Anteo Fabris: ENVIRONMENTS OF BLISS
“To me a work is fully realized once my mind and body respond with nothing but a pure, primordial, organismic feeling of attraction.”
Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Missoula Public Library
Composer, Anteo Fabris, in his natural habitat.
What role does place play in your work, especially during your time at Open AIR.
Travel represents freedom to me. I enjoy anonymity. I dream repeatedly about environments of bliss — quiet places within biophilic architecture where diffused sunlight reaches my eyes in the perfect brightness and there are gentle breezes. I bike at night in cities. Bodies of water have given my music formal structure. A herd of bison live in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. I’m not quite sure what I mean by this. I’d like to “play” the earth.
Anteo testing a feature of his upcoming work Ecstatic Travel In Search of the Real Beat - Part III: Pictosonographonography
Describe your Open AIR Residency experience.
I stayed for a month in April working out of the Missoula Public Library. My residency was focused on developing a visual language to accompany the music and sound I have been creating. I produced graphic scores as well as a group of instruments — the “Resultant Tone Flute Consort” — that I 3D-printed at the MPL Makerspace.
Along with finding out more about my aesthetic preferences from a visual perspective, I was moved by the importance of the library to the community. I was inspired to consider my own work as a public service.
The Resultant Tone Flute Consort, designed and printed at the MPL Makerspace
Light fixtures inside the Missoula Public Library that inspired the Resultant Tone Flute Consort
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
I am pursuing the discovery, documentation and organization of sonic nonfiction, a style in which creation has become the uncovering of art inherent in what can be observed. I like to call it the “music of fact,” and I utilize the real world — statistics, physics, nature, social phenomena — to search for the beauty beyond cultural bias, beyond expectations, and beyond any ascertainable purpose. To me a work is fully realized once my mind and body respond with nothing but a pure, primordial, organismic feeling of attraction.
First movement from Anteo’s piece Diffusions: (88! * 88)! * 88 for two pianos.
What are you currently listening to?
I am currently listening through a vinyl collection I’ve amassed traveling through Europe, South America and the United States. Gato Barbieri has been making a lot of repeated appearances on my turntable.
In progress data transformation from a drawing to musical material in Missoula, MT.
Inside the Missoula Public Library at night.
Watch this short video of Anteo while in residence!
Anteo in the Missoula Public Library MakerSpace.
See Anteo’s Artist Talk!
