Daniela Cascella
My first three books in English – listed below – articulate various points of tension and of contact between the literary and the sonic.
In parallel with my ongoing Ph.D. research in the Department of Art and Design at Sheffield Hallam University (supervisory team: Dr. Sharon Kivland, Penny McCarthy, Dr. Alice Bell) I have been developing two book-length projects – as yet unpublished – in which, through encounters with the prose of Alejandra Pizarnik, Cristina Campo, Roberto Calasso, the idea of 'chimeric writing' is practised and theorised: a composite, impure form of critical writing in the lineage of the Menippean satire and the Dialogues of the Dead, shaped by conversations with literature not translated in English; by the polyphonies, artifices and concealments of a bilingual self; by the sense of speechlessness and haunting when writing of works that cannot be instantly quoted.
- Singed. Muted Voice-Transmissions, After The Fire
November 2017
Equus Press, London
Singed articulates a language in trance-lation across different states of speechlessness. A fire, and the effort to remember a lost song, open into a meditation on the transmission of knowledge. The space of writing appears as a material engagement with language which points at its excess; at the ephemeral and the untold which continue to puzzle and enchant, and prompt more writing.
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/singed/ - F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound
April 2015
Zer0 Books, London
F.M.R.L. is a collection of short texts, fragments and deranged essays. It claims the complexity and intermittent incoherence in listening and reading, and works with their residual aspects addressing canons, issues of authenticity and fabulation, degrees of opacity and transparency across languages and cultures.
www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/f-m-r-l - En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction
September 2012
Zer0 Books, London
In En Abîme, listening and reading operate as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. The book introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience and adopts listening as an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature
www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/en-abme-listening-reading-writing-an-archival-fiction
With time I have begun to see the three books as chapters of one book, as manifested in this performative reading I did in 2018 at LCC / University of the Arts London:
https://replay.arts.ac.uk/video/5ada02493362d964328b456d
- The Edge of the World
2008
Arcana Edizioni, Rome, Italy
A commentary on the song lyrics by Robert Smith, drawing on literature, poetry, art and cultural studies.
Written in Italian - Scultori di suono (Sculptors of Sound)
2005, reprinted in November 2008
Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy
A survey of recent developments in experimental music and its intersections with the visual arts.
Written in Italian