October 24, 2017

Time:	18:00
Location:	Il Suono di Piero [Aula Bianchini]
Category:	Acousmatic
Duration:	46’
Sound Direction:	Federico Paganelli
Francis Dhomont	PHŒNIX XXI • 16’32
Giuseppe Pisano	Termiti • 4’02
Diego Ratto	Echoss • 8’15
Roberto Begini	Kymbalon 3 • 8’30
Alessandro Perini	Étude Tendu • 8’35

Program Notes

PHŒNIX XXI [2016] To Inés Wickmann. A trace / confirmation of the acousmatic vitality at the beginning of the XXIst century, of course.But, for me, it is also a new life given to ancient musical ashes, very old recordings and reanimated but transvestites extracts of instrumental works. A kind of eternal return.Phoenix XXI was commissioned by the INA-GRM. World premiere on October 8th 2016 in Paris, concert INA-GRM.

Termiti [2017] is a study about decomposing matter. Concrete sounds, human sounds, coming from the real world and carelessly left to rot. Turned into a new ecosystem, a bog hosting new saprophytic life forms. The swarming mass of micro-sound, randomly storming around, fleshes these materials, building new shapes in which, looking carefully, is still possible to grasp ruins of the original components.

Echoss [2017] The piece is made by three movements. Violent gestures interrupt a fake tranquillity. Deeper, there is a stormy excitement that really comes out in the last part. Silence, virtual-space and picture-background management, are just a few of the important aspects which the composition is focused on.

Kymbalon 3 [2017] is a composition focused on non-instrumental sound sources and concrete sound, with particular reference to metallic objects. It’s a work composed entirely with a single source, a large metal dish, from which various sounds have been made. Development of the piece is focused on sound processing, with particular reference to texture- generation and with a specific algorithm designed for the project (algorithm for generating fractal textures).

Étude Tendu [2017] After building four swings with steel wires, amplified with contact microphones, and using them for a live piece called “Steel String Quartet”, I recorded a set of sounds resulting from different techniques applied to the metallic wires. “Étude tendu” is a composition entirely made with those sounds.