I love this. Though, it does leave me wishing that Shakespeare had used the interrobang once.

The End of the Pandemic
In March 2021, a group of Stanford scientists reverse engineered the entire mRNA sequence for the Moderna Vaccine and posted it to the internet. It is thousands of cycles of GTAC, but it potentially allows scientists around the world to manufacture the vaccine for themselves, bypassing the prohibitive expense of the vaccine and ending the pandemic once and for all. It is a major hack/copyleft culture intervention, a crunch of language as material. I recorded  the entire sequence. Gary Barwin (distance) processed the reading into this sonic monsterpiece.

The End of Pan

Lukas Butkus — Solemn (text by Anthony Etherin)

2nd place at "Vox Juventutis" competition 2022

Performed by Vilnius municipal choir "Jauna Muzika" (cond. Vaclovas Augustinas)

Solemn

Sounds of Lithuania forest. Recorded at the end of 2013 summer. Feel free to download 44100 16 bit wav file.

Forest | Lithuania | Field recording

Body Maps
by Barbara De Dominicis


Body Maps has been inspired by Jean Luc Nancy’s Corpus.
These tracks evolved from a series of recording sessions held in Italy between 2019 and 2021.
A blend of spoken word, electroacoustic textures and instruments, found sounds and voice, these tracks evolved from a series of recording sessions held in Italy between 2018 and 2021. 
This release had a quite long incubation, almost two years and a half of tryouts, interruptions and afterthoughts to find a possible way to decipher this ineffable and particularly crucial moment of Barbara’s life.
The lyrics represent the attempt to transfigure the fragility into which her body was definitely sinking: a private emotional labyrinth made of abandonment, imperfection, vulnerability, time, alienation, sensuality, illness, identity. A sad and carnal quasi geography of the body, strongly related to a denied, (un)revealed, recovered sensuality.
Barbara wanted the music to preserve a sense of vulnerability and spontaneity therefore during the post production process she kept plenty of unvarnished sounds (teeth, fingers, mouth), half broken melodies, cracked words, ghostly echoes.
The generous musicians involved improvised following very subtle suggestions in the attempt to paint a picture in which everything is exposed to unexpected change; a kaleidoscope of sensations tied to disbelief, fear, and sudden absence.
The fluctuating vocal melodies fade into the electroacoustic interventions of Marco Bonini (electronics and guitar), Giulio Maschio (drums), Elio Martusciello (guitar, bass, synths, manipulations), Marco Messina (electronics), Massimiliano Sacchi (clarinets), Erica Scherl (violin), Andrea Serrapiglio (cello), Teho Teardo (guitar, piano, strings), and weaving languidly in and out, in a slow fragmented exploration that is sometimes painful, sometimes steady, sometimes disorienting.
A collective but gaunt architecture opened to mesmerizing sonic landscapes around which the body unfolds its maps
The artwork is curated by Raffaella Nappo. Her multifaceted artistic practice bridges distinct realms from drawing to painting, from photography to video and installation, blending analog and digital . Her work on Body Maps portrays a world of delicate images as the footprints of a rarefied, delicate but still intense inner world.
Body Maps has been endorsed by Marco Contini’s special and encouraging gaze.


to Alice



1. Mouth
Music by Erica Scherl, Marco Bonini, Barbara De Dominicis

2. Bones
Music by Teho Teardo, Massimiliano Sacchi, Barbara De Dominicis

3. Womb
Music by Elio Martusciello, Barbara De Dominicis

4. Heart Unbeaten
Lyrics inspired by Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
Music by Marco Messina, Barbara De Dominicis, Andrea Serrapiglio

5. Hands
Music by Marco Bonini, Barbara De Dominicis, Giulio Maschio,
Erica Scherl



Barbara De Dominicis
Out on Folderol Records 
With 
Barbara De Dominicis _ lyrics, voice, electronics, programming, found sounds
Marco Bonini _ guitars, electronics 
Elio Martusciello _ electronics, programming, mixing
Giulio Maschio _ drums 
Marco Messina _  electronics, programming , mixing
Massimiliano Sacchi _  bass clarinet
Erica Scherl  _ violin
Andrea Serrapiglio _  cello
David Stampfli  _ spoken voice 
Teho Teardo _  piano, guitar, strings, programming, mixing
Recorded and mixed by _ Marco Messina and Barbara De Dominicis 
@ Folder Studio - Naples, Italy
Additional recordings by Luca Gaudenzi and Antonio Romano 
@ Pyramid Studio -Rome, Italy
@Teho Teardo _Basement Studio _Rome
Mastered by Renato Grieco
Video illustrations and animation by Maria Pia Picozza 
Editing Pierluca Zanda
Drawings and artwork by Raffaella Nappo © 
Published by Marco Contini @ Folderol / Kappabit

5 HANDS

1 MOUTH

Field recording with Zoom H6 (xy mics)
Noviy Bor village, Tver region, Russia. May 2014. Early morning.

Noviy Bor Forest - Utrom (field recording)

Ghost Variables Live @ Eels Dreams Studio
Gary Barwin- reeds/vocals
Connor Bennett-reeds
Chris Palmer- guitar
David Lee- bass
Mike Hansen- percussion

Eel Dreams 

Timelines NY

A new journey in collaboration. We start here, and we go where we go. Hope you enjoy.

Composition 1 In Three Breaths

Servants of Dust (Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-20)  "Songs notice./Songs do not notice." A musical setting of my book of the punctuation of Shakespeare's sonnets (published by No Press) set to music.

Sonnets 1-20 by Gary Barwin

I put this together from a folder of tracks i gathered for a  "Natural Selection" themed DJ set supporting The Grubby Mitts at Cecil Sharp House in London in November....  It's a mix of newish and very old tracks + some birds, whales & bees ... listen at leisure... the moon belongs to everyone...

The Moon Belongs To Everyone (a natural selection) DJ mix

"Bone Poem" performance by Penn Kemp from her book TRANCE FORM.

Penn Kemp - Trance Form, Live At U Of A, February 18, 1977 (1)

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist and educator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of 20 books of fiction and poetry. He received a PhD in Music Composition from SUNY at Buffalo. http://garybarwin.com

Sonnets 1-20 by Gary Barwin

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