Purchase link: https://wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/interim

released December 14, 2020

Written and recorded between 2014 and 2017.

Subside, Interim: strings, recording and production by Emanuele Porcinai

How To Spell Your Name: recording and production by Emanuele Porcinai, contains a sample of "Tooth and Nail", written by Missy Mazzoli, as performed by Nadia Sirota, used courtesy of Bedroom Community.

Mixed and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai at Studio Distante, 2020.
Artwork by Elisabetta Porcinai (elisabettaporcinai.com)

Interim

Written, produced and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai at Studio Distante, Berlin, 2022.
© & ℗ Stray Signals - WSR, 2023
Artwork by Davide Luciani

Emanuele Porcinai’s work as WSR has alway sat to reconcile the contrasting worlds of electronically generated –and re-generated– sounds and physicality itself, integrating acoustic instruments within digital frameworks and allowing the virtual and the material to compenetrate each other. Released by Stray Signals, 'Dicasmia' is a new chapter in this research. By sculpting noises obtained through guitars, bass guitars and cellos, Porcinai has dug himself an introspective mine of aural ore posed to slowly sucking its surrounding space in. Melodies form from clouds of smoke riddled with literal heavy metals while impacts and scrapes form uneven percussive poems. The amassing layers of dissonance eventually favor the emergence of musicality and beauty, making for an eventually uplifting sonic venture that strives to exorcise the melancholy of separation.

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WSR - Dicasmia (STRAY011)

Written, produced and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai at Studio Distante, Berlin, 2022.
© & ℗ Stray Signals - WSR, 2023
Artwork by Davide Luciani

There’s a kind of struggle, a kind of restless undercurrent that has occupied electronic music since the advent of digital technologies. An enduring, unresolved tension that has informed many radical turns on the history of the genre. It’s the ever-puzzling relationship between electronically generated –and re-generated– sounds and physicality itself, between the virtualized engineering of sonic ecologies and the sensual, tangible presence of resonant bodies in material space. The ultimately virtual morphology of electronic music has always beautifully contrasted with its sensible immanence. The transposition of electro-acoustics in the digital realm has thus generated new strata of surreality and irreconcilable, though captivating, defiance, blooming in an interspace of emotional, sensual and intellectual activation.

Emanuele Porcinai’s work as WSR has alway sat at the centre of this very contradiction, functionally integrating acoustic –often self-built– instruments within digital frameworks and placing them in a continuum of non-representational happenings that allow the virtual and the material to compenetrate and contain each other, into each other’s aural ghosts. In his compositions, digital phenomena acquire a sense of concrete gravitas that confound their origins into hyperreality, while the tones and produced by corporeal interactions are pulverized, sublimated and re-solidified into emotive simulacra. This allows his music to occupy not one middle point between two evenly spaced opposites, rather a mutable arrangement of every possible combination of the solid and the abstract.

Licensed by Stray Signals, 'Dicasmia' is a new chapter in this research. Ditching the self-built contraptions for more “canonical” guitars, bass guitars and cellos, Porcinai has, through months of solitary and obsessive studio work, dug himself an introspective mine of aural ore posed to slowly sucking its surrounding space in. The tracks that compose the album feel like suspended on the event horizon of this double thrust, their densest components dilated and pierced by shards of contaminated harmony. Melodies form from clouds of smoke riddled with literal heavy metals while impacts and scrapes form uneven percussive poems. The amassing layers of dissonance eventually favor the emergence of musicality and beauty, making for an eventually uplifting sonic venture that strives to exorcise the melancholy of separation.

DICASMIA mix 1

Sore Fingers

Diel

Within These Walls

Hindered

Thrust

Aria

Flatwound

core of track 7 from Chambers (contort007)-https://boomkat.com/products/chambers-378e2144-d895-4020-947f-a713f92e535b

Exclave (Solo Voices)

Live take at Berlin Atonal /curated by Contort - Kraftwerk, Berlin, DE (23 Aug. 2015)

Presenting the Contort debut EP. Live instrumentation by Koenraad Ecker

All Your Lies • w/ Koenraad Ecker(Live at Berlin Atonal 2015)

from 'Chambers' (Contort - 2016) https://wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/chambers

Chambers

These Buildings Will Outlive Us

from 'Chambers' (Contort - 2016) wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/chambers

Astray

Broadcasted on NTS Radio Manchester on 21.01.18

WSR - These Buildings Will Outlive Us
Fred Brooks - Cotton Wool
Honey Stretton - The Rain Thief
WSR - All Your Lies
Justin Walter - 1001
Solid Void - Untitled
Transept - Happysburgh
Willow Street Roomers - This Is A Square Room
The Sprawl - Online Seance
Nh - Nihil
Teenage Carmine - Ghost Mercy Ribbon
Packt - Like A Colour
Marta De Pascalis - Emerso
Lozenger - Past The Post
Claudio Rocchetti - Northern Exposure
WSR - Exclave (Solo Voices)

NTS Radio - January 2018

released December 14, 2020

Purchase link: https://wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/interim

Written and recorded between 2014 and 2017.

strings, recording and production by Emanuele Porcinai

Mixed and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai in Marzahn, 2020.
Artwork by Elisabetta Porcinai (elisabettaporcinai.com)

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Subside

released December 14, 2020

Purchase link: https://wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/interim

Written and recorded between 2014 and 2017.

recording and production by Emanuele Porcinai, contains a sample of "Tooth and Nail", written by Missy Mazzoli, as performed by Nadia Sirota, used courtesy of Bedroom Community.

Mixed and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai in Marzahn, 2020.
Artwork by Elisabetta Porcinai (elisabettaporcinai.com)

How To Spell Your Name

released December 14, 2020

Purchase link: wsrstore.bandcamp.com/album/interim

Written and recorded between 2014 and 2017.

strings, recording and production by Emanuele Porcinai

Mixed and Mastered by Emanuele Porcinai in Marzahn, 2020.
Artwork by Elisabetta Porcinai (elisabettaporcinai.com)

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