italian
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Concrete Shelves
My friend Matteo Uggeri interviewed me for his blog CONCRETE SHELVES. We talk about Italian music, Billy Joel, tapes, and the 1968 Olympics. Read the entire interview here to learn more about my record collection and ambivalent relationship to the fetishism of the musical commodity. The most visible and exposed records are “Montreal Taperun” and…
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Sound Propositions 014: Nicola Ratti
Originally published at www.acloserlisten.com Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release…
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Giovanni Lami ~ Hysteresis I-IV
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN I realized that it can take other forms, others than the one imposed. Not just a section, but a circle or an ellipse, a closed path where you may see a cyclic repeat of events where not everything has a beginning and an end. Hysteresis is an ongoing work…
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WK569 ~ Omaggio a Marino Zuccheri
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN Onga and Boring Machines deliver another unexpected gem with WK569’s Omaggio a Marino Zuccheri, an homage to the Italian godfather of electronic music studios from a trio of contemporary artists and technicians. Marino Zuccheri is certainly worthy of such an homage, and his influence is felt around the world…
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On the Return of Senufo Editions (Giuseppe Ielasi, Alessandro Brivio, Takamitsu Ohta)
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN Giuseppe Ielasi has been one my favorite artists for a decade now, his reputation cemented in my mind by the blissful textures of August (2007) and the rhythmic sampledelica of Aix (2009), both for 12k. His Stunt series (2008-2013) further solidified this position with its singular take on turntable…
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“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” (a mix for S K Y A P N E A on NTS)
“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” a mix for s k y a p n e a on NTS – by joseph sannicandro (a closer listen / lost children) LISTEN (guest mix begins at 00:56:00) In addition to a show on NTS radio, S K Y A P N E A is a record…
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Giuseppe Ielasi ~ Untitled, Bellows ~ Reelin’
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN Giuseppe Ielasi began producing music in the early ‘90s as a guitar player in the European free improv scene, but has long since been known primarily as a deeply skilled producer of inventive elecroacoustic music. He has also run several labels (Fringes, Bowindo, Schoolmap, and currently Senufo Editions) and…
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Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra
There are different schools of thought when it comes to the production of “soundscapes.” There is R. Murray Schafer, who coined the term, and his World Soundscape Project, which approaches the soundscape as “acoustic ecology.” Some have criticized his approach as nostalgic, with romantic notions of pre-industrial life, constructing a division between nature and culture…
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Glauco Salvo ~ 5 Haiku
A compact suite in five parts for banjo, e-bowed zither, and electronics, it is nonetheless the environmental sounds that are the heart of 5 Haiku. Drawing metrical and formal inspiration from its poetic namesake, 5 Haiku is given shape by Glauco Salvo’s tentative playing in quiet dialogue with his natural surroundings. Recorded live on-site with…
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Andrew Pekler ~ Tristes Tropiques
Andrew Pekler returns with a heady solo album full of beautiful electronic vistas and tropically-inspired ethnographic hallucinations. In searching for the blurry border between the familiar and the foreign, Tristes Tropiques is the direct descendant of the “coffee-coloured” Fourth World music of Jon Hassell. At times densely layered and others richly minimal, a classic headphone…
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con_cetta vs MonoLogue ~ Orlando
Originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN. The ever-reliable Time Released Sound label kicked off 2014 in strong fashion with Orlando, a unique collaboration billed as con_cetta vs MonoLogue. Though conceptually interesting and certainly enriched by an understanding of its context, the album stands as a beautiful work on its own. The use of music in…
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Giovanni Lami ~ Bias
It’s like a garden, where everything grows by itself and you need to make just a few things, to see what is going to happen most of the time. -Giovanni Lami Does a physical medium simply contain (or mediate) a work of art, or can the medium be a work all its own? Since at…
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