Description
Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.
*Don Giovanni* is one of the archetypes of our culture, one of its founding myths. And myth is not an inert fable but an active, creative force, it nourishes, in a surprisingly circular way, the very culture that gave it life.
Over the course of four centuries, Don Giovanni has taken on - or disguised himself in - countless and extraordinarily varied forms.
With this audiovisual project, we seek to explore the recurring and often mutable archetype concealed beneath Mozart’s masterpiece, creating a performance that draws on a contemporary aesthetic and language. Mozart’s music itself undergoes metamorphosis, electronic, sampled and manipulated, from old vinyl records to acoustic renditions, serving as the foundation for literary “evocations” of Don Giovanni, from Tirso de Molina to José Saramago, from Molière to Baudelaire, Hoffmann,