Benedetta Manfriani / CONfusion
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CONfusion

CONfusion

2016

Work in progress.

Vocal ensemble conceived and conducted by Benedetta Manfriani as a project of inclusion of immigrants and refugees, targeted at people of every age, nationality and skill.

It is a laboratory and a space of cultural permeation of different musical and artistic genres, in which the language of music and the connection with the audience are constantly evolving. In five years time of activity about 100 people from Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Camerun, Senegal, Cogo, Togo, Mali, Guinea, Yemen, Ivory Coast, Armenia, Pakistan, Syria, France, Germany, USA, UK, Netherlands, together with locals, have been participating to the choir’s activities.

CONfusion has pursued an important action of raising awareness through concerts and performances in theatres, parks, woods, rehearsals open to the public, flash-mobs in the streets and on public transports.

Major events:

2021- Virtual choir video Bring me little water Sylvie;

2020- Recording of the song “Ring of Fire” for the cd IN/OUT with the prisoners in the florentine Prison of Sollicciano;

2020-The virtual choir video “CONfusion Hello Django”made during the lockdown for the pandemic,

was exhibited from May to November 2020 at RAC Rochester Art Center (MN, USA) during “Creative Confinement Exhibition-Art under Quarantine”;

2020 Concert in the March of Barbiana;

2019 Performance “Togli il tuo piede dalle nostre gole, MAD Murate Art District, Firenze”;

2019 Festival Walkabout/Migrazioni Sonore during the Estate Fiorentina 2019, Firenze;

2019 Participation in the Pavel Zalov Quartet concert directed by Enrico Fink, for the Holocaust Memorial Day at Teatro Corsini di Barberino;

2018, Performance by Yuval Avital, Notte Bianca #24 ACCENTS, ACCENTI, АКЦЕНТЫ , Museo Mario Marini, Firenze

2018, Performance by Yuval Avital, RIVA Project, Ex-cinema Ristori, Montelupo Fiorentino;

2017 Performance, Sound&Bike, Tempo Reale Festival, Firenze

2017 Première of the original score “Lontano da dove” by Daniela Fantechi, Festival Migrarti, Teatro Puccini, Firenze

2017 Making of a docufilm about CONfusion.

http://www.confusion-migrazionisonore.it/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChTK2Cw0vhuIBs3W8xkopIQ/

https://temporeale.it/news/in-out-il-nuovo-disco-dellorkestra-ristretta/

Info
Category:

Music

Date:

15th June 2018