"Il maggior impegno che oggi uno scrittore può affrontare è quello dell’isolamento, della solitudine. Nella misura in cui saprà sopportare isolamento e solitudine, non sarà solo e non sarà isolato. Può sembrare un paradosso, ma non lo è. […] Io me ne accorgo, di non essere solo, di non essere isolato – anche se sempre più apparirò solo e isolato."
[Leonardo Sciascia, da articolo su "L’Ora", 2 marzo 1979]
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"Island Blues", sound piece (qui in riduzione stereofonica a 2 canali).
Primo allestimento: GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo, 2010.

In "Vortex Temporum", il francese Gerard Grisey ha preso un gesto sonoro da "Daphnis et Chloé" di Ravel come punto di partenza per esplorare la sensazione stessa del tempo in musica, la temporalità: un'opera complessa e d'impatto viscerale, con una forte qualità narrativa. Similmente, in questo mio "Island Blues" ho preso un frammento da "Vortex Temporum" come punto di partenza per raccontare di solitudine e isolamento, con anche altri oggetti sonori 'ready-made' dalla mia memoria personale, trasformati fino al punto in cui io stesso non sono più in grado di riconoscerne l'origine sonora. Il risultato di questo processo è un viaggio di trasformazione tra realtà interiore ed esterna, attraverso paesaggi sonori che diventano un labirinto onirico di memorie e reperti archetipici. Una nota finale di speranza porta avanti il viaggio, sotto forma dell'unico suono riconoscibile come "naturale" nell'intera opera. Quando ho immaginato e realizzato quest'opera, nel 2010, non sapevo che la storia e l'esperienza che racconta sarebbero diventate vissuto collettivo 10 anni dopo, durante una pandemia (un vissuto che oggi abbiamo 'dimenticato', com'è evidente dalle catastrofi attuali...).
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© Gianluca Cangemi | Almendra Music – SACEM. All rights reserved.

ISLAND BLUES

QUADRI_ Giovanni Verga, Ariele Caltabiano:

1.Quadro#1 03:56 2.Quadro#2 04:27 3.Quadro#3 04:27 4.Quadro#4 04:01 5.Quadro#5 02:22 6.Quadro#6 00:56 7.Quadro#7 04:23

"Quadri", the first album of Fieldoscope-recordings, is an extemporary composition by Giovanni Verga and Ariele Caltabiano. In this work, drones and soundscape-recordings are played through speakers placed inside the soundboard of an upright piano to take advantage of its resonance and to bring an homogenous sound together with the piano played and the acoustics of the room. 
Last piece is a mixture of field-recordings from Etna Vulcano and Tiergarten park, an homage to the lands where both artists come from (Sicily) and live in (Berlin). 

Giovanni Verga: piano, electronic
Ariele Caltabiano: drones, soundscapes

released June 25, 2014 

https://fieldoscope.bandcamp.com/album/quadri

Artwork by Graziella Russo. 




Quadri

"QUADRI" Giovanni Verga, Ariele Caltabiano

AVOIDING THE SUN:

1.Nystagmus 2.Radius 3.Anfiscopia 4.Smellscape 5.Res Extensa 6.Circumferencia nusquam 7.Antisfera 8.Cosmotheandric

Second album of the italian electroacustic italian duo based in Berlin:
Giovanni Verga : electronics, keyboards 
Gianni Gebbia: Bb soprano saxophone 

With the multimedia work "Avoiding The Sun" CUPIS explores the boundaries between organic sounds and repetitive musical structures represented by the visuals that build up undiscovered and mysterious ways to reveal the obscure sides of what nature hides.
The saxophone is sampled in a dimension where the sound sources (electronic and acoustic) are blended and merged with the images in a Fata Morgana or cosmic mirage.

Sara Picco ( videos )

released September 21, 2015 
Recorded at Quadrupidus Studios Berlin 2015 
Sound engineer and mastering by Giovanni Verga 
Produced by Objet-a in collaboration with Fieldoscope recordings Berlin 2015



Avoiding the Sun

"AVOIDING THE SUN" Cupis

Released May 2, 2017 

Sam Rouanet: guitar and effects 
Giovanni Verga: computer, no input mixer, Korg Ms20 and selfmade music-box 

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Rouanet and Giovanni Verga @ Ivory Tower Studio in Berlin

Les particules dissimulées

Les Particules Dissimulées_snippet by Sam Rouanet and Giovanni Verga

Métaphysiques cannibales, which is out June 1st 2018 through Weird Ear and Kohlhaas, comes in a 300 copies edition on black vinyl, featuring cover artwork by Matteo Castro. 
credits
releases June 1, 2018 

Recorded from 2013 through 2016 in San Francisco and Catanzaro by Collin McKelvey and Attilio Novellino

Métaphysique Cannibales  - Novellino/McKelvey - Side A

Micrographía

Thanos Chrysakis - piano
Ernesto Rodrigues - viola
Guilherme Rodrigues - cello
Abdul Moimême - electric guitar
Miguel Mira - double bass

Micrographía

1.  Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere
2. Sugai Ken - Wakihi
3. Tomoko Sauvage - Clepsydra
4. Roger Tellier Craig - Soleile Et Chaleur Dans Le Parc (excerpt)
5. Walter Zimmerman - Stille Tänze Riuti
6. Mark Templeton - One Last Encore
7. Giuseppe Ielasi  - Forthcoming Untitled
8. Alessandro Bosetti - Advertencia (El Silbo Gomero)
9. Paul De Marinis - Fonetica Francesa
10. Mike Kitcher - Amabele O-O
11. Carl Stone - Dong Il Jang
12. Jason Grier - Demonstration Disc 5
13. Jake Meginsky - Fourth Gate
14. Phil Struck - CCLT
15. Andrew Pekler - Cricket Steps
16. Nicola Ratti - L2
17. Seekersinternational - Run Come Test
18. Steve Shehan - Sticks And Stones
19. Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming
20. Maggie Payne - Gamelan
21. Ahnnu - Daydream Blink Edit
22. Andrew Pekler - Water Particles

Resonant Night

This is an extract from KREMS (radio wave portrait)composition.  This composition is made by radio waves and natural radio phenomenas which I recorded during my artist residency in Austria in 2016. This is a part of my ongoing "radio waves portrait" project which started in 2014.

Krems (Radio wave portrait) Extract

In Sylphic, his second solo album, a sublunary sphere is imagined. According to geocentric cosmologies, this region of the cosmos from the center of the Earth to the moon, was believed to be comprised of the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water). These four elements were identified by Aristotle, as the elements of bodies that are also subject to generation and corruption. Sylphic is inspired by this vision as a starting point for the construction of an eerie and intimate sound world.

released March 23, 2018 

Edited by © Unexplained Sounds Group. 
Music: Giovanni Verga 
Cover artwork: Christian Voyce

Sylphic

Sylphic_Giovanni Verga_snippet

SEVEN BLACK NOTES (2018)

Hypothesis

hypothesis

Hypothesis_Giovanni Verga:Snippet

Fieldoscope is a label founded by Giovanni Verga in 2014 specialized in releasing Experimental music, including Electro-Acustic, Ambient and Noise.


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