This is a something in between a re-mix and a re-make of an old montage piece based on recordings of electrostatic generators that I made in Teylers Museum (Haarlem), and sounds I designed around that. The piece was left out of the actual series of pieces ('Beauty Sleepers') performed there as part of the Toon festival in 2001. The re-make/re-model version was made in loving dedication to my father who passed away on January 24th 2022.

Phlogiston

my son and i hiked in the forest to get to these two beautiful natural landscapes of water. These are located in Hastings Highlands Barry's Bay Ontario Canada...close to our cabin on Lake Kamaniskeg. The views of these two water masses are impactful and always leave me breathless. 
Photo by Matthew Janik from last Fall 2021..Music file is low grade mp3 as opposed to my usual aif files, as i'm uploading from cabin-:)

Eternal Project- Big Point Pond To Biernacki Lake-Rough Cut

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/DmxWV4wS9bI

A track from "Oblio", album released by ROHS! Lontano series.
https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/oblio

"Oblio" (italian for "oblivion") is a collection of 7 tracks, of which one doesn’t exist. The album is a short study on abandonment, sweetness and melancholy associated with the progressive disintegration of memory, the loss and irreversible modification of the mind: an album about the sense of the end of things, up to the fulfillment of oblivion. Symbolically therefore the last track (the titletrack) is an empty space, it's missing as if it never existed, or as if it was composed in the past who knows by whom ... but forgotten. "Oblio" is based on classical piano music loops (Ravel, Debussy, Bartok), taken, internalized, reimagined and made "other", in an attempt to forget them: an almost Zen testbed for the abandonment of the self.

The opening piece "Nostalgia" explores and expands the space between two notes in a particular passage of "Adagio Religioso" from Béla Bartók's concerto n.3 for piano and orchestra, an almost scientific attempt to vivisect that melodic cell and observe it at microscope, to try to understand "what is there", why it is precisely in that micropassage that all the melancholy of the world seems to be enclosed. Also "Remembrance of things past" has the same intent, inspired by the Proustian novel (in particular by Vinteuil's "petite phrase"), and composed using only one sample elaborated from "La Fille aux cheveux de lin" by Claude Debussy. In "La même vieille chanson" the last fragment of an old melody is repeated stuck in the mind, mixing with the resonances of many day lived. It's based on a loop from Maurice Ravel's "Le Jardin féerique". Also the track three, whose title is a quote from a poem by Montale "Forse un mattino andando in un aria di vetro" ("Maybe one morning walking into an air of glass"), where to the sound of a window creaking in a particularly windy day, an apathetic day between many, a chant joins: in search of an epiphany that illuminates and rip the veil of reality. Finally "The worlds behind you..." is a dark lullaby under a dusty blanket of noise, and is based on a loop from the "Passacaille" of Ravel's Trio in A minor op.67; while "... are fading" still uses a fragment from "Le Jardin féerique" in decay. 

Tracklist:

1) Nostalgia [6.47]
2) La même vieille chanson [4.00]
3) Ricordi quel mattino, quell'aria di vetro? [8.56]
4) Remembrance of things past [6.32]
5) The worlds behind you... [7.12]
6) ...are fading [5.04]
7) oblio [∞]

Credits:
Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (April 2020 - February 2022)
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

La Même Vieille Chanson

Ignited by "Landfill Totems" by @Hainbach (w. Spitfire Audio)  - Wires, Noises, and some LABS auxiliary (Frozen Strings). 

Added eurorack chatter (mainly Moog 32, DFAM, DSM01,02,03 and Wogglebug) + Lexicons (41 and 80).

Beauty Oscillator

Narcoleptic Beauty Oscillator

the full ep you find here: https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/cold-harbour

or here with beautiful postcard-edition: https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cold-harbour

the video you find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DotvbxjgCew

Cold Harbour I

Ellipsis

Acoustic Evening Mood

Waves

twø | Album 'NØ​INMI'

Cascade Infinity is a work for Gezhung and Electronics . It was composed by Jo Thomas. Played live in Pontio by Luxi Tain on the 18.2.24

Cascade Infinity Jo Thomas Show Reel Extracts

video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUrBeXq4_K/

puntal

Musician, composer, sound artist. New album “Oblio” released by ROHS! Lontano series: https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/oblio

Some reviews:

Oblio [2022]:

- collettivoinconscio
collettivoinconscio.blogspot.com/2023/09/alessandro-barbanera-viaggio-al-termine.html

- SoWhat
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/alessandro-barbanera-oblio/

Haunted Houses [2020]:

- a closer listen
https://acloserlisten.com/2020/10/16/acl-2020-music-for-haunted-houses/

- SoWhat
https://sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/alessandro-barbanera-haunted-houses/

- Rockit 
https://www.rockit.it/recensione/49067/alessandrobarbanera-haunted-houses

-Music Won't Save You
https://musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/12/02/musictosave-009/

- Kathodik
https://www.kathodik.org/2021/02/14/alessandro-barbanera-haunted-houses/

In The Middle Of The Path [2019]:

- Chain D.L.K.
https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=11424

- Music Won't Save You
musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/01/17/alessandro-barbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path/

- SoWhat
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/alessandro-barbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path/

- Rockit
www.rockit.it/recensione/45575/alessandrobarbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path

- Blow Up [#262, 03/2020]
www.blowupmagazine.com/prod/blow-up-262-marzo-2020.asp

- Europa e cultura elettronica
europaeculturaelettronica.blogspot.com/2019/11/alessandro-barbanera-in-middle-of-path.html

- Music Map
www.musicmap.it/recdischi/ordinaperr.asp?id=7397

Bastard Under The Stars [2015]:

- Rockit
https://www.rockit.it/recensione/30766/alessandrobarbanera-bastard-under-the-stars

La Même Vieille Chanson

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