Notes for Use: SUOLO is intended for use by anyone. The audio file is available to download above and the score here.The contours can be interpreted as pitches (as described in the score) but also as amplitudes; one can perform SUOLO in public, at home; on an instrument, on a table top, on a pan, with clapping hands, with stomping feet, snapping fingers. One can interpret these contours through a wail, a vocalization, an utterance.
SUOLO: A New Travel Literature was originally conceived as an electronic instrument ("the soil organ") and installation first at Nature, Art, and Habitat Residency (NAHR) in Sottochiesa, Italy (2022) and second, as part of Grand Tour, Clare's recent solo exhibition at Friedli Gallery in St. Paul, MN (2023). More about each of these projects can be found here.
Clare Harmon (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and translator currently based in Ischia, Italy. Clare is presently working on several projects: a book of prose poems about grief, catastrophe, and maritime culture in southern Italy; an erasure-translation of a censored copy of a 1481 edition of Cristoforo Landino's Comento sopra la Divina Commedia di Dante housed in the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli; and with their long-time collaborator, Javier Zamora Valdes, Puede Ser/No Pudo Ser, a visual grammar for decolonial praxis. Clare's recent work can be found in Poetry and Fence.
