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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Giulia Parin Zecchin of Julinko

Posted in Questionnaire on April 1st, 2021 by JJ Koczan

Giulia Parin Zecchin Julinko

The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty.

Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the goal over time is to show a diverse range of perspectives as those who take part bring their own points of view to answering the same questions. To see all The Obelisk Questionnaire posts, click here.

Thank you for reading and thanks to all who participate.

The Obelisk Questionnaire: Giulia Parin Zecchin of Julinko

How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

With music I’ve always felt like I am trying to translate something aerial or resting underneath, into an audible scenario.

I sensed a belonging to music as a child and started to sing in choirs and later, in bands. Then, as a young adult I guess I was brought away by a much too structured model of society and education, and stopped practicing and experimenting with music for years. It all came back to me — and much more forcefully — when a dear friend made me an unexpected gift in 2013: an old acoustic guitar. I realized how much I could express by just pressing the strings and let my voice interact with their sound, and never stopped creating after that.

Describe your first musical memory.

It has a sense of ecstasy, immensity and supernatural. I close my eyes and am I child, going to church. I lift my head, gazing to the big fresco of the vault, observing the painted holy figures and the celestial creamy sky move above me, as the space is filled by organ music and vocal hymns.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

Summer of 2018, June. A choir is doing an open air concert of Medieval and Baroque music, starting at 4AM and dropping the last notes as the sun rose. The light slowly, sensibly changing with the chromatic visual projections decorating the venue: the ruins of an ancient abbey with an opened vault due to WWI bombings. The place is called Abbazia di Sant’Eustachio, located on an hilly area close to Treviso, north-east of Italy. It truly was a breathtaking experience and I will never forget it.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

In 2018 I finally put myself on a stage alone, leading an almost fully improvised set in front of an audience. Before that I was pretty insecure, and thought I could never be able to face a live show alone. After I put myself in that situation, a new world of possibilities opened up.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

I feel I can only answer subjectively to this question, as we all have different ideas and measures in art and life. So as regards my movement, it progresses by slowly giving light and color to the darkness which has always distinguished my expression, yet not erasing it.

How do you define success?

The result of a step further your older self and limits; widening the ability of transmitting emotions and visions to diverse audiences.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

I truly don’t regret any sensory experience I have of this world. Every bit of it is precious and formative in order to evolve as a human being, and even more as a creative artist.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

An album which is minimalist in its source yet huge in its evocative reach. Something connecting a primordial/archaic type of sound to an avantgarde language.

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

To console, to open views and sensibilities and ultimately, to let us taste the eternal, if just for a moment.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

Completing my new collection of poems.

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