The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt, for cello duo (2019)
Recording of a reading session at the University of York, June 2021.
Gaia Blandina and Ali Baumann (The Chimera Ensemble).

This piece is part of my research on Luminance as a semantic dimension of timbre.

The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt (2019) [reading session] | Michele Abondano

Requiem

Better wait a while, you're all hysterical.
Better wait a while, you're all hysterical.
You'll pardon me, but my time is limited.
You'll pardon me, I trust.
Do not come here.  We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us.
Do not come here.  We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
So dead!
So dead!
We're in some sort of a force field… tremendously powerful… holding us right here.
Stop playing with toys!  We have a weapon that’s much more potent than that!
So dead!
So dead!
All right everybody!  Come and get it!  Breakfast's ready!  Hot coffee, hard tack, and vitamin pills!
As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?  Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Weep.
You weep.  
You weep.
Oh I see one!  It's a monster!  Oh no, it's me!
You weep.
Isn't that silly?  My own reflection.
You weep.
Oh I see one!  It's a monster!  Oh no, it's me!
You weep.
Isn't that silly?  My own reflection.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?  Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?  
You'll pardon me, I trust.
You weep.
You weep. 
You weep.
You weep.

You Weep / Mass Killing

Spectro perfectam statera (a long mix with an end)

You Promised is composed by Jane Johnson.

You Promised

Carefree

Fast Dance In My Brain By Katarina Jovcevska 15 - 02 - 2022 02 - 57

There are in the French lyrics some subtle references to Brel.

Malheureusement tout peut s'oublier, c'est tellement facile...
Oublier le temps qu'on s'est fait tromper, c'est tellement pénible...
Pour les vrais truands c'est jamais assez horrible.
Tas de riz tentant, tas de rats tentés.
Mais il faut bien causer pour marchander le prix du sang.
Diplomacie: Je me demande ce qu'on vient faire ici.
Et quand vient le soir, pour qu'un ciel flamboie,
il faut bombarder tous ceux qui ne croient pas.
Tas de riz tentant, tas de rats tentés, c'est tellement horrible.
J'ai perdu mon temps à vouloir sauver les cibles.

Diplomacie

A sonic meditation on family, heritage, and the continuum of generational memory.

This EP carries forward the themes and textures of ShaktiMan, released on Chitra Records in March 2025

Produced and mixed by Alexander Bin (BinJa)
Mastered by Alexander Bin
Cover picture by Alexander Bin
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev

Spectro perfectam statera (a long mix with an end)

Ducks In Vertigo