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Nella terra nell'acqua (literally in the earth, in the water) is a free improvisation fluxus studio-recorded in December 2017. It's Performed by two Ensemble Collettivo Crisis musicians, Pietro Frigato at the Electric Guitars (with several preparations) and Marco Bussi at live electronics. In this piece, live electronics picks up the sound of the guitar and use it for a granular synthesis process. "Nella terra nell'acqua" is a dialectical counterpoint between the “real” sound of the guitar and the mirrored one, elaborated by the granular synthesizer. The evocative image in the title refers to the banks of a muddy river where the earth blends with the water and there's a no proper, precise border. 

E-Guitar: Pietro Frigato
Live Electronics: Marco Bussi

Padua, December 2017.

Nella terra nell'acqua / In the earth in the water

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Origine di Daleth, brano per pianoforte e live electronics, è l’analisi spettrale di un accordo complesso sottoposto ad un processo di distorsione e delle risonanze che da questo suono emergono nel corso del suo decadimento. L’idea generatrice che regola lo sviluppo del brano è l’analisi di porzioni sempre più ristrette la cui durata viene enormemente dilatata. Come in una lente d’ingrandimento temporale questo processo permette la concretizzazione della miriade di movimenti sonori costitutivi della natura del suono che sono fondamentali per la percezione acustica stessa. L’emersione delle componenti percettive più nascoste viene definita dai fenomeni di risonanza del pianoforte estesi attraverso l’uso del live electronics. Daleth è un brano che indaga le ramificazioni del suono che emergono da un gesto generativo per mezzo delle risonanze intrinseche nel suono stesso. È un luogo di confine la cui natura oscilla ambiguamente tra linearità e circolarità, tra analisi sonora e condensazione gestuale. È la ramificazione del delta prima che il fiume sfoci nel mare oppure la porta attraverso cui il mare s’infiltra nella terra.

"Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Dālet , Hebrew 'Dālet ד, Aramaic Dālath , Syriac Dālaṯ, and Arabic Dālد. The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door."

Daleth is a piece for Piano and Live Electronics composed by Pietro Frigato and Marco Bussi of Ensemble collettivo crisis. Live electronics pick up the sound of the piano and elaborate it through a Maxmsp patch formed by sixteen resonant filters. A specific frequency is assigned to each filter and  the pack of frequencies changes through the piece as wrote in the score. In this way live electronics acts like the piano “sostenuto pedal” emphasizing a selected group of frequencies. In fact in daleth we created a dialog between the sostenuto pedal and the “electronic” sostenuto pedal. The formal path is inspired by the delta of the river, by a happening/object/situation growing wider (modules growing longer, strong crescendo gestures).We composed this piece analyzing the spectrum of a distorted electric guitar chord and working on the dialectic between the main frequencies and harmonic partials (that are introduced in the first descending arpeggio) and the secondary  frequencies, inharmonic partials and noises due to the distortion effect. Daleth is a modular composition, indeed it's formed by six modules that can be performed in different orders. The title is a reference to the formal path and a formal path itself. 

Composed by Pietro Frigato and Marco Bussi.

Pianoforte: Marco Bussi
Live Electronics: Pietro Frigato

Daleth

Recorded in Salvaterra - Italy
Feb 18 2019

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Ensemble Collettivo Crisis borns in the 2012 as an answer to the economical and cultural crisis. We research in the fields of the improvvisation and new/contemporary classical music.

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