Hydria

Flumen Cineris

Giloh

Electronic soundscape created with found sounds of pottery processed electronically with granular and side-chained delays, Moog Grandmother semi-modular synth, reverbs and other sample manipulation techniques. Cover and material by Arya Ceramics.

Potterism

"There was a dream, a real dream in an unreal universe. A consciousness is moving in this continuously mutating dimension, floating in a sensorial jungle, full of any type of creatures, changing mountains and blu-purple liquids lighter than air. A door handle is heard, someone or something is trying to escape this universe or to enter? Stuck forever in an ultra-dimensional glitch."

A sensorial spatial exploration in a mysterious and distant land, a journey into an intrinsically extraneous space, a nature pervaded by an alien presence. A remote place where you find mutating plants and animals, moving in a stereo dimension with electric winds and auroras, stargates, time portals and doorways, but also full of glitches, 'bugs' and corrupted signals, a very distorted universe.

Cover art by Korpa.

Doorway to Ganymede

Big band jazz piece inspired by Mondrian’s painting ‘Broadway Boogie Woogie’.

The piece develops Mondrian’s concept of geometric structure in music. Through a mirroring process, I applied a similar modular approach using the jazz architecture of the 'rhythm changes'.


Stepping harmonies and melodic chromatic modules imitate in music Mondrian's lines and colours. The chords move chromatically and melodic lines are organised in blocks. Broadway is a full of energy and colours with neons, artificial night lights and substances that stimulate all senses, an ‘altered’ perception of reality and a dimension that connects us to our inner feelings.

To make this music portrait, I used the 'alterations' of jazz as you can hear in the long 'full band solo' before the last theme and in the finale. Here, these music lines and squares are altered, representing the thin boundaries of harmony and colours. 

Music performed by The Bauhaus Band feat. Vinnie De Luca on drums, recorded in Silk Street Concert Hall (London, UK).

Broadway Boogie Woogie (Bauhaus Festival 2022)

An ambient track created through a data sonification process of bio-metric signals from plants. This work wants to show how unheard and unseen signals can affect the audible.

Gravitropism is the process of the growth of roots and shoots toward or away from the direction of gravity. We are surrounded by deep mechanistic processes of nature which we don't often notice or 'hear', small sounds and electric inputs that fall outside the range of human experience. A universe of signals that can generate a whole new universe of sounds. This musical work wants to offer a sort of more 'tactile', 'audible' link to these small natural energies that surround us but that are unheard without the use of technology.

I performed this piece in a live electronic set in Ruskin Park (London), improvising with a small acoustic ensemble (violin, cello, trombone) for the event Music For Parks.

The process: data sonification of bio-metric signals from plants. I built an Arduino device that converts the bio-metric signals into midi signals which can be used in any synth (analog or digital). I edited and installed a code of more than 700 lines. This code also needed 5 other libraries to be installed and a special java driver (if used on pc/Mac).

Gravitropism

Short tribute in the style of the old classic first-person shooter video games.

Gotta Get Out

Electronic track made with synths (Vermona, Moog, Arturia) and biometric plant data sonification device.

Cycle of Stone

Aquarium is the first part of the Planet Cycle trilogy. 

The Planet Cycle is a concept work of three short electro-acoustic albums composed by Danilo Ricci, each of them divided in four movements.

The Electric Earth Orchestra mixes orchestral textures with sounds generated by plants through self-built data sonification devices, to bring their unheard, constant activity and soul into music.

https://electricearthorchestra.weebly.com

Mov. IV - Death

Mov. III - War of Water

Mov. II - Man

Mov. I - Birth

Terrarium is the second part of the Planet Cycle trilogy.

The Planet Cycle is a concept work of three short electro-acoustic albums composed by Danilo Ricci, each of them divided in four movements.

The Electric Earth Orchestra mixes orchestral textures with sounds generated by plants through self-built data sonification devices, to bring their unheard, constant activity and soul into music.

electricearthorchestra.weebly.com

Sound design by Danilo Ricci & Cush.

Mov. IV - Death (Requiem Of The Trees)

Terrarium is the second part of the Planet Cycle trilogy.

The Planet Cycle is a concept work of three short electro-acoustic albums composed by Danilo Ricci, each of them divided in four movements.

The Electric Earth Orchestra mixes orchestral textures with sounds generated by plants through self-built data sonification devices, to bring their unheard, constant activity and soul into music.

electricearthorchestra.weebly.com

Mov. III - War

guitarist | composer | sound designer | producer

Nilo Ricci

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