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Excerpt from live gig 2023 for Piano Day 2023

Cave (Live Excerpt 2023)

URBS is an intriguing combination of ambient textures and location-based field recordings. Originally released on Compact Disc by Hypnos Recording (U.S, 2012), Sanfilippo now revisits the work years later to subtly re-imagine it using his current creative approach in the same Onix II Studio, in the mountains near Barcelona. The extra textures don’t just add interest to the more crafted sounds on the record; these ghostly audio presences are the primary forms within these blurry ethereal soundscapes. Here Bruno Sanfilippo has softened his sound palette into such subtle tones that it is pleasingly difficult to define what he calls "the boundary between [musical] sound and noise. Gentle and evocative, subtly textural and transporting – maybe you hate or adore it, but it is hardly indifferent to you. ad21
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“Where is the defined boundary between sound and noise? Music usually doesn’t seem comfortable with ‘noise’ – due to the fragility of its aesthetic dimension, urban noise, in its context of common things, seems to be inexpressive. In this work, I incorporate the murmur of cities as one more element that dissolves with the faint sound of electronic sources, in this case, the manipulation of a Korg Radias synthesizer and a Lexicon processor.  The field recordings were obtained using an iPod Touch and recorded in churches, train stations, subway platforms, and the streets and bars of cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, and New York. The cover photo was captured from inside a bus in Berlin.” Bruno Sanfilippo, 2023.

More information: https://linktr.ee/BrunoSanfilippo

The Man in the Gray Hat

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Concept and music: Aida Shirazi
Text: Haleh Ghassemi, Irène Gayraud
Voice: Haleh Ghassemi, Irène Gayraud, Aida Shirazi
Choreographer and Dancer: Stefanie Inhelder
Light Designer: Ablan Rouge
Educational Supervisor: Jean Lochard Special thanks to Pierre Jodlowski, Philippe Langlois, Grégoire Lorieux, Sébastien Naves, Grégoire Lavaud.

“Né entre corps” is a multidisciplinary piece for voice, electronics, one dancer, and lights. The work revolves around two main topics of my interest: poetry and physical movement. While working on this project, I was interested in investigating the relationship between these two elements in the context of my music.
For this project, I invited Haleh Ghassemi and Irène Gayraud to write a bilingual text in Persian and French respectively. My aim aim was to use the sonic characteristics of both texts. Both French and Persian sound very specific, and I tried to find a sonic universe that encompasses both versions and puts them at the front and center of the work.
The recordings of the text belong to Haleh and Irène who recite their own versions of the text. There are some fragmented and distorted parts of the text done by myself. In some sections simple tools are used to process Stefanie’s sound of breath in real time, adding to the carnal and psychological impact of her movements.
The recordings were processed with various softwares, including Circe, a voice transformation application developed by Frederik Bous at IRCAM.
The main ideas on choreography by Stefanie Inhelder was to position the dancer in ways that only part of her body was visible in various instances, hence the body itself is projected as ambiguous, distorted shapes. At times, this body looks like a creature, a beast, an amorphous apparition, but at its core, it belongs to the main character, the storyteller, the Mother; a figure who belongs to no time and all times. She is the past, present, and future of all of us. She is our collective consciousness. She knows our memories, and we know hers. She doesn’t belong to any and yet no place. She speaks a language that we all know and speak.

«در موزه تنم
زخمها و
رازها و
یادگارها
زیر نور زردرنگ کم‌جانی
آرمیده‌اند
گاه بیگانه
گاه آشنا
گاه در میانه‌شان
راوی تاریخ سیال زندگیم
با خاطراتم نشسته بر سلول‌های خاکستری
موقت!
هر بار
به یادشان که بیاورم
جابه‌جا می‌شوند
دگرگونه
پیدا، ناپیدا
مرئی، نامرئی
دور، نزدیک
زخمها ولی ریشه دارند
استوار بر تنم
تاریخچه‌ کوچک من
تاریخچه خصوصی من
حک شده بر تنم
بر روانم
معمار منند اینها
منی که آشناست و
غریبه توامان
میگذرد از میان رد پای زمان بر تنم
منم که تماشا میکنم
نظاره منم
و نظاره‌گر
منظور
و ناظر
در این جهانی که تمام من است و
من نیست
از میان یاخته‌های عصبی
اعوجاج بی‌پایان
آینه در آینه
من تکرار میشوم
و درد
و تاریخچه کوچکم
بر گستره تنگ عمر کوتاه
آرام دور میشود
میخزد
آهسته… آهسته
به سوی هیچ.»
هاله قاسمی

"Dans les archives, dans le coffret de mon corps
cicatrices secrets et souvenirs de mon esprit
sous une lumière gris jaunâtre pâle.
Se reposer paisiblement, oui, enfin paisiblement.
Parfois vient un étranger
parfois un intime
parfois un qui se tient, hésitant, entre les deux
Raconter l'histoire fluide de ma vie
avec des souvenirs compressés contre ma matière grise
si fugaces, déjà disparus.
À chaque fois, à chaque fois
je me souviens tellement d'eux...
Ils se déplacent, dérivent, se tordent, s’entremêlent
s’altèrent
se révèlent, s’éclipsen
(nus, couverts)
(enduits, décapés)
visibles, invisibles
éloignés, à portée de main.
Mais enracinées sont les cicatrices.
Ferme et solide sur mon corps se dessine
la minute de mon histoire
L'histoire feutrée
gravée sur mon corps
sur mon âme.
Me sculptent
le moi familier et l'étranger,
entre les neurones
distorsion constante et infinie.
Dans le miroir à l'infini
je suis reflété, résonné, je suis écho
et détresse, oui détresse et douleur.
Mon petit conte éphémère, mon récit en miniature
à l'horizon écrasant
de la brève durée des jours
disparaît lentement
ramper
tire
vers la nullité."
Iréne Gayraud

Né entre corps (binaural)

Chapter 1: The Saga Begins - Blue Night: A Twin Song
On a peaceful and enchanting blue night, a captivating tune called "Saga" played in the air. The melody was so mesmerizing that it transported listeners to a realm of tranquility and self-reflection beneath the glittering stars. What's even better, Saga's sister is just as beautiful.

Did you know that the unique "racketball snare sound" that appears halfway through Saga's music is created by Nigel Stanford? His distinctive sound has left a lasting impact on the music.


https://soundcloud.com/nigelstanford/2-06-the-edge?si=2f1557e3caa24dbeb9578ef44db7eaaf&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Bluenight - Part I - Saga: Final Remaster

Breeze (Vargkvint & Jakob Lindhagen Rework)

This is the second collaboration work by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, music composers who also are active as members of Anoice, RiLF, and Films, together with Kenji Azuma, an ambient music artist who plays a range of unusual instruments and the trio’s first EP.

It's been only three months since the previous collaboration single 'Ice Mermaid' with the basis of the song’s sounds created from materials which are related to ice and water. This time, they will release the four songs-included EP 'Memories of the Stone' featuring the sounds of a stone and limestone cave. Just like their previous work, this song is also based on an illustration painted by MATSURICA who also takes charge of the artwork for some of the releases from Anoice, Yuki Murata, and Films, and it is under the theme of the exploration into a cave. A wolf finds a cave in the forest and gingerly goes into it, and steps forward to the deep as if being invited by the sounds of water dropped on the puddle and bats singing. And then, he leaves his body to energetic dance of the ancient animals drawn on the wall...

Like the previous collaboration 'Ice Mermaid', each artist took charge of playing various instruments, but the most notable point in this EP 'Memories of the Stone' is that they mined Sanukitoids, a variety of high-Mg granitoid found in limited area of Japan and recorded its sound in the forest. You should be able to feel the memories of the long and epic history via the beautiful and clear sound of the stone which has existed since ancient times.

Step into an adventure with the main character wolf, Rem, while looking at the illustration.

Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, etc:
https://linkco.re/Z9Z4y5a6
BandCamp:
https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-stone

Memories of the Stone

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out of dream (Anoice / Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata, Kenji Azuma 'Memories of the Stone')

A quiet piece written for Piano Day 2024.

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The Deep Woods (Piano Day 2024)

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Musical Moment № 12".
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan
Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel:
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Musical Moment №12 - Improvised Piano Piece

"We must protect nature and all living beings on Earth, here is the major role of the human being"  Electro-concertino for one synthesizer. /"Nous devons protéger la nature et tous les êtres vivants sur Terre, voici le rôle majeur de l’être humain" Electro-concertino pour un synthétiseur.

Cosmics

Axel Weiss - Guitar
Vicente Bueso - Keyboards

Né entre corps (binaural)

Aida Shirazi

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