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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

Ricordi Quel Mattino, Quell'Aria Di Vetro?

belief perseverance

14 October 2022
Image - Object from Hans-Jörg Georgi

MOTIONLESS FLIGHT

This is a study of a method of generating chords from a single sine wave. Each note of a random melody gets divided into 8 new tones, comprising the first 8 undertones of that note. Plus a bunch of other modulation and stuff to make it sound good (at least to my ears). This is a recording of one "performance" of the patch, and is not edited or post-processed in any way. Made in VCVRack; not my first patch, but my first decent patch starting from scratch.

Annotated video (of a different performance): https://youtu.be/pDN_Zy8sg4w

You can get this patch at https://patchstorage.com/stations-of-the-tide/ if you want to try it yourself, or make it into something else. Click the Run button on Clockd to get it started.

The title comes from Michael Swanwick's novel of the same name.

There's a sample from an earlier version of this patch at https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/2023-01-01-vcv-rack-study

Stations of the Tide

- Forest1

A new beginnings

UnusualEncounter III (extract)

i fall apart (ambient version slowed down)

mOOn Apartment Cleanup

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

Ricordi Quel Mattino, Quell'Aria Di Vetro?

Alessandro Barbanera

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