'Collaborative Works' is a 4h journey (in progress) that celebrates the experimental artists whom I am lucky to collaborate with and that I am grateful for.

If you are brave enough to dedicate 4h of your time to active listening, well ... I hope you'll enjoy the experience.

I left the 24'33'' collective sonic live performance 'Atomico Silenzio' at the very end. I recommend taking a short break before engaging into this. The last 4'33'' of silence you'll experience are the homage to John Cage we collectively performed during the final part of that live session.

Collaborative Works

Taranom

my listenings during this month

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in copertina Harold Budd

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2021)

the pieces I made (or which I have been involved in) during January 2021

(2021) January works

the pieces I made (or which I have been involved in) in 2021

hugs to the friends and colleagues that helped me to keep the music flowing

31 dicembre 2021

(2021) works

New & hot: Classical

Schindler's List is the original soundtrack, on the MCA label, of the 1993 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film Schindler's List starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Caroline Goodall. The original score and songs were composed by John Williams, and features violin player Itzhak Perlman.

The album won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for "Best Original Score" and the Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television". It was also nominated for a Golden Globe.
Track listing

   1. "Theme from Schindler's List" – 4:15
   2. "Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto - Winter '41)" – 4:40
   3. "Immolation (With Our Lives We Give Life)" – 4:44
   4. "Remembrances" – 4:20
   5. "Schindler's Workforce" – 9:08
   6. "Oyf'n Pripetshok / Nacht Aktion" – 2:56
   7. "I Could Have Done More" – 5:52
   8. "Auschwitz-Birkenau" – 3:41
   9. "Stolen Memories" – 4:20
  10. "Making The List" – 5:11
  11. "Give Me Your Names" – 4:55
  12. "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold)" – 2:17
  13. "Remembrances" – 5:17
  14. "Theme from Schindler's List" – 2:59

 Not on the soundtrack

Other tracks that appear in the film, but not in the soundtrack are the famous tango "Por Una Cabeza" by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera, the German schlager "Im Grunewald ist Holzauktion" by Otto Teich and the German marching song Erika (Auf der Heide blueht ein kleines Bluemelein) by Herms Niel.


Schindler's List

من موسيقات الأفلام : لا لا لاند ، تايتانيك و شيندلرز ليست
(La La Land, Titanic & Schindler's list ) all in one track

Violin : Ahmed Mounib 
Konterbass : Karim Adnan
Piano & rearrangement : George Kolta

La La Land, Titanic & Schindler's list (cover: Ahmed Mounib & the group)

Original composition by Michael Ortega. The original name is "It's Hard to Say Goodbye".

You can buy the music sheets at Michael Ortega's website: http://www.michaelspianosongs.com/

Sad Piano

Thank you so much to https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia (Mario Sboarina)for his piece, a study for poetry sonorization, which inspired my sonopoem of the same title.

Music https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia
Sonopoem https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
Cover ph by IB: Naxos, Greece, 2018

'Overshadowed

Let me tell you about becoming Earth
Gentle, gentle, gentle

Nothing familiar, everything embraced
No territory, no identity

The swaying grass, the riverbank
The boughs of the oak

There are new collective imaginings
Overshadowed

There are new collective imaginings
Overshadowed

There are new collective imaginings
Overshadowed'

Overshadowed Mario Sboarina&Ilaria Boffa

This is episode 1 of a podcast series called Electroacoustical Poetical Society by https://soundcloud.com/vanwindmill

https://thattuesday.libsyn.com/electroacoustical-poetical-society-episode-1

It includes my poems Less and Reset:
Less

Where is the forest? What is a forest?
I yearned for it and made my bed beside it
I became a forest, I trusted you

Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth
The dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, they contribute
To over 70 % of the biosphere

I thought I could finally decompose
Into many layers and fertilise
Dispersed and useful

Utility. Does this matter? One gets rid of futility and
People do not value useless stuff. Why do you keep it?
It’s meaningless

Some terms ending in less are 
Underestimated. I praise the words
Fearless, unless, endless, speechless 

And helpless instead. They speak of the forest. I trusted you
When we spoke of the forest. The gigantic unknown
We might inhabit together

The forest floor, the understory, the canopy
Perhaps it is happening elsewhere
In another part of the forest

Reset

Maybe we just needed to stay put
To let dolphins swim in the lagoon
Again, to slash nitrogen dioxide
They call it the largest scale 
Experiment ever
The largest scale lesson 
Will we learn. Will we reset.
In the Anthropocene the end of
The world already happened
And this is a second chance.
There is not another part of the
Forest.

pic Croatia 2019

Another Part of the Forest (Marjorie Van Halteren & Ilaria Boffa)

Music, mixing and production by https://soundcloud.com/peteswinton
Sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa

pic provided by Pete, woman in Northern Ireland fighting with the British army and killed just after the photo was taken.

Reflecting on modern times, the Milgram experiment 20, the moral dilemma between obedience and subjectivity and nonviolent resistance.

'Till I tell you to stop

Till I tell you to stop. Stop, continue, press and pause, stop. 

Wrong. 2006, 2019, 2036 continue please, I take the responsibility.
Continue please, till I tell you to do so.
Stop, continue, press and pause, stop.

Obedience, the comfort zone of instructions.
A more humane surrounding, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles reduce 
combat stress. They call it the era of instrumental massacres or
the semiosis of killing.
It’s more humane to slaughter this way. 
Kneel on the necks or get in good trouble. 
Subjectivity.

Continue please, till I tell you to do so.
Stop, continue, press and pause, stop. Kill?
Continue please.'

Till I Tell You To Stop (Ilaria Boffa & Pete Swinton)

Music, mixing and production by https://soundcloud.com/p-e-n-i-n-s-o-l-a-r
Please check on Bandcamp the full album with various  collaborations: https://peninsolar.bandcamp.com/album/in-between-obfuscate-coordinates

My sonopoem 'Coordinates' refers to the book 'Objective Becoming' by Bradford Skow, prof of Philosophy at MIT on the comparison of different theories of time, spacetime, robust passage and experiences.

'Coordinates
Time does not pass, we pass through time
In stages or blocks and become
Spatially and temporally scattered we 
Have experiences at other places
Inaccessible to us here and
At other times unavailable to us now
Yours and my P1 and P2 positions extend
How fast do we pass?
Can we reminisce about the things to come?
Flashes in between coordinates
Perhaps glitches in the protocol or
Ultra-rational diagrams
Have been and not yet spiral and interchange.
Time-biased preferences are falsifiable
One life is better than another if and only if
The total amount of pleasure minus
the total amount of pain in the first life
Is greater than the corresponding quantity
In the second one.
Can sacrifice change the perspective?
And if I live with you n latitudes and
Longitudes, simultaneous instants
Pre and post my vertebral consumption
In between we will rest
Wherever you are, whenever you happen to be
Stay put'

In Between Obfuscate Coordinates - P è n i n ș o l a r & Ilaria Boffa

Leon The Professional song

Henrik delivers his follow-up album on Ambientologist, Kval, strengthening his crossing of medieval evocation and meditative ambient cello.

A story of choices, necessary suffering, and being human.

CDs and download available here: https://bit.ly/3n8EFnx

Kval

Henrik Meierkord - Suddig

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly (Chattanooga 27 Feb 2006)

Good Morning 2021

A Happy New Year

a rework from Mean Flow of a previous track by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-music

gennaio 2021

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - bedroom music n°1

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - bedroom music n°2

a rework from Wilfried Hanrath of "piano patterns n°15" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi

gennaio 2021

Marco Lucchi & Wilfried Hanrath - piano pattern n°15

a rework from Lärmschutz of "piano patterns n°16" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

gennaio 2021

Marco Lucchi - Extra Penitents (#16 Ruined By Lärmschutz)

Marco Lucchi : toy harp, piano and analog synthesizer

6 gennaio 2021

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Will there really be a "morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Man from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "morning" lies!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°21 (+ piano + analog synth)

'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)

"Pastime with Good Company", also known as "The King's Ballad" ("The Kynges Balade"), is an English folk song written by King Henry VIII in the beginning of the 16th century, shortly after his coronation.

Туссер - Pastime With Good Company

Sad And Dramatic Instrumental Music For Piano, Cello And Strings

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Elemental

Wade

Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck - Safe Passage - Dekmantel - DKMNTL088

https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/safe-passage

a1. Movement 1
b1. Movement 2
b2. Movement 3

Including digital remixes by 

Matthew Herbert, The Soft Pink Truth, BvDub, East of Oceans and Frits Wentink himself.

Amsterdam, January 2021

It is often said that the best art comes out of adversity, and so it is that producer Frits Wentink, photographer Erik Madigan Heck and actress Tilda Swinton have collaborated on Safe Passage, a fascinating audio-visual project born out of loss. Consisting of classical,choral, and electronic music in three movements, the gatefold album will be presented by Dekmantel with a 40 page booklet of additional photographs and paintings, as well as digital only remixes from Matthew Herbert, The Soft Pink Truth, BvDub, and East of Oceans.

Dutch producer and renowned innovator Frits Wentink helms the Will & Ink and Bobby Donny labels, builds synthesizers and beautiful controllers, and puts out always experimental, left of centre house music that pushes at the boundaries. This project initially started out as him attempting to musically illustrate the photography of American visual artist Erik Madigan Heck. The internationally renowned Heck is known for a lavish and experimental use of colour that has won him the prestigious International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award as well as make him a regular contributor to high profile media such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Midway through the project, Eriks mother was hospitalised due to breast cancer complications before also contracting Covid-19. By her bedsides and as a means to ease her passage, he repetitively played the first portion of the score, and then, once she passed, he decided to commemorate the music's function as a soundtrack for her transition to afterlife by naming it Safe Passage. The involvement of Academy Award–winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton has lent the music an extra dimension of spirituality: throughout the album, she interjects whispered fragments of Heck’s poetry, blurring the lines between one phase of music and the next.

The music has three movements across two sides: Side A, Safe, has a sense of hope and reflection as it undulates from minimalist string and brass arrangements to ambient and dissonant classical piano. Side B, Passage, then depicts the start of the transition into the afterlife as the voices of a choral madrigal ensemble gradually diverge, then break down entirely before a grand tonal expansion leads into a frenzied crescendo of choral vocals, hardened dub techno and anxious rhythms that convey the violence of the soul’s exit from this world. Finally, a cathartic Epilogue resets and bids farewell with the gentle sounds of a piano.

Because of the global on-going loss of life as a result of Covid-19, Safe Passage has become a soundtrack in which many people will find solace as they remember the sad transitions made from this life to the next during this unprecedented time in history.

DKMNTL088 // Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck - Safe Passage

Tonight an improvisation dedicated to music, the piano, the engaging sound of this instrument and the dance that the notes manage to create in my mind while I play.

Moon ray

Doubts

Piano Doubts

Music&mixing by https://soundcloud.com/markvernon
Sonopetry&mixing, cover pic by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa

Sonopoem called 'Ode for Complexity' by IB

'Ode for Complexity

And what’s next? Next roots to eradicate, cultures to dominate, archetypes to steal. Cyborg and Pseudo.
Assume mediocrity. No phenomenon is special, privileged, exceptional or superior.
Assume the principle, ‘if an item is drawn at random from one of several sets or categories, it's likelier to come from the most numerous category than from any one of the less numerous categories’.
And yet, the probability of being mediocre is increasing. The service of thinking is at risk.
Too-much-ness of counter-intuition. It’s hard to do difficult things. 

*‘E’ difficile fare le cose difficili:
parlare al sordo,
mostrare la rosa al cieco.
Bambini, imparate a fare le cose difficili:
dare la mano al cieco,
cantare per il sordo,
liberare gli schiavi che si credono liberi’.

Clouds are moving fast. They’re shifting perspective. Carry me with you.'

* Nursery rhyme by Gianni Rodari, late Italian writer, especially children’s literature, pedagogist, journalist and poet.

It’s difficult to do difficult things: 
To talk to a deaf,
to show a rose to a blind. 
Children! Learn to do difficult things:
take the blind by hand, 
sing for the deaf, 
set free slaves who believe themselves free.

Nexotica (Mark Vernon & Ilaria Boffa)

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/