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Dave Phillips / Aspec(t) ~ Medusa
Originally published at acloserlisten “The jellyfish represents the collapse of the ecosystem and the spinelessness of the people charged with protecting it.” -George Monbiot,“Feeding Frenzy” Medusa, the first collaboration between Dave Phillips (DP) and Aspec(t), (Mario Gabola and Mimmo Napolitano) is no doubt challenging music, but as the liner notes remind us, we live…
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The CATHEDRALS project
Released as part of Pietro Riparbelli’s CATHEDRALS project, this 25 track album constitutes a psychogeographic soundwalk through Montreal’s Oratoire Saint-Joseph. https://pietroriparbelli.bandcamp.com/album/oratoire-st-joseph-du-mont-royal Joseph Sannicandro – Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Montreal, Quebec)As an Italian-American, I think it goes without saying, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church. Like many others, I experienced a definite theological break…
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Luca Sigurtà ~ Bliss
Originally published by ACL A simple three-note melody is quietly sounded out as electronics buzz and swarm their way into the foreground, a low tone gently swelling in the back. A bird cries above, water sloshes lightly in the harbor. What is conjured up is not quite bliss, but something more ecstatic, outside-of-itself while still…
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Breaking the Wall (Mur 2017)
This is an excerpt taken from the raw material for a sound installation I’m currently developing. The original recording is Marino Zuccheri’s Parete 1967, a concrete tape composition designed to accompany a projection by the painter Emilio Vedova in the Italian Pavilion during Expo 67 in Montreal. This recording was made during the summer…
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Nicola Ratti ~ Ossario (Volumes I and II)
The way I work lately is focused on a live improvisation approach. Streengs is my first solo work where I practiced that way of playing. It is a work made by a single concept and the same set of instruments done in the same period. This is very important to me. It’s like keeping focused…
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noWHere: Manifesto for Sound Artists
In December of 2012, the Italian sound artist Enrico Coniglio published noWHere – ideale manifesto per sound artists, an old-fashioned manifesto articulating a set of core values about how we as artists should approach “live electronics.” Below you’ll find my translation of this manifesto into English. The Manifesto will be presented at this page free…
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Sound Propositions 07: Lemures (Enrico Coniglio + Giovanni Lami)
This article, like all of my Sound Propositions columns, was originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN. A CLOSER LISTEN was honored to have published a translation of sound artist Enrico Coniglio’s noWHere manifesto. Coniglio described his manifesto to me as: Just a small initiative, trying to clarify / provoke the “world of live electronics.”…
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UN PAESE VUOL DIRE Mix by (Gianmarco del Re)
Originally posted at A CLOSER LISTEN Un Paese Vuol Dire Mix by Lostchildrennetlabel on Mixcloud I’ve been really pleased with the mixes that have been produced for this series, as they often break the mold by doing something more creative than just throwing together a bunch of tracks. “Un Paese Vuol Dire…” is this special…
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Sound Propositions 06: Giuseppe Ielasi
[Originally published at acloserlisten.com] Our friends at Experimedia are currently doing a Spotlight feature on Giuseppe Ielasi. Head over to their site to check out 28 Ielasi-related albums, and check out this playlist highlighting the many sides of this very singular talent. I know this will appear very simplistic, but I think that choosing to…
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Interview: Sparkle in Grey
This interview was conducted in late 2008, and first published by the now defunct The Silent Ballet on February 7, 2009. Since then I’ve gone on to interview many Italian artists, curate 2 compilations of contemporary Italian music, and inaugurate a research project exploring the links between Mail Art and Cassette Culture. It also introduced…
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AIPS Collective ~ Postcards from Italy
This essay is included in the collected edition of Gianmarco del Re’s Postcards from Italy, originally published by Fluid-Radio and available for download as a PDF here. Postcards from Italy, the album, is the inaugural release from Oak editions, an independent music art label owned and managed by the ambient artists Francesco Giannico & Alessio…
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Interview: Aspec(t)
Originally posted as part of my mix/interview series at http://www.acloserlisten.com Sec_ part 1 Sec_ part 2 Mario Gabola LCNL 010: SEC_ Mix Last year while in Napoli I met Mario Gabola (A spirale, Aspec(t)) at Perditempo, an incredible music venue in Piazza Dante with a sister-store nearby, both of which act as bars that sell…
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