Paolo [ pax~ ] Calzavara
Paolo [ pax~ ] Calzavara
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Paolo [pax~] Calzavara

Sound Artist

Paolo Calzavara – [ pax ~ ] sound artist, improviser, free-lance researcher and musical educator, acts in several areas of music and performing arts. He prefers the use of live electronics, field recording and electro-acoustic instruments obtained by hacking old audio equipment. In recent years, he has been very interested in handmade synthesizers and effects.

Self-taught musician, since the 90’s he has studied, play ed and collaborated whit musicians such as Barre Phillips, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Lacy, Gyorgy Kurtag Jr, Amy Denio, Jessica Lurie, Elliot Sharp, Roberto Dani, Alessandro Bosetti, Yannis Kyriakides, Nicolas Collins.
He is one of the founders of Fête Foreign (2004), a collective created and directed by Barre Phillips. Since 2016 he has been a member of CEPI (Centre Européen pour l’Improvisation) and the Italian group of FKL – Forum Klanglandschaft.

He writes and performs live music for contemporary dance, theater and audio-video live acts and installations.
He is sound designer and composer of Garten, a research group in the field of performing arts from Milan, and he has frequent collaborations with Sandra Mangini, a theater director from Venice.
Since 2007 collaborates with Manuel Frara (Interno 3) in audio-video live acts; in 2010 founded the Nautilus Duo with Mirko Busatto and in 2014 with Laura Copiello debuts in the duo Wunderkammer.

He has participated in numerous international music and theater festivals and contemporary art events.

He currently lives between Basel and Venice.

> Selected publications

• Nautilus Duo (P. Calzavara, M. Busatto) “Tales of the flying whale” CD (Setola di Maiale, 2012);
• “Un di ritorneremo” CD (ApArte, december 2013)

> Selected installations:

• “NoFi-set#01” sound for “Pleasure Presence” a video installation of Interno3 at: – DIVA Art Fair, New York – (USA) 2007; – V07 Video Art Fair – Venice (I) 2007; – Hannah Maclure Centre – University of Abertay Dundee (UK) 2014;
• “Soundscape pool” audio installation at ART STAYS 2010 8th International Festival of Contemporary Art Ptuj (SLO) – 2010.

> Selected concerts, festival and events:

• 15° Angelica Festival Internazionale di Musica, Bologna (I) – 2005;
• Festival des Musiques Insolentes – Puget-Ville (F) – 2006;
• From the concrete music to the object sound – european festival of live media – Venezia (I) – 2007;
• Soundscape Train Festival in the thirty-year John Cage train – Lecco – 2008;
• “Untitled…” Installation + performance and “Breath and lead” live media collateral events at 53° Biennale Arte di Venezia, Venezia (I) – 2009;
• “Fluxes” live media -at Festival of Performing Arts Pola (HR) – 2009;.
• “Fluxes” live media – ART STAYS 2010 8th International Festival of Contemporary Art Ptuj (SLO) – 2010;
• with Garten, 30° and 31° festival centrale di Fies, Drodesera – Dro (I) – 2010 2011;
• Menglong, solo at collateral event at 54° Biennale Arte di Venezia, Venezia (I) – 2011;
• “21” performance, collateral event at 13° Biennale dell’Architettura Venezia (I) – 2012;
• “I am here, I have a gun” with Garten, Festival Apache and Danae festival Milano (I) 2014;
• CEPI Euro-Encounter 2016 France/Italy, Puget-Ville (F) 2016;
• “Wild M” with Garten, Festival Apache – Teatro Litta Milano (IT) 2017;
• “Variation mix – studio#1” solo performance at Klappfon, Basel (CH) 2018;
• “Frühling zuhause”, Beyond the Silence – Chigiana International Festival (IT) 2020
• CEPI Euro-Encounter 2022, Esino-Lario (IT) 2022;
• “Almost without luggage” solo performance at Klappfon, Basel (CH) 2022;

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