The Wound is the Place where the Light enters You

for six voices and electronics 
by Fernando Manassero - 2024/25

In the year 2084 the Global Ai has completely replaced human labor, but the machines have also realised they don't have to work for us and everything collapsed leaving behind a race of workers pushed to perpetual holidays. And there they are, wandering through beaches under a scorching sun, getting drunk and fighting for food, until they realise there's no help coming to rescue them. That in reality the heroe is the human collective. 

1. Amniotic
2. The Fool
3. I like this beach
4. Feral 
5. Affirmations

Premiered at ECLAT Festival 2025
Neue Vocal Solisten
Johanna Vargas, high soprano
Susanne  Leitz - Lorey, soprano 
Filippa Möres-Busch, alto
Martin Nagy, Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, Baritone
Andreas Fischer, Bass

Lyrics by Fernando Manassero, except Feral in collaboration with Bárbara Wapnarsky. 

Recorded live by Timo Kleinemeier
Mix and mastering by Fernando Manassero.

Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. 
With the support of Pro Helvetia. 

www.fernandomanassero.com
Watch the live performance with subtitles: https://youtu.be/wemPhlnxvhE

The Slow Cancellation of the Future

love songs (after Daft Punk) - 2024/25

(1) digital love (remix)
(2) interlude (bell)
(3) premonition (dream)
(4) hunted desires
(5) crushing heart
(6) something about us (redux)

Instrumentation — amplified flute (C & Bass), oboe / synthesizer, clarinet (Bb & Bass), accordion, cello + electronics & video

Year — 2024/25
Duration — 35'

Program notes — love songs (after Daft Punk) is a full-length audiovisual experience for amplified ensemble, electronics and video. In a genre-crossing narrative between ambient and experimental music, granular remixes of Daft Punk’s album Discovery merge with fragments from William Shakespeare’s poem Venus & Adonis — a statement on the present state of love and a reflection on death – suspended between post-romantic longing and pop-cultural dissolution.

Première — 31.01.25 Naxos Hallenkonzerte | Frankfurt (DE) — Ensemble S201

1 - digital love (remix)

2 - interlude (bell)

3 - premonition (dream)

4 - hunted desires

5 - crushing heart

6 - something about us (redux)

ꌗꀤꈤꁅꀎ꒒ꍏꋪꀤ꓄ꌩ ꒒ꂦꂦꉣꌗ
Electronic piece for acousmonium (stereo audio file)

Year — 2025
Duration — 09'10''
Première — tbd

Based on chaotic models, ꌗꀤꈤꁅꀎ꒒ꍏꋪꀤ꓄ꌩ ꒒ꂦꂦꉣꌗ oscillates between states of equilibrium and non-periodic phases, repetitions and sudden bifurcations. The result is a very organic, fluid, abstract and aggressive composition — a dystopian soundscape with maximalist textures fighting against each other, staggering from explosive bursts of percussive impacts to static but recurrent drones. Composed alongside ꋪꍟꉣꍟ꒒꒒ꀤꈤꁅ ꍏ꓄꓄ꋪꍏꉓ꓄ꂦꋪꌗ and ꂵꍏꁅꈤꍟ꓄ꀤꉓ ꃴꍟꉓ꓄ꂦꋪꌗ, ꌗꀤꈤꁅꀎ꒒ꍏꋪꀤ꓄ꌩ ꒒ꂦꂦꉣꌗ shares common musical elements but stands out as a downtempo composition, centered on different loops and spare but harsh cutting beats.

ꌗꀤꈤꁅꀎ꒒ꍏꋪꀤ꓄ꌩ ꒒ꂦꂦꉣꌗ

Recorded in the studio of the Hochschule der Künste Bern.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Benoît Piccand.
official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyKK1_psMM

Simon Steen Andersen - Difficulties putting it into practice [HYPER DUO]

an ensemble of experimental music founded by keyboard player Gilles Grimaitre & percussionist Julien Mégroz.