Love Me Radically is an improvisational solo performance for a DIY-prepared multichannel sound system. It is an autobiographical reflection on emotional addictions: affective traps resulting from deep-seated imbalances, gaps that we attempt to fill by seeking in another person what we are looking for in ourselves. Love Me Radically is the backlash of an individual raised on instability who, once rediscovered affection, became addicted to it. It is a search for a collective, radical and unfulfillable embrace.
Alessandro Gambato, born in 1997, is a performer, composer and sound designer based in Bologna. He was trained at SAE Institute Milan, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Audio Production and a specialisation in Sound Design for Performing Arts. He graduated in Electroacoustic Music Composition in 2024 at the Conservatoire C. Pollini of Padua and is attending the master's course in Electroacoustic Improvisation at the G. Martini Conservatoire of Bologna. He has exhibited and performed a lot, for example, at the Guggenheim Museum, Venice, and the Berlin Short Film Festival.
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Ljubi me radikalno je improvizacijski solo nastop s prepariranim večkanalnim zvočnim sistemom. Gre za avtobiografsko razmišljanje o čustvenih odvisnostih, čustvenih pasteh, ki so posledica globoko zasidranih neravnovesij, vrzeli, ki jih skušamo zapolniti tako, da v drugi osebi iščemo tisto, kar iščemo v sebi. Ljubi me radikalno je odziv posameznika, odraslega v občutku nestabilnosti, ki, ko znova odkrije ljubezen, postane z njo zasvojen. Je iskanje kolektivnega, radikalnega, a neuresničljivega objema.
Alessandro Gambato, rojen leta 1997, je performer, skladatelj in oblikovalec zvoka. Živi v Bologni. Usposabljal se je na Inštitutu SAE v Milanu, diplomiral iz avdio produkcije in specializiral iz oblikovanja zvoka za performativne umetnosti. Leta 2024 je diplomiral tudi iz elektroakustične glasbene kompozicije na Konservatoriju C. Pollini v Padovi, sedaj pa obiskuje magistrski študij elektroakustične improvizacije na Konservatoriju G. Martini v Bologni. Veliko je razstavljal in nastopal, denimo v Muzeju Guggenheim v Benetkah ali na Festivalu kratkega filma v Berlinu.