Leopoldo Siano (born August 12, 1982) is a philosopher of music and shareholder of sound. After having completed his philosophical-musical studies between Italy (Rome, Cremona) and Germany, in 2009 he settled in Cologne where in 2012 he finished his doctoral thesis on the last compositional cycle of Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klang. Die 24 Stunden de Tages (Sound. The 24 hours of the day). This work was published in 2013 by the Viennese publisher Der Apfel and is winner of the prestigious Offermann-Hergarten prize. Since 2012 he has taught history of music at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cologne (in the same Musicological Institute where Marius Schneider, his great inspirer, taught between the fifties and seventies); here he is also co-organizer of the Raum-Musik acousmatic concert series.
Shushan Hyusnunts (born in Yerevan on February 3, 1989) is a musicologist and sound shareholder. At the end of her musicological and piano studies at the Conservatory of her hometown Yerevan (Armenia) in 2012 she moved to Germany. In 2016 she graduated (Master of Arts) from the University of Cologne with a thesis on the philosophy of sound in the orchestral works of Giacinto Scelsi. At the same university you have taught courses on traditional Armenian music, on Dmitri Shostakovich and Horatiu Radulescu. You are writing your doctoral thesis on the musical poetics of the latter. Participation in international conferences. In recent years you have worked mainly with Leopoldo Siano on the design and construction of the theatrum phonosophicum. She is also currently working on a documentary book on the cultural memory of the famous composers' village of Dilijan (Armenia).
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Response to the question:
“THE ANDROGYNOUS”
A sound event that evokes memories, from a very distant past as well as from a remote future… The archaic present.
What connects us, is the remembering of the Origin – of the continuum, whom we belong. Remembering is recognize the archetypes of reality. “Life is real only then, when I am” (Georges I. Gurdjieff).
The sound of the “Androgynous“ (reconciliation of the opposites) dissolves in the primordial waters. Also the future has to be remembered.
theatrum phonosophicum (Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts)