italian
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FaravelliRatti ~ Lieu
Lieu is the debut from the collaborative pair FaravelliRatti. As the name might indicate, the members of the duo are named Attilo Faravelli and Nicola Ratti. Ratti is better known, having received attention for the excellent Bellows project with Giuseppe Ielasi, as well as for solo records and remixes. Faravelli has done much work in…
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Comments on Rock
Comments on Rock Luciano Berio One evening, many years ago (maybe 15), in the house of Roberto Leydi, I heard a series of quite rare recordings curated by Alan Lomax, in 1938, for the Library of Congress in Washington. In these recordings Jelly Roll Morton, the first great jazz pianist, recounts the story of jazz…
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OUTSIDE THE BOX
I’m very pleased to share this conversation with Bruno Stucchi, graphic designer and co-founder of the Die Schachtel label. Stucchi reflects upon the evolution of the label, the suppressed history of Italian experimental music, and the continued importance of big ideas. Die Schachtel is a partnership between Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, who…
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Making Yourself Disappear
Alvin Curran has been at the forefront of challenging musical convention for over half a century. His work has pushed back against the institutional stranglehold on culture, encouraging anybody to make music, anywhere and with anybody. A dominant tendency in his oeuvre has been finding new ways to activate spaces and cultivate active listening and…
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Significant Scores
“Significant scores” (2008) Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Napolitano Translated by Joseph Sannicandro “The musical instrument is a machine useful to man. But not only useful for producing notes, and not at all neutral; with its techniques, it is the concrete custodian of the choices made in continuity and, like buildings, has a memory. The sounds produced by…
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The Pleasure of Emptiness
“John Cage, or, the Pleasure of Emptiness” (1977) Roberto Calasso Translated by Joseph Sannicandro For almost twenty years I have seen John Cage booed: first in Darmstadt, where the followers of Neue Musik themselves booed, frightened by his intrusion that ruined all their Beautiful Structures (and in fact his arrival did signal the end of…
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La Guerra dei Cafoni
I’ve noticed that film audiences are more sensitive to “spoilers” than literary theorists, so I will just say a few words about the title of this film to restore some of the context lost in translation. La Guerra dei Cafoni. Released in English as The War of the Bumpkins, the choice of “bumpkin” for cafoni…
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Old Bicycle Records ~ Sparkle in Grey, Nuno Moita/Matteo Uggeri, Stefano De Ponti, and Tape Crash # 6 & #7
This is a compendium gathering posts originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN Old Bicycle Records ceased operations in 2016 (with the exception of a joint-released split digital release which was delayed until 2018). From 2011-2016, label boss Vasco Viviani released some truly excellent and eclectic music from Sparkle in Grey, Harshcore, Futeisha, Stefano de Ponti,…
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Emiliano Romanelli ~ 333 Loops (Volume 1)
Originally published at http://www.acloserlisten.com Emiliano Romanelli (b. 1979) is well-known amongst the Italian scene for his work in the multimedia duo Tu m’. Back at The Site Before we were pretty fond of their record Monochromes, which made our Best of 2009 list. Released on the 12k imprint LINE, the four numbered tracks were stark…
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Inverted Microphones: Giovanni Lami’s Tapeocracy
In the film Il Postino (1994), the titular Postman becomes inspired to express himself after encountering the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, living in exile on a small island in the south of Italy. Neruda helps the Postman, Mario, to pursue his own Beatrice, standing in for Dante’s ideal woman. The Postman successfully courts his love,…
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“ma(d)re nostrx ii” [mix]
Live sound mix by sound artist Joseph Sannicandro for Free City Radio with Stefan Christoff, mixed live on radio CKUT in Montreal, 26 December 2018. This mix was presented live on CKUT for Free City Radio the day after Christmas. I also presented a similar mix in an art gallery in Boston on 8…
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Giulio Aldinucci ~ Disappearing In A Mirror
Originally posted at A CLOSER LISTEN Disappearing In A Mirror follows last year’s Borders And Ruins, both on Karlrecords, and together they form an intense and complimentary diptych of ambient drone sound design. While Giulio Aldinucci‘s earlier record explores the relationship between peoples and territories and the instability of both as imaginary constructs, Disappearing In…
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