Lo-fi industrial nightmares and other sinister dreamscapes of a dead city.

With his first solo project, HAND, Sascha Bachmann combines tape loops and moving images to create contrast with the fast, loud world we live in, forging space for emotions, self-reflection, calmness and also excitement.

On ​Reveal (his 2nd Album),​ Sascha Bachman, aka ​HAND​, has created a unique balance of classic ambient music, sounds and musical figures that touch the edge of melody and harmony, and a just-above-subliminal pulse. These elements come together in a sound world that is in turn comforting and haunting. ​Reveal's​ surface may be gentle, but the music reaches deep, starting with the stratospheric heights of “God Only Knows,” to the galactic distances of “Into the Void,” and concluding with “Poem for Tanja,” a nostalgic poem for magnetic tape.

ITALIAN SOUNDSCAPES ARCHIVE
 

 "And only through music that Luomo can find the genuine harmony between your inner world and outer world to him. Into the music Man will create models of that perfect ideal soundscape that lives in his imagination "R.Murray Schafer.

AIPS - Italian Archive Soundscapes is a collective of Italian soundscapers. The "soundscape" definition introduced by R. Murray Schafer is like an "unfinished symphony and without which we are simultaneously shaped the composers, performers and listeners."

The purpose of the group is promoting Soundscapes Culture and italian soundscapers, performers / musicians who compete in live electronics and create visual art installations related to the concept of soundscape composition.
The possibilities are many and have natural ties with contemporary art, mixed media, web 2.0 etc.. Therefore the work of promoting the AIPS moves from one side through an online reporting of all work performed soundscaping in Italy, first proposed by the ad hoc workshops and performance events.

Being part of AIPS is to participate actively in the planning, promotion and realization of moments related to the theme of the soundscape. 


BECOME A MEMBER OF AIPS

Simply send an email to present the activities carried out concerning the soundscape and its own related project (realized or not is not important) that will become part of the Archive section of our site.

To see who currently make up the roster just enter the section ROSTER



 

SOUNDSCAPE, AN INVISIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE, CONTINUOSLY CHANGING...

 
World Soundscapes are continuosly changing, mainly in large urban areas, especially in big cities. The soundscape is an 'invisible and immaterial cultural heritage',  changing due to disparate factors as the level of human settlement and succession of natural phenomena.

Ecology deals with the relationship between living organisms and their habitats or environments that allow their survival. for each species of living organism we talk about a specific ecology and as we refer to the field of sound perception, we speak of Ecology of Sound; (The term "Acoustic Ecology" is currently still under investigation by way of definition of the discipline and the result compromise between the various researchers, acoustic, soundesigners the globe).

The general deterioration of life on our planet has worsened the quality of human life from the perspective of the soundscape. Some speak of a crisis of the soundscape with several similarities to phenomena as widely known as the extinction of rare species, the shrinking factor of biodiversity among the continents, global pollution.

We identify into this deterioration two 'urgencies': the necessity to improve the quality of human life contrasting so-called phenomena of noise pollution and trying to promote and increase public awareness about it. At the same time, however AIPS studies acoustic changes, positive and negative because there is no doubt about an innate anthropological value and therefore the aesthetics of the soundscape is redefined. AIPS tries to do an outdated snapshot "photo" of this continuos redefinition creating online digital archives and elaborating results from an artistic point of view, scientific, contemporary.

The value of certain ethnomusicological sound archives (purely musical To be honest) needs to be renewed, to give space to new methodologies. AIPS wants from this point of view, recreating the anthropological sense of musicological research connected to the storage through: web 2.0, collaborative work between musicians and researchers throughout the country that is coordinated and supported institutionally.

Creating an archive of the soundscape Italian would be an invaluable asset. Using an oxymoron, the collective soundscapers Italian, wants to give "visibility" to the cultural invisible through the creation of a sound archive of the national landscape, then combine a single site all projects that deal with research and the study of the above, workshops and festivals.

For this reason we need sound designers, or musicians, acousticians, anthropologists and all those interested in the study of the soundscape as the roster of AIPS in order to propose solutions to a useful improvement.

FRANCESCO GIANNICO & ALESSIO BALLERINI
Coordinators  of Aips
http://www.archivioitalianopaesaggisonori.it

Dutch based independent record label, webshop, event organisation and more... Founded in 2004. Focus is on free spirited music in the traditions of elektro-wave & post-punk,  ambient & experimental folklore and (post-)techno & off radar dance music. Posted here are full track previews of (upcoming) records, podcasts/dj mixes and other stuff label related...

Oak editions is an independent music art label owned and managed by the ambient artists Francesco Giannico & Alessio Ballerini. It is mainly focused on the promotion and diffusion of electroacoustic, soundscape and ambient texture. The project was born two years after we had founded the Italian Soundscapes Archive also called A.I.P.S. (Archivio Italiano Paesaggi Sonori). In this website you may also find an online CD & Digital Download Store supporting the works and projects of the artists that belong to the label. The CD & Download orders are carried out safely and easily by PayPal. Our main feature is to produce special limited editions with very refined artworks and packagings. We give the possibility to buy our releases both in digital and physical format . The physical format is obviously more complete, behind a release there's a study of the concept, designed to know how to impress it on the artwork and how to produce the package too.

KINETIK LABORATORIES try to enlighten the darkest corners of the unexplored musical universe, creating electronic machines in continuous growth to generate an extreme musical language.

Sound artist and musician who has worked within soundscape and sound-ecology boundaries since 2009/10. He immerses himself in the phenomenon of magnetism with unrestrained curiosity and regularly wrestles surprising insights out of it. In our current era of hyperspecialization, he can truly be called a universal scholar, his qualifications range from photography and visual arts to a PhD in food technology all the way to a wide range of professional experience. All this has sharpened his analytical view, which he has focussed for some time now on the potential of sound. His research is related to the study of resonant surfaces in the field, degradation processes and the limit/interferences of each device used to record or reproduce sound.

In 2016, with Enrico Malatesta and Glauco Salvo, he founded MU, an independent association devoted to sound experiences, acting as a listening platform to develop and bring fresh and smart workshops, listening sessions, gigs and conferences. In 2022, he joined MAGMA, developing the Elementi series and other events in his area.
In 2023 with Carolina Martines, he founded Manticora Editions, an ongoing project which is a mixtape label and a shell of different sound proposals in progress, created together or individually by the two artists.

He released from several labels like Kohlhaas, Dinzu Artefacts, Sucata Tapes/Discrepant, Archive Officielle, Ftarri, Consumer Waste, Crónica and others.
From 2014 he played in venues like Cafe OTO, Macao, Standards, Confine Aperto, Spectrum, Cafe Kino, Cave 12, Spettro, Tempo Reale, MART, OOR, Klappfon, Area Sismica, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, KNOT Gallery, and festivals like Storüng, Ravenna Festival, NODE, Transmissions, Path, Detritus Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, La Digestion, A L’Arme!, Angelica, Lost Festival.

Artist in Residence at: Hotel Pupik (Austria, 2015), Khora /Syros Film Festival (Greece, 2015), Forte Marghera /Venice (Italy, 2015), Apache4 /Milan (Italy, 2017), Tempo Reale /Florence (Italy, 2018), GMEA /Albi (France, 2019), Hangar /Barcelona (Spain, 2020), Q-O2 /Bruxelles (Belgium, 2021), EMS /Stockholm (Sweden, 2022), Marosi /Stromboli (Italy, 2022), CAMP/Aulus-les-Bains (France, 2023).

You cannot find him on social media, just take a look at his website or his Bandcamp. Or drop him an email :)

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