Cally Spooner

Dead Time (Melody's Warm Up), 2022

Cello tone by Melody Giron; recording by Jesse Lewis at Immersive Music Project, Boston; mixing by Federico Chiari; composition by Cally Spooner.
43 min 59 sec

This episode of Dead Time, a series of works begun in 2018, was conceived for the ramp that ran from the assembly lines of the Fiat factory in Turin to the rooftop test track. The architecture, a resonance chamber, brings the sounds of the site into the sound piece. Cellist Melody Giron performs pre-concert tonalization exercises, starting with the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G. Over and over again, without ever completing the piece. It's the preparation, not the concert, that makes the event. A beep sounds at regular intervals, alluding to the confusion between free time and productive time. At Chandoline, the piece is broadcast throughout the power station.

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Cally Spooner

Born in 1983
Based in Turin

Trained in dance, theater, and philosophy, Cally Spooner develops a transdisciplinary body of work that blends performance, multimedia installations, writing, and film. Her work interrogates the mechanisms of language, power, and emotion in a world saturated by technologies and production logics. She often uses formats such as repetition, staged work, and slowed-down temporality to reveal the tensions between bodies, discourses, and institutions.