Six short studies on the electromagnetic sounds generated by performing actions on an electronic device (smartphone). 
Every study involves different actions and different processes. 
Captured with a DIY transducer. 
Analysis and signal processing made with Python, CSound, Pure Data, SuperCollider. 

Study 1. It's Alive! (action: power up, login)
Study 2. On the Inner Spread (action: apps)
Study 3. Rhythmoplets (action: wifi and browsing)
Study 4. A Call to the Bzz (action: phone call)
Study 5. C_A_L_M_A (action: nothing)
Study 6. Finally Out (action: logout, power off)

Homage, with gratitude, to Michael Faraday.

Six Studies On Magnetic Fields (to Michael Faraday)

Live set with piezoelectric pickup, DIY transducer, 2 transformers, and pedals. 
High volume, low jazz.

CRAP - Trust In Noise live set @PDR2024

Test of the offline version of a system for chess games sonification. 
Pieces, squares, and rules are mapped on different musical parameters and events. The system also generates real-time notation for two musicians, representing the two chess players. 
This piece is based on the amazing Aronian-Kramnik, played in Berlin at the Candidates Tournament, 2018:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. O-O Qe7 7. h3 Rg8 8. Kh1 Nh5 9. c3 g5 10. Nxe5 g4 11. d4 Bd6 12. g3 Bxe5 13. dxe5 Qxe5 14. Qd4 Qe7 15. h4 c5 16. Qc4 Be6 17. Qb5+ c6 18. Qa4 f5 19. Bg5 Rxg5 20. hxg5 f4 21. Qd1 Rd8 22. Qc1 fxg3 23. Na3 Rd3 24. Rd1 Bd5 25. f3 gxf3 26. exd5 Qe2 27. Re1 g2+ 0-1

Made in Python, SuperCollider, and Processing.
Huge thanks to Valerio De Paola (guitar) and Carolina Talamo (cello).

64.1 - Version for cello, guitar, and electronics

First live performance of Zener (Dal Rí, 2023 - in progress). 
Performed in Accademia Chigiana, Siena, 26 July 2023.

Francesca Zanghellini - Electric Violin
Yours Truly -  Live Electronics

Zener - for 5-string Electric Violin, Feedback, and SuperCollider

Live demonstration at Soundcraft2015, after my workshop on guitar pedals and effects routing.

Live Demo @ Soundcraft2015

Algorythimc composition study.
I used 5th, 2nd and 3rd order Markov chains over the first movement of Piano Sonata in F major XVI:9 by F. J. Haydn. 
Notes are then played by a simple fm synth.

Fm_JH, for 2 silicon flutes

Conceived over (almost) two years of cronic insomnia.
Version 1 (Version 2 under development - now I can sleep)

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