Dararat Chemnasiri  -  Alto Sax
King  Imagine  -    soundscapes

King Imagine & Dararat Chemnasiri - Dream Melody

An interlude.

Enjoy!

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

In fact, I'll be staying in tonight

Klangfühler

Crangon

itwasthewires : modular synthesizers
Marco Lucchi : found sounds, Mellotron, synthesizer and mix down

26 agosto 2020

itwasthewires & Marco Lucchi - Charlotte [first encounter]

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

Sleepless

Rocco Saviano : electric guitar
Henrik Meierkord : cello and double bass
Marco Lucchi : analog synth

26 novembre 2020

for the Naviar Haiku project
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

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Magnolia in full bloom…
But waking I find
a chill November morning

John Hinks

Rocco Saviano, Henrik Meierkord & Marco Lucchi - Magnolia [Naviar Haiku # 360]

King Imagine: bowed cymbals, metal objects - 
Bruno Gussoni: shakuhachi

King Imagine  &  Bruno  Gussoni  -  Rust

Sorg

'Piano Patterns n.16' by https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi
Sonopoetry and mixing by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
Pic by IB: Naxos 2018, Portara Temple of Apollo

Three Movements for Solo Mind 
(poem by IB from About Sounds About Us)
I.
In the realm of the mind
the smallest degrees of possibility
are not discrete, they stand continuous.

II.
There are absences that
break and sever, for certain objects 
are untouchable, intangible.

If you are not, I do not exist.

III.
Birds will be ready soon
upon the field.
Migrating is the promise of return.

They burnt our homeland down. 
We flew away.

(Italian)
I.
Nel regno della mente
i più piccoli gradi di possibilità
non sono discreti, appaiono continui.

II.
Ci sono assenze che
spezzano e recidono, alcuni oggetti 
sono intoccabili, intangibili.

Se tu non sei, io non esisto.

III.
Gli uccelli si stanno preparando 
nel campo.
la migrazione è promessa di ritorno.

Hanno bruciato la nostra terra. 
Siamo volati via.

3 Movements For Solo Mind On Piano Patterns N°16 (M.Lucchi&I.Boffa)

a rework from Mean Flow of a track by Marco Lucchi

febbraio 2021

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Rajasthan

Poetry, Field recording and the More-Than-Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call MoreThanHuman Human era -from sapiens sapiens to MoreThanHuman Human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why More-Than-Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core and the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/