usoproject's Last.fm Journal

Call for electroacoustic.. works - 2009

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:36:31 +0000

Synesthesia Recordings is pleased to announce a 'Call for electroacoustic.. works - 2009'.

All presented music works should fit one of the following categories:

1. Works for recorded media alone
2. Works for recorded media and instrumental solo

Works
should be produced using any conceivable analog device processing tools
(pedals, no input mixers, analog synthesizers, custom built devices).

The use of computer or any digital device (except a DAW for the tracking/mixing) is not allowed.

The use of instrumental soloist is limited to one of the following instruments:

Violin, Violoncello, Double bass, Flute, Clarinet in B, Bass Clarinet, Soprano and Alto Saxophone.

The deadline for submissions is the 31st October 2009.

[more info: http://www.synesthesiarecordings.com/2009/03/call-for-electroacoustic-works-2009/]

[http://www.synesthesiarecordings.com/docs/Call_for_electroacoustic_works_2009.pdf]

Winter Wishes 2008

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:56:44 +0000

Consequenzas is a free hallucinated and irrational experience based on the counterpoint between a male voice-over (reading a text from T.S.Eliot's "Four Quartets"), and an arabesque of sounds derived from different compositions for solo instruments by 'Luciano Berio', known as the 'Sequenze'.
The electroacoustic transformation of the materials and the strong alteration of the voice's prosody refer to a far intimate place (in space and time), split between myth and religion, a place where the men's eyes can barely bear the light of truth.

Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi

Listen/download [http://www.synesthesiarecordings.com/audio/Consequenzas.mp3]

(Italian)

Il tempo presente e il tempo passato
Son forse presenti entrambi nel tempo futuro,
E il tempo futuro è contenuto nel tempo passato
Se tutto il tempo è eternamente presente
Tutto il tempo è irredimibile.
Ciò che poteva essere è un'astrazione
Che resta una possibilità perpetua
Solo nel mondo delle ipotesi.
Ciò che poteva essere e ciò che è stato
Tendono a un solo fine, che è sempre presente.
Passi echeggiano nella memoria
Lungo il corridoio che non prendemmo
Verso la porta che non aprimmo mai
Sul giardino delle rose. Le mie parole echeggiano
Così, nella vostra mente.
Ma a che scopo
Esse smuovano la polvere su una coppa di foglie di rose
Io non lo so.
Altri echi
Vivono nel giardino. Li seguiremo?
Presto, disse l'uccello, trovateli, trovateli,
Girato l'angolo. Attraverso il primo cancello
Nel nostro primo mondo, seguiremo noi
L'inganno del tordo? Nel nostro primo mondo.
Là essi erano, dignitosi, invisibili,
Si muovevano sulle foglie morte senza calcarle,
Nel caldo autunnale, per l'aria che vibrava,
E l'uccello chiamava, rispondendo a
La musica non udita nascosta tra i cespugli,
E c'era lo sguardo non visto, perché le rose
Avevano l'aspetto di fiori che sono guardati.
Là essi erano, come ospiti nostri, accettati e accettanti.
Così ci muovemmo, noi e loro, cerimoniosamente,
Lungo il vuoto viale, fino al rondò di bosso,
A guardar giù nel laghetto prosciugato.
Secco il laghetto, secco cemento, orlato di bruno,
E il laghetto si riempì d'acqua alla luce del sole,
E adagio adagio si alzarono i fiori del loto,
Scintillò la superfice al cuore della luce,
Ed eccoli dietro di noi, riflessi nel laghetto.
Poi passò una nuvola, e il laghetto fu vuoto.
Via, disse l'uccello, perché le foglie erano piene di bambini
Che si nascondevano, tutti eccitati, sforzandosi di non ridere.
Via, via, via, disse l'uccello: il genere umano
Non può sopportare troppa realtà.
Il tempo passato e il tempo futuro
Ciò che poteva essere e ciò che è stato
Tendono a un solo fine, che è sempre presente.
______________________________________

(English)

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?
Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,
Round the corner. Through the first gate,
Into our first world, shall we follow
The deception of the thrush? Into our first world.
There they were, dignified, invisible,
Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,
In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,
And the bird called, in response to
The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,
And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses
Had the look of flowers that are looked at.
There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting.
So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,
Along the empty alley, into the box circle,
To look down into the drained pool.
Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,
And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.
Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.
Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

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Sneak Preview: RAI Phonology Studio

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:27:28 +0000

In 1955, the Radio Italiana (Rai) established the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at RAI Center in Corso Sempione 27, Milan (Italy).

Almost half a century later, the museum of Musical Instruments in the Castello Sforzesco now houses the equipment on which Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna conducted the first experiments in electronic music.

Here's a sneak preview via Flickr, which I took at the press conference:

http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2008/09/sneak-preview-rai-phonology-studio.html

more here:

http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2008/09/inside-rai-musical-phonology-studio.html

Matteo Milani
www.usoproject.com
www.synesthesiarecordings.com

graphicalSound: Shapes

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:06:21 +0000

Matteo Milani (aka graphicalSound), is out now on Synesthesia Recordings with the album "Shapes" (SYN-003), a limited edition CD-R (50 copies).

Performed by Matteo Milani.
Produced by Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi.
Artwork by Kirjava [http://kirjava.deviantart.com].
Custom PVC case by Alessandra Botto.
SYN-003 © 2008 Synesthesia Recordings. All rights reserved.

TRACKLIST:

1. State of Perfection (13.08)
2. First contact (08.05)
3. Water Emotions (07.33)
4. Restless (06.47)

RELEASE INFO:

Artist: graphicalSound
Title: Shapes
Cat.No: SYN-003
File under: Experimental/Electronic/Ambient
Format: Limited Edition CD-R/digital
Release date: 10.2008

Shaping the not visible.

http://www.synesthesiarecordings.com/products-page/
www.downloadplatform.com/synesthesia_recordings
www.usoproject.com

Discography:
http://www.twelfthroot.com/recordings/ra01/1_info/ra_info1.html
http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2007/08/graphicalsound-colours-of-noise.html

Synesthesia Recordings

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:30:30 +0000

Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi, aka Unidentified Sound Object [www.usoproject.com], are happy to announce the birth of the label 'Synesthesia Recordings' [www.synesthesiarecordings.com]. This label is to be intended as a repository of live improvised electroacoustic works.
The main goal is to retrieve the late Renaissance praxis of “Ricercare” intended as exploration of a technical device playing it, subverting it in different ways. So this kind of “Musica Ricercata” should be affected by individual approaches to improvisation with sounds material of any kind, samples, electronic devices, pure sine generators, transducers. The local and momentary gesture generates a relational sequenced processes that defines the sonic path from start to the end. This recordings have to be intended as a “document” or Simulacra of a solo or collective performance but not as the performance itself (which is affected by causality relationships and other environmental and statistical phenomena).

After a huge amount of work, a new project called InharmoniCity is ready and is available for download via Music Zeit [www.downloadplatform.com/synesthesia_recordings], our official distributor for digital releases. Limited edition hard copies will be available in few days from now via CDeMUSIC [www.cdemusic.org/artists/placidi&milani.html].
The next step will be a dvd-video release of the same album, co-produced with Zerofeedback [www.zerofeedback.com] video-label by our friend visual artist Selfish [www.myspace.com/zerofeedback]. You can find the press releases here [www.synesthesiarecordings.com/press/InharmoniCity_CD_Press_Release.pdf] and here [www.synesthesiarecordings.com/press/InharmoniCity_DVD_Press_Release.pdf].

Teaser from the forthcoming dvd release 'InharmoniCity':
Girl Running - U.S.O. from selfish on Vimeo [www.vimeo.com/1715060]

TRACKLIST:

1) Girl Running (08.48)
2) Invisible Words (12.20)
3) ...from the Past...out of the Future... (40.36)

InharmoniCity is packaged in a 2-panel wallet with artwork by LA-based artist David Trulli [www.davidtrulli.com]

Best played at high volume in the dark.

U.S.O. - Live Electronics

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:22:38 +0000

Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi
(Unidentified Sound Object) will be online Sunday 23rd December 2007 for a live gig via Mogulus, the groundbreaking broadcast network.
Don't miss the event!

* 21:00 UTC time
* Live video feed from Rome via our blog or our
Mogulus Channel

Rebroadcast will available on U.S.O. channel.

More updates soon!