Artist
Arrigo Lora-Totino
Arrigo Lora-Totino is an Italian experimental artist known for his unique sound poetry and vocal manipulation techniques.
About
Arrigo Lora-Totino, a maestro of the Italian avant-garde, sculpted sound and text into fractal architectures of meaning and sensation. His work traverses the liminal space where language dissolves into pure resonance. "Trio Prosodico," released across multiple formats like tape and reel through Edition S Press, stands as a cornerstone in sound poetry. This piece, a process-driven exploration of prosody, reveals the sculptural possibilities of vocal manipulation. With "Fonemi" on Alga Marghen, Lora-Totino's experiments with tape manipulation and poetic performance break open the textual into acoustic phenomena, each phoneme a world unto itself. His interdisciplinary approach, often involving collaboration with labels such as Holidays Records and S Press Tonbandverlag, extends into visual poetry, where the page becomes a landscape for textual improvisation. The release of "Il Theatro della Parola" on VHS marks his foray into video, further blurring the boundaries between spoken word and visual art. Despite sparse documentation, his legacy is significant, resonating through the interconnected networks of experimental sound and poetic expression.
