“Grande Estasi” ( Great Ecstacy) is an audio “cover version” of a cult sports documentary: “Die Grosse Extase des Bildschnitzer Steiner” by Werner Herzog. This is a movie from the early 70’s that examines Walter Steiner, an unusual Swiss ski jumping champion.
In the past, we have used other artists’ works as material to experiment with: in 2001 for the film “Presente Continuo”, we deconstructed David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” scene by scene, in order to spatialize the entire movie in a single moving picture.
For this new work, we moved the narration of Herzog’s film from the visual to the sonic level.
We have always thought that if we block the primary sense, sight, we increase the ability to create mental images. Listening in darkness, we enter an “inner cinema” in which images are projected straight into the spectator’s mind.
The result of this process, applied on Herzog’s movie, is an audio-film in which the voices of the characters are combined with  the electicity of the guitars and field recordings, and whereby this mélange gives birth to a hypnotic and dense sonic tale.

concept  ZimmerFrei
sound design  Massimo Carozzi
editing  Anna de Manincor, Massimo Carozzi

music

analog synthesizers  Massimo Carozzi
electric guitar  Stefano Pilia
feedback  Jukka Reverberi GdM
voices Emidio Clementi (Herzog) Andreas Pichler (Steiner)
produced, recorded and mixed in Bologna, ZimmerFrei studio, January 2006 by Massimo Carozzi
format  dvd-r
audio format   5.1 dolby surround/stereo

group show:

february  11th – january 26th 2006
Echoes from the mountains- XX Winter Olympic Games
Sansicario, Torino, Italy
curated by Ombretta Agrò

audio projections:

January 23 2008
Modo Infoshop – Bologna

October 24 2008
Freequency/Festival della Creatività
Fortezza da Basso, Firenze