to 23. I was invited about a year ago to collaborate with them on a couple of tracks, and this is the result.

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Up To 23 is an electronic music duo formed by Marco Buffetti and Francesco Fincato.

“Hydor LP” is a sonic journey diving into the ever-changing nature of water. From vast seascapes to the depths of the underwater world, the album aims to capture the power and tranquility of this elemental force, shifting between dark tones, ethereal visions and cinematic moods.

The last two tracks feature a collaboration with Enrico Coniglio, whose guitar parts lay a foundation for fluid and hypnotic soundscapes. Immerse yourself in an enveloping experience, where sound becomes a current and time seems to dissolve.

Purchase here.