1. ALEX BUCK   « A revolta dos Xapiri’s »   9’56’’

The name A Revolta dos Xapiris (Xapiri’s rebellion), can serve as an input for the audience’s listening experience. My intention with this work was to amplify the unheard voices of indigenous people, especially those of Yanomami tribes in my home country, Brazil. For them, the Xapiris Spirits are the real owners of nature. This piece is a kind of continuity of a previous composition named Screaming Trees. Both of them are inspired by a book of David Kopenawa, one of nowadays most important indigenous leader in Brazil. When looking for indigenous recordings in the internet, I accidently ran into a recording of David Kopenawa himself, singing in a kind of Xapiri’s ritual. I, then, incorporated some samples of this singing in the work, and it became its main material. All voice sounds are from this particular recording.

Alex Buck (b. 1980) is a performer-composer based in California praised for his “sophistication and originality in his aesthetic goals” (Flo Menezes). His electronic pieces are “masterfully arranged” (Raul da Gama). He “knows how to fill a frame perfectly” (Betzy Bloomberg), creating “a sonic world that both grips and invites, impossible to resist (Vicki Ray).” Buck belongs to a select group of musicians that have their work acknowledged by his peers from both electroacoustic music and jazz realms. Originally from São Paulo (BR), Alex is considered one of the most innovative Brazilian drummers of his generation, with a unique approach towards the instrument.

1. AlexBuck  « A revolta dos Xapiri’s »   (Prix Russolo 2020/21)

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Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments from the social media universe.

Seize the Means of Complexity is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: "We are in the asshole of history. Broken individuals struggling with mental health, media obsession, need for attention and legitimation. Burning souls searching for validation, suffering from imposter syndrome in a post-Netflix wasteland. From the ruins of our subjectivity, something can be built; something must be built. To seize the means of complexity, we must comprehend the tools of algorithmic subsumption, and leverage that knowledge to steer their development towards an open-source conception of subjectivity. We should all have access to the codes, technologies, models, and complexities that shape our lives. By embracing noise rather than shying away from it, this adaptive open-source subject could pave the way for a future transcending capitalist realism and its end of history, forging a new form of communism fit for the 21st century."
Seize the Means of Complexity is the recomposition of some materials Mattin used in his interactive performances over the last year: a mass of musical fragments that crystallise as a call for mobilisation. As the title of the album advises, or rather states: to not be crushed by the symptoms that social media produces on us, we must seize the opportunity opened up by the internet in its widest complexity. How can we collectivize the psychosomatic consequences produced by the Meganets? How can we reverse-engineer social media? This new record by Mattin commissioned for Xong collection contains recordings from TikTok and Instagram (hits, pop songs, advertising and voice) that can be heard as a a chorus of fragments from the multitude addressing psychic destabilization and the horizon of paranoia and alienation. This plunderphonia of sounds transmitted by the global media opens the possibility of addressing what it means to be human beyond the liberal individual. Seize the Means of Complexity is a proposition, a sonic stage for something to happen.

Xong is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists' and listeners' imagination.

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Realised by Mattin at Abject Musik Studio, 2022, Mastered by Rashad Becker, Clunk Studio, Cover by Mattin, Artwork Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in an edition of 150 copies including collector’s edition of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments of the social media universe, signed by the artist, Cat.n° XONG collection XX09 (2023), Label Xing, Anti-Copyright

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Atelier Sonore Nautilus est un lieu de l'école de Musique de Faverges dédié à la musique Concrète. L'atelier héberge également un projet de mémoire sonore afin d'archiver les souvenirs et les richesses de la commune de Faverges.


Enseignant : Philippe Blanchard (Le lieutenant Caramel).

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1. AlexBuck « A revolta dos Xapiri’s » (Prix Russolo 2020/21)

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