Artist's Studio

On Wednesday morning we visited the home\studio space of Johannes Dimpflmeier, a local artist whose work is mindblowing. Johannes is a painter, a sculptor, a musician and an electronics\robotics expert. He lives on the top of a hill in a very isolated part of Tuscania that is surrounded by farmland. Besides the fact that he has two talking robots in his studio that he built from discarded metal, old gasoline tanks and other scraps, he also built his own synthesizers from scratch. He shared some of his ambient electronic music that he created by mixing clips from other songs along with very tiny sounds he picked up outdoors with an amplifying microphone. He got me with the tiny sounds bit since one of my favorite albums (Vespertine) was created using the same method. He lives very simply, built his entire house with his own hands, wakes up at 4AM every day to work on his art and does electrical side jobs to put food on the table. The photos don't do justice to his work, but I tried. The first photo is Johannes with one of his talking robots (it speaks English and Italian), the next couple of photos are more examples of his work and the last photo is of his homemade synthesizers.