'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

c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

this monthly selection is dedicated to Don Cherry

"musica assoluta" (dicembre 2020)

The best tracks of the friends and residents of Meticulous Midgets anti-label (http://stopcran.ru)
☀ In rotation on the radio http://mitota.club ☀ About: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-01-27-210

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HIT-PARADE: all №1 (january 2021)

Book 1 - Intro

Quantum Spins sounded like a good alertnative sound arts podcast playlist title, at least for starters. I'd been thinking about how to re-present sounds, music, audio, ideas about sonic & vibrational phenomena that I had been listening to or thinking about seriously and now here it is. My aim is to expose listeners to items I've found particularly fertile, inspirational and essential either in that they back up or initialize my own catalytics or genuinely throw a spanner into overly aggregrated or pat systems of how music and information should be organized or presented. This is a depot for highly charged works of art, maybe even a museum but not a venue (I am not seeking submissions nor for what some algorithm deems to be similar nor to have more of the same, not at all). I put here certain works I might have wanted to make if I had had the means or situation to do so and/or things I could never have imagined before. Many thanks to the perhaps yet unwitting (and future unknown) contributors ;)  Leading image from Marta Zapparoli's track is a photo of her recording auroera borealis: photographer Alex Conu.

Quantum Spins (Selected by Jeff Gburek)

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MOXATRON STBB744 High Grade

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.
Sound design & concept: Klaus Nielsen (https://soundcloud.com/maplepools) and Nikolai Linden-Vörnle (https://soundcloud.com/kamikaze_vildsvin)
Image by Crimson Sound (https://soundcloud.com/crimson-sound-483379629)
Read the full story: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/The_scary_sound_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field

The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field

Posaune & Audiobearbeitung by Wolfram Schurack

Walfram

A new composition for ELKA organ, Bees and Flies processed.

You Are Never Alone But...

This is an Extract from the Premiere of my new solo performance "Interdimensional Generated Space", premiered in October 2022 at Panke Culture in Belin, as a part of the series (Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen) . 

A research-intensive piece focusing on the transcendental phenomenon of the Northern Lights. 
The planned performance uses the implement of self-made recordings from the Northern Lights, in combination with self-made crystal radio, plus light, detectors, and motors, to simulate a technological audio-visual version of Northern Lights in the performance space. “Interdimensional” specifically refers to the movement of energy between modes of perception. One part of this energy come from the composed mixture of “natural cosmic voices”; and another part is coming from the electromagnetic forces generated and captured in real time during the performance. The piece make full use of the contrasts of the invisible processes, to create a new experience of space, time, and human scale. 
This is an attempt to achieve a unique sonic dialogue 
between “Natural” and “Technological” world, a reflection on Nature that is imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age.

This project was kindly supported by Musikfonds & Neu Start Kulture
Photo credit : Alex Conu
Live recordings by : Roy Carroll

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

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Spenta Armaiti (2015)

My Body Is The Forest, The Forest Is My Body is a sound track, which accompanies the video project(phot. Jacek Jaca Wisniewsky),  under the same title, shot in the endangered zone of Bialowieza Forest.
This project searches to understand better the interrelation between the body and the forest through the
similarities which connect both organisms and to make it present to a viewer, aiming at changing the sociopolitical distance between the body of the viewer and the forest bringing it closer together instigating a more intimate relation between the two.
Bialowieza is one of the last remaining parts of the primal forest that once stretched across the northern European lowlands and a designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is home to many rare and unique species of wildlife including being the only area, where the european bison still survives in the wild. It is currently under threat from increased logging, which is the policy of the new polish government. The policy is very controversial and subject to intense debate, which gives a context to this project.

My Body Is The Forest The Forest Is My Body

This week, we're joined by Sian Griffiths, Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and Chair of the Public Health England Global Health Committee. 

Professor Griffiths discusses the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, and what healthcare professionals should know about the virus.

For more on SARS, visit BMJ Best Practice: newbp.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/904

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The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others.

SARS

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

An original tune that came about on a day of interesting May weather, with lots of wind, snow, sun, and clouds.

Instruments: 
Gardner mountain dulcimer, Killarney tin whistle, sleigh bells, claps, and a jaw harp

May Winds Blow ~ In Sun And Snow

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

Vanessa Pettendorfer: organ -
Bruno Gussoni: shakuhachi -
Mastering: Alexey Mikryukov

Vanessa Pettendorfer & Bruno Gussoni -  neiger à gros flocons

Bongore

Marco Lucchi : toy harp and Juno synthesizer

1 dicembre 2020

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Our share of night to bear -
Our share of morning -
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning -

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist - and there a mist -
Afterwards - Day!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°20 (+ Juno koto)

a rework from Pete Swinton of a track previously released by Marco Lucchi and M.Nomized

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

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi, M.Nomized & Pete Swinton - n°12

Ni Wayan Puspita Apriliana Kerti_2012531012_The Impact of Korean Wave

Venedig Czwartek 926 music by https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
Sonopoem by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
Pic by IB: view from Fusina ferry boat, Porto Marghera Petrochemical Plant

'Ebb Tidal Delta, Findings & Intercourse

Upon progression, stasis. 
The planimetry of transgressive deposits 
detects nonconforming incoming signals. Findings? 
Maximum flooding and ebb tidal delta on our faces afterwards.  
Our channels capped and monitored by safeguard norms. We’ve been 
rounding down our drives. The exercise of replacing intercourse with course 
although an inter-course is a course between. Shouldn’t we map an intercourse? 

For the sake of science.'

Ebb Tidal Delta, Findings & Intercourse In Venedig, Czwartek 926 (Gburek&Boffa)

A gift of meditative winter sounds from artists, friends and relatives of Nature Tales. All of those who contributed to our Live Set series through the last years. We’re delighted to bring them all together for our first of hopefully many compilations to come

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To be released on February 5, 2021

Pre-order now via:

Bandcamp - http://bit.ly/2XHqEC5
iTunes - http://apple.co/3qrkpyr

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Featuring:
Bålsam: soundcloud.com/anthony-asher-yates
Folest: soundcloud.com/folest
Ishtadi: soundcloud.com/ishtadi
Respira: soundcloud.com/respirabreathe
Tropico Del Cancer: soundcloud.com/juanitopino
Assembly Of Honey: soundcloud.com/assembly-of-honey
Atmøspäre: soundcloud.com/atmosphare
Ad Vaita: soundcloud.com/ad-vaita
Oriental Love: soundcloud.com/user-541428630
Quieto: soundcloud.com/quietosessions
Nifkin: soundcloud.com/nifkin 

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Artwork by our dearest talented Mari Mur
https://www.instagram.com/marimur.art/

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Peace

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VA - Winter Meditations [Preview] (NT001)

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia, Belgium, USA (january 2021)

"Rainbow from pole to equator" (chukchi reggae). I want to dedicate this track to my grandmother, who turned into a rainbow. This quilt is also dedicated to her. I sewed it last summer when she was still alive. The recording was attended by:

Sergey Kobzev @Jasny-Svetly @Assembly-of-Honey (Moscow, Russia)  > drums, bass, acoustic guitar  
Laurent Donckers @Deep-Man-2-121969062 (Belgium) > wind pipe, pvc, plastic, and some small guitar 
Alexander Bozhday @Somebody-Bo (Penza, Russia) > ukulele, ocarina
Steve Layton @NiwoSound (Seattle, United States) > organ
Zach Schneider @Zach-Schneider-1 (New Hampshire, United States) > flute
Alan Ingall @NewShoe (North Carolina, United States) > accordion 
Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass (Moscow, Russia) > singing, sewing)

P.S.

One of the first CRAZY COMPASS tracks, recorded 5 years ago, was also dedicated to grandparents: https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/Universal-Celebrations

Universal Celebrations (remix by Ясный — Svetly):
https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/universal-celebrations-remix

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CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Радуга от полюса до экватора / Rainbow from pole to equator

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 Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
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 Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human 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 Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, 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/