the songs I am uploading in this set are part of the a hidden concept Anti-Gone, with a reference to the greek heroin Antigone. Published by wm recordings in aug 2009
more infos at www.anti-gone.com


songs from album ANTI-GONE

PARALLEL_41 CD+DVD
OUT on MAY_JUNE 2012 ON BASKARU
<a href="http://baskaru.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-41" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://baskaru.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-41</a>
Julia Kent cello, looping, effects,
Barbara De Dominicis live manipulation, field recordings, voice
Davide Lonardi : video reportage
more infos @ <a href="http://www.par4llel.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.par4llel.org</a>
MP3 Unedited, Unmixed, Raw Audio Excerpts
from PARALLEL_° 41 IMPRO-SESSIONS
Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a record as
Parallelo 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. __recording in interesting spaces-an abandoned tunnel, a farmhouse in piemonte, a 
fort outside venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations
These recordings are an improvised interaction between Julia, Barbara, and the environmental element (with the complicity of Davide Lonardi).
Having no planned structures, these "fragments" are intuitive musical conversations in the simplest of terms as we try to keep these "sessions"
as spontaneous as possible.
all the materials unedited, unmixed, raw
recorded between Alto Adige valley (Bozen)
Marghera Fortress (Venice)
Valdapozzo Farmhouse (Pimont)
and Lanificio ex-wool factory (Naples)
Multiple spaces (NYC)
sometime between oct 2009 and aug 2010
more infos @ <a href="http://www.par4llel.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.par4llel.org</a>

Parallel_41 alias JULIA KENT + BARBARA DE DOMINICIS [CD+DVD out on BASKARU_june 2012]

Live impro/set...AVEC....

photo courtesy of Daniel Crossley @ http://fac-ture.tumblr.com

Here’s the first scene of our dilatable audio/visual collective

Exquisite What! is a collective web / project based on the idea of Exquisite Cadaver: following the surrealist practice a group of people is assembling a dilatable music/video piece divided into scenes... 
more info here: 
http://exquisitewhat.tumblr.com/


I° SCENE - THE SILENT WITNESS

“inspired” by the eight episode of Dekalog VIII - Krzysztof Kieslowski

Commandment VIII: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness

Scene hosted by Barbara - Contributors: chapter 1-Barbara De Dominicis, chapter 2- Andrea Serrapiglio, ch.3-Andrè Ics Ferraris, ch. 4-Leonardo Rosado, ch. 5-Jared Blum, ch. 6-Dominic Cramp , ch. 7-Gianmaria Aprile,  ch. 8- Marco Messina. 




Scene I° - The Silent Witness

Body Maps
by Barbara De Dominicis


Body Maps has been inspired by Jean Luc Nancy’s Corpus.
These tracks evolved from a series of recording sessions held in Italy between 2019 and 2021.
A blend of spoken word, electroacoustic textures and instruments, found sounds and voice, these tracks evolved from a series of recording sessions held in Italy between 2018 and 2021. 
This release had a quite long incubation, almost two years and a half of tryouts, interruptions and afterthoughts to find a possible way to decipher this ineffable and particularly crucial moment of Barbara’s life.
The lyrics represent the attempt to transfigure the fragility into which her body was definitely sinking: a private emotional labyrinth made of abandonment, imperfection, vulnerability, time, alienation, sensuality, illness, identity. A sad and carnal quasi geography of the body, strongly related to a denied, (un)revealed, recovered sensuality.
Barbara wanted the music to preserve a sense of vulnerability and spontaneity therefore during the post production process she kept plenty of unvarnished sounds (teeth, fingers, mouth), half broken melodies, cracked words, ghostly echoes.
The generous musicians involved improvised following very subtle suggestions in the attempt to paint a picture in which everything is exposed to unexpected change; a kaleidoscope of sensations tied to disbelief, fear, and sudden absence.
The fluctuating vocal melodies fade into the electroacoustic interventions of Marco Bonini (electronics and guitar), Giulio Maschio (drums), Elio Martusciello (guitar, bass, synths, manipulations), Marco Messina (electronics), Massimiliano Sacchi (clarinets), Erica Scherl (violin), Andrea Serrapiglio (cello), Teho Teardo (guitar, piano, strings), and weaving languidly in and out, in a slow fragmented exploration that is sometimes painful, sometimes steady, sometimes disorienting.
A collective but gaunt architecture opened to mesmerizing sonic landscapes around which the body unfolds its maps
The artwork is curated by Raffaella Nappo. Her multifaceted artistic practice bridges distinct realms from drawing to painting, from photography to video and installation, blending analog and digital . Her work on Body Maps portrays a world of delicate images as the footprints of a rarefied, delicate but still intense inner world.
Body Maps has been endorsed by Marco Contini’s special and encouraging gaze.


to Alice



1. Mouth
Music by Erica Scherl, Marco Bonini, Barbara De Dominicis

2. Bones
Music by Teho Teardo, Massimiliano Sacchi, Barbara De Dominicis

3. Womb
Music by Elio Martusciello, Barbara De Dominicis

4. Heart Unbeaten
Lyrics inspired by Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
Music by Marco Messina, Barbara De Dominicis, Andrea Serrapiglio

5. Hands
Music by Marco Bonini, Barbara De Dominicis, Giulio Maschio,
Erica Scherl



Barbara De Dominicis
Out on Folderol Records 
With 
Barbara De Dominicis _ lyrics, voice, electronics, programming, found sounds
Marco Bonini _ guitars, electronics 
Elio Martusciello _ electronics, programming, mixing
Giulio Maschio _ drums 
Marco Messina _  electronics, programming , mixing
Massimiliano Sacchi _  bass clarinet
Erica Scherl  _ violin
Andrea Serrapiglio _  cello
David Stampfli  _ spoken voice 
Teho Teardo _  piano, guitar, strings, programming, mixing
Recorded and mixed by _ Marco Messina and Barbara De Dominicis 
@ Folder Studio - Naples, Italy
Additional recordings by Luca Gaudenzi and Antonio Romano 
@ Pyramid Studio -Rome, Italy
@Teho Teardo _Basement Studio _Rome
Mastered by Renato Grieco
Video illustrations and animation by Maria Pia Picozza 
Editing Pierluca Zanda
Drawings and artwork by Raffaella Nappo © 
Published by Marco Contini @ Folderol / Kappabit

6 Ghost Track  Womb - Version - ft.  Elio Martusciello

5 HANDS

4 HEART UNBEATEN ft.  Marco Messina

3 WOMB ft.  Elio Martusciello

2 BONES ft. Teho Teardo

1 MOUTH

a soundwork produeced 
for radio Papesse / Radia Network

http://radia.fm/?p=841

RADIO PAPESSE PRESENTA: Radia Show # 314 - Crossings by Barbara De Dominicis

L'impronta sonora dei paesaggi metropolitani di New York e Napoli, l'intreccio di voci e ritmi che descrivono, dalla strada alla sala di un museo, la natura delle due città, sono al centro di questo doppio ritratto urbano prodotto da Barbara De Dominicis.


Torna Radia e torna ciclico l'appuntamento stagionale con la produzione commissionata o selezionata da Radio Papesse; è con piacere che vi presentiamo Crossings. L'impronta sonora dei paesaggi metropolitani di New York e Napoli, l'intreccio di voci e ritmi che descrivono, dalla strada alla sala di un museo, la natura delle due città, sono al centro di questo doppio ritratto urbano prodotto da Barbara De Dominicis. 
Buon ascolto.


'Just as the living room reappears on the street, with chairs, hearth, and altar, so…the street migrates into the living room.' 
'Porosity is the inexhaustible law of life in this city.'
from Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis ‘Naples’, 1925

'City of ships!  (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!  O the beautiful sharp bow'd steamd-ships and sail-ships!)  City of the world! (for all races are here,  all the lands of the earth make contributions here;) City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!'
from Walt Whitman 'City of Ships' Drum-Taps 1865


CROSSINGS is an emporium of memories documenting Naples and New York along the imaginary 41°parallel that ties them on the same latitude line. Two cities in continuous metamorphosis, revealing how fragile the fringes between reality and the imaginary may be. Analog and digital meet to witness  sounds of strangers, unknown horizon, private memories and crowded streets.These sound collecting events are aimed at creating a dislocation in the listener's uncertain perception of space through sound: a sort of unerasable 'shadow zone' for the imaginary city walker to inhabit a no man's land where the boundaries between the two cities are hardly palpable, proposing a displacing where gaps between audio fragments become for a few instants a sole 'modified' city.

credits: most sounds have been gathered in New York and Naples (sometime between october 2009 and february 2011) then manipulated filtered and and re-worked. The track makes use of field recordings, found sounds, synthesizers, filters, Luigi's Pizza Fritta conversations; liturgical rituals at Napoli Dome (during the days of San Gennaro's blood miracle) Akira Kasai 's Buthoh Performance at the National Museum, Napoli; Porta Capuana Fruit market; Peppino reading excerpts of 'Alzaia' by Erri de Luca; Banda and voices during the San Rocco Parade in Nyc; Coney Island subway stations and library sounds from the american radio archive, The Naked City, Union Square Farmer Market (nyc);  student's protests in Napoli; Marc Ribot concert at the Rose-Brooklyn; New York and Napoli harbours/seagulls/ships; open/broken cables, children; vocal and spoken words and cries, casual frequencies and a few more sources...
Recorded with MD Sony, telephone, Zoom digital recorder with a stereo microphone and in-ear binaural condenser mics, Edirol R4 Pro and Rode Shot-Gun mic

RADIO-DOC///Crossings

Anti-Gone

Vulnerable Interlude

02 Disremembering Echo

Impro barbara de domincis/andrea serrapiglio

Vulnerable Interlude
(words by Barbara De Dominicis, music by Barbara De Dominicis & Simon Olivier)
Barbara De Dominicis -vocals , synths, sampling & programming
Marco Messina additional programming 
Simon Olivier aka Oliver Schlueter - guitar + additional programming 
Giacomo Pedicini - bass
Anne Starck - cello
Salvio Vassallo - drums

Vulnerable Interlude

Here I am
Wandering once again
Like a fallen blossom
Too fragile to stay still
Constantly undecided 
Between going and staying
Maybe this time……

The sky lays down its clouds
The tide still moves the moon
But I 'm still unsure

Don’t say a word……

Maybe this time
I’ll stay
My feet are cracked across
a season of grace
The life I had with you
 sinking after us 
like a watery image 

Your transparent fingers fading away…..

Electraschock feat. Marco Messina
(written and produced by barbara & marco)
part of the album 
Anti-Gone
[written and produced by barbara de dominicis]
and published by wm recordings (aug 2009)
more infos @ <a href="http://www.anti-gone.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.anti-gone.com</a>


Electraschock

Recuerdo part of the album Anti-Gone
written and produced by barbara
and published by wm recordings (aug 2009)
more infos www.anti-gone.com


Recuerdo

Me,Dea feat. Frame
part of the album anti-gone
written and produced by barbara
and published by wm recordings (aug 2009)



Me-Dea

PARALLEL_41 CD+DVD 
out soon on Baskaru 
http://www.baskaru.com/karu21.htm

Julia Kent cello, looping, effects, 
Barbara De Dominicis live manipulation, field recordings, voice 
Davide Lonardi : video reportage 
more infos @ www.par4llel.org

MP3 Unedited, Unmixed, Raw Audio Excerpts 
from PARALLEL_° 41 IMPRO-SESSIONS 
Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a record as 
Parallelo 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. __recording in interesting spaces-an abandoned tunnel, a farmhouse in piemonte, a fort outside venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations 
These recordings are an improvised interaction between Julia, Barbara, and the environmental element (with the complicity of Davide Lonardi). 
Having no planned structures, these "fragments" are intuitive musical conversations in the simplest of terms as we try to keep these "sessions" 
as spontaneous as possible.

all the materials unedited, unmixed, raw 
recorded between Alto Adige valley (Bozen) 
Marghera Fortress (Venice) 
Valdapozzo Farmhouse (Pimont) 
and Lanificio ex-wool factory (Naples) 
Multiple spaces (NYC) 
sometime between oct 2009 and aug 2010

more infos @ www.par4llel.org

Une Journeè d'un Sud Sans Soleil_Parallel_41-Julia Kent +Barbara De Dominicis+ visuals by D.L.

PARALLEL_41 CD+DVD 
out soon on Baskaru 
http://www.baskaru.com/karu21.htm

Julia Kent cello, looping, effects, 
Barbara De Dominicis live manipulation, field recordings, voice 
Davide Lonardi : video reportage 
more infos @ www.par4llel.org

MP3 Unedited, Unmixed, Raw Audio Excerpts 
from PARALLEL_° 41 IMPRO-SESSIONS 
Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a record as 
Parallelo 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. __recording in interesting spaces-an abandoned tunnel, a farmhouse in piemonte, a fort outside venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations 
These recordings are an improvised interaction between Julia, Barbara, and the environmental element (with the complicity of Davide Lonardi). 
Having no planned structures, these "fragments" are intuitive musical conversations in the simplest of terms as we try to keep these "sessions" 
as spontaneous as possible.

all the materials unedited, unmixed, raw 
recorded between Alto Adige valley (Bozen) 
Marghera Fortress (Venice) 
Valdapozzo Farmhouse (Pimont) 
and Lanificio ex-wool factory (Naples) 
Multiple space (NYC) 
sometime between oct 2009 and aug 2010

more infos @ www.par4llel.org


the Naked City__Impro_Parallel_41__Julia Kent +Barbara De Dominicis + visuals by Davide Lonardi

PARALLEL_41 CD+DVD 
out soon on Baskaru 
http://www.baskaru.com/karu21.htm

Julia Kent cello, looping, effects, 
Barbara De Dominicis live manipulation, field recordings, voice 
Davide Lonardi : video reportage 
more infos @ www.par4llel.org

MP3 Unedited, Unmixed, Raw Audio Excerpts 
from PARALLEL_° 41 IMPRO-SESSIONS 
Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a record as 
Parallelo 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. __recording in interesting spaces-an abandoned tunnel, a farmhouse in piemonte, a fort outside venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations 
These recordings are an improvised interaction between Julia, Barbara, and the environmental element (with the complicity of Davide Lonardi). 
Having no planned structures, these "fragments" are intuitive musical conversations in the simplest of terms as we try to keep these "sessions" 
as spontaneous as possible.

all the materials unedited, unmixed, raw 
recorded between Alto Adige valley (Bozen) 
Marghera Fortress (Venice) 
Valdapozzo Farmhouse (Pimont) 
and Lanificio ex-wool factory (Naples) 
Multiple space (NYC) 
sometime between oct 2009 and aug 2010


more infos @ www.par4llel.org

Illusory rendez vous_Impro_Parallel_41__Julia Kent +Barbara De Dominicis + visuals by Davide Lonardi

Mouth/eyesConvention_Impro_Parallel_41__Julia Kent +Barbara De Dominicis + visuals by Davide Lonardi

PARALLEL_41 CD+DVD 
out soon on Baskaru 
http://www.baskaru.com/karu21.htm

Julia Kent cello, looping, effects, 
Barbara De Dominicis live manipulation, field recordings, voice 
Davide Lonardi : video reportage 
more infos @ www.par4llel.org

MP3 Unedited, Unmixed, Raw Audio Excerpts 
from PARALLEL_° 41 IMPRO-SESSIONS 
Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a record as 
Parallelo 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. __recording in interesting spaces-an abandoned tunnel, a farmhouse in piemonte, a fort outside venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations 
These recordings are an improvised interaction between Julia, Barbara, and the environmental element (with the complicity of Davide Lonardi). 
Having no planned structures, these "fragments" are intuitive musical conversations in the simplest of terms as we try to keep these "sessions" 
as spontaneous as possible.

all the materials unedited, unmixed, raw 
recorded between Alto Adige valley (Bozen) 
Marghera Fortress (Venice) 
Valdapozzo Farmhouse (Pimont) 
and Lanificio ex-wool factory (Naples) 
Multiple spaces (NYC) 
sometime between oct 2009 and aug 2010


more infos @ www.par4llel.org


Filament du tunnel - Impro_Parallel_41 _Julia Kent +Barbara De Dominicis + visuals by Davide Lonardi

Live-Impro set @ valdapozzo AIR CHAMBER + GUESTS

IMPROV-LIVE-CONCERT @ CASCINA VALDAPOZZO - alessandria


AIR CHAMBER 3 (Andrea Serrapiglio, Luca Serrapiglio, Andrea X Ferraris)
+  Barbara De Dominicis

& GUESTS 

+
ALBERTO SERRAPIGLIO
+
Luca Mauri
+
GIANMARIA APRILE

& visuals
DAVIDE LONARDI


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