Michele Spanghero

Michele Spanghero’s audio and visual works combine conceptual research with a transversal method and an essential aesthetic.

The sound installation Listening Is Making Sense uses wooden beams as vectors for the propagation of sound vibrations diffused through the wood by tactile transducers (loudspeakers that convert the audio signal into mechanical vibration). The sound passes by contact through the beams and changes its frequencies according to the different properties of filtering and absorption of the sound waves by the wood. The sculpture is apparently silent, and the only way to listen to the vibrations is to get into physical contact with the resonant matter by placing the ear straight onto the wood.

Michele Spanghero (1979, Gorizia) has attended workshops on electronic and improvised music, sound design and video making. He has exhibited and performed at museums, galleries, clubs and festivals across Europe and in Turkey, Egypt, China and the USA. His records have been released for several labels such as headphonica, Palomar Records, Gruenrekorder and MiraLoop.