b_k_n ()
b_k_n ()
fixed media
2023
Duration: 8'55''
Sound diffusion: quadriphonic fixed media
The piece is inspired by the the sculpture "The Broken Circle” by Beverly Pepper, an element of land art in the city of Brufa, in Umbria (Italy).
b_k_n( ) intends to restore the representation of a generating force, of an explosive event that produces the beginning of life and of the world, in a timbrical and structural dimension where the contrast between stillness and dynamism creates a formal balance poised between possibility and impossibility. The overall circular trend, from which sound structures emerge that offer as many interrupted paths of ascent and descent, interprets the materiality of the original work and its conflictual contrast with the landscape, reading it from different distances and according to different angles. The timbrical research aims to recall the materials used for sculpture (mainly steel and concrete), with the preparation of traditional instruments as violin and an electric bass guitar, to generate sound materials to feed many electronic synthesis processes (granular synthesis, re-synthesis and physical modeling) used to build the piece.
The result is a work that associates the materiality of sound and the use of residual timbres as citation s of the associated collective ancestral memory to the universal shape of the circle.
PERFORMANCES
11.10.2023 - Australasian Computer Music Conference, ElectroMUSE, UNE Sidney (AUS)
07.10.2023 - Muslab 2023, Museo Antropologico Y De Arte Contemporaneo, Guayaquil (ECUA)
14.04.2023 - SICM Colloque International, Université de Lille, Lille (FR)
11.04.2023 - UNDÆ Radio #261, Radio Circulo (ES, ARG)
Ordine e Mutilazione
Ordine e Mutilazione
sound poetry | spoken words | fixed media
2019-2021
Duration: 37'00''
Sound diffusion: stereophonic
Ordine e mutilazione is an electroacoustic fixed media composition that comes from the book “Ordine e Mutilazione” (Pietre Vive Editore, 2016) by the Italian poet Elena Zuccaccia.
The musical writing dialogues with the voice, reconstructing the dramaturgical structure of the poem, allowing the emergence, in a musical form, of roles and deep narrative dynamics. This process of
original text, a new context where poetry comes to life in a continuous dialogue between the physical body
(the voice), literary body (the poem), and the sound body, thanks to the synthesis techniques used and the
processing of concrete sounds and of the voice itself.
Voice: Elena Zuccaccia.
Performances
14.04.2023 - On air / On site, Institute of Solology, Deen Haag (NED)
18.05.2019 - Bologna in Lettere, Sala Teatro Costarena, Bologna (IT)
Macello
Macello
for fixed media
2017
Duration: 5'19''
Sound diffusion: stereo, octophonic
Macello starts from some excerpts taken from the collection of poems by Ivano Ferrari (Mantova, 1948), published with the same title by Einaudi in 2004.
Voice: Fabrizio Cruciani
The composition develops entirely from the reciting voice samples, as all the sounds are the result of it's elaboration. The search for an internal dramaturgy makes the three "stanzas" of the text correspond to three acoustic environments, linked by a narrative thread with the sound elements build, deny, alternate, add up, collide. The initial search for a defined vocality, a metaphorical search for the sense of the human, leads instead to the dissolution of the voice, a parallel to the dissolution of the element of humanity. The process of construction and destruction of the voice in its intelligibility has as its counterpart the emergence, at first avoided and then inevitable, of a resulting rhythm, even if inconstant and not coherent. In this dialogical relationship of tension, the resonances and formants of the voice are then used to set up an inharmonic background context, devoid of any hypothesis of tonal resolution, to arrive at a final scenario in which the "life that begins again" is totally transfigured and left adrift of uncontrolled and dehumanized developments.
Performances
05.11.2021 - eviMus, Saarbrücker (DE)
23.06.2018 - Verso la Meta Musica, Conservatorio G. Martucci, Salerno (IT).
09.10.2017 - Ver-v #3 Vox Electri, Auditorium del Conservatorio B. Marcello, Venezia (IT) *premiere
HypnogramFor #1
HypnogramFor #1
fixed media
2018
Duration: 5'33''
Sound diffusion: stereophonic
This piece represents the translation into musical parameters of the physiological elements of the sleep cycle phases, reading an hypnogram as a score for electronic music and a score for structure. The hypnogram is used as a guide to build an algorithmic composition where the descriptions of the elements proper to the electrical activity of the brain for each phase, provides a set of electro-acoustic elements, processes and sound modifiers, at the same time suggesting the nature and the type of the sound material used in those processes.
Monades +
Monades +
fixed media
2019
Duration: 6'52"
Sound diffusion: stereo
Monad (from Greek μονάς, “singularity” ) may refer in philosophy variously to a single source acting alone, or to an indivisible origin, or to an elementary particle. This piece represents an investigation that originates in the exposition of a monad, created with two samples of clarinet multiphonic. Through some rhythmic elaboration techniques, different synthesis methodologies and spectral processing, a path is delineated within the sound, which explores the very nature of the elements brought into play in a system that tends to disintegrate and recompose itself in a new unit, but completely transfigured. A new monad, where every residual of harmony or assonance with the initial sound material has completely disappeared.