'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

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

"musica assoluta" (luglio 2021)

the tracks I have made - or which I have been involved in - during July

(2021) July works

All tracks from this playlist will be sent to rotation on our radio http://mitota.club/
☀ About it: stopcran.ru/blog/2021-08-28-225 ☀ Thanks for sharing!

Painter: Jacek Yerka

HIT-PARADE: all №1 (september 2021)

Kuronami

Anna Mark Richter-music, voice, poetry, visual, cover

Vadimpetrenko: music, mixing, guitars, voice, vinyl, digital touch tools: generator, pianos, keyboards, e-contrabass, bass, e-clarinet, strings, brass, drums, percussion, chinese erhu, chinese lute /pipa/, koto, guzheng, chinese kit, taiko

I am a DNA owner,
That is my only passport!
I've got my secret number- 
My security password.

I am Combination of Numbers
Written by algorithm...
I am a DNA owner,
I have my own rhytm,
I am a DNA owner
It is my living license.

There is SO SOLAR SYSTEM 
always sunny around
One day it must be finished
Well, not now, not now...
I am a DNA owner
For a while,for a while...

Я - Комбинация Цифр
Я несу свой таинственный шифр
Я носитель своего ДНК,
Но это пока, это пока..
В этой системе так солнечно 
В этой системе ТАК СОЛНЕЧНО, 
Когда-нибудь это все кончится,
А пока....

DNA Owner-Voice Generators Soul Organ Chinese Kit And Chinese Erhu

JUST BEFORE A DISCOVERY

A piece for Naviar Records' weekly haiku challenge. As the first word is 'experimenting', I thought I'd experiment with odd time signatures. The haiku has 5, 5 and 8 syllables, so my piece is based round two bars of 5 beats and 1 bar of 8 beats. I also wanted the piece to be quite melodic with the melancholy feel of a moonlit night under the trees.

I Hung The Moon On Various Branches (naviarhaiku391) - Adrian Lane

Ghtcheona

Marco Lucchi : piano, electric organ and analog synthesizers

12 luglio 2021

Fosfeni

Incipit is Organ and piano by https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi
No longer not yet is sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa

'No longer, not yet

Let go and gain throughout
this time of becoming
rain into the river
mirror in the mirror
curse the hail that disrupts 
action and derails beginnings

biophony leads the rhythm 
of the growing dance
incipit on repeat'

Incipit, No Longer Not Yet (Marco Lucchi & Ilaria Boffa)

music by Marco Lucchi : piano and electronics
lyrics by Mauro Carrera

Voices by Francesca Tuscano, Giovanni Fontana and Mauro Carrera

with contributions from Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

reworked by Liquid House : korg ms-20 and noise box
Mixed at Hadean Studio, May/July 2021

Illustration, Gustave Doré
the inferno, canto 32 (ninth circle)

Marco Lucchi, Henrik Meierkord & Liquid House - Dante

an 'incipit' by Marco Lucchi expanded by Tobto

luglio 2021

Tobto & Marco Lucchi - Ceptum

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizers

16 luglio 2021

1. ΜΝΑΜΟΣΥΝΑΣΤΟΔΕΕΡΙΟΝΕΠΕΙΑΜΜΕΛΛΕΙΣΙΘΑΝΕΣΘΑΙ
2. ΕΙΣΑΙΔΑΟΔΟΜΟΣΕΥΕΡΕΑΣΕΣΤΕΠΙΔΕΞΙΑΚΡΕΝΑ
3. ΠΑΡΔΑΥΤΑΝΕΣΤΑΚΥΑΛΕΥΚΑΚΥΠΑΡΙΣΟΣ
4. ΕΝΘΑΚΑΤΕΡΧΟΜΕΝΑΙΨΥΚΑΙΝΕΚΥΟΝΨΥΧΟΝΤΑΙ
5. ΤΑΥΤΑΣΤΑΣΚΡΑΝΑΣΜΕΔΕΣΧΕΔΟΝΕΝΓΥΘΕΝΕΛΘΕΙΣ
6. ΠΡΟΣΘΕΝΔΕΗΕΥΡΕΣΕΙΣΤΑΣΜΝΑΜΟΣΥΝΑΣΑΠΟΛΙΜΝΑΣ
7. ΨΥΧΡΟΝΥΔΟΡΠΡΟΡΕΟΝΦΥΛΑΚΕΣΔΕΕΠΥΠΕΡΘΕΝΕΑΣΙ
8. ΤΟΙΔΕΣΕΕΙΡΕΣΟΝΤΑΙΕΝΦΡΑΣΙΠΕΥΚΑΛΙΜΑΙΣΙ
9. ΟΤΙΔΕΕΞΕΡΕΕΙΣΑΙΔΟΣΣΚΟΤΟΣΟΡΟΕΕΝΤΟΣ
10. ΕΙΠΟΝΙΟΣΙΑΡΙΜΙΚΑΙΟΡΑΝΟΑΣΤΕΡΟΕΝΤΟΣ
11. ΔΙΨΑΙΔΕΜΕΑΥΟΣΚΑΙΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΑΙΑΛΑΔΟΤΟ
12. ΨΥΧΡΟΝΥΔΟΡΠΙΕΝΑΙΤΕΣΜΝΕΜΟΣΥΝΕΣΑΠΟΛΙΜ
13. ΚΑΙΔΕΤΟΙΕΛΕΟΣΙΝΙΥΠΟΧΘΟΝΙΟΙΒΑΣΙΛΕΙ
14. ΚΑΙΔΕΤΟΙΔΟΣΟΣΙΠΙΕΝΤΑΣΜΝΑΜΟΣΥΝΑΣΑΠΟΛΙΜΝΑΣ
15. ΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΙΣΥΠΙΟΝΗΟΔΟΝΕΡΧΕΑΗΑΝΤΕΚΑΙΑΛΛΟΙ
16. ΜΥΣΤΑΙΚΑΙΒΑΧΧΟΙΗΙΕΡΑΝΣΤΕΙΧΟΣΙΚΛΕΙΝΟΙ

Mnemosyne

The Same Old Rain

Steve Layton (@niwosound) - The Composer Plays Revisited (CD):
https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/the-composer-plays-revisited

More about: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-09-10-224

Steve Layton - The Composer Plays Revisited (CD)

album free download : https://hartmann1.bandcamp.com/album/industrial-blues-of-the-21st-century-generation-borderline

Rainy Day

Try - to forget 
did what i can
see the sun came down
on a rainy day

a harlekins` heartbreak
already moved the saints
see the sun – see me
raining on you

hello soul 
feels like i´m a song
in the autumn sun
so low – so strong

the wind kept blowing
the doors kept close
the storm passed slowly
green light was the black cross
red light – jackpot future
there´s no time
a stolen picture
blaming just the crime
blaming just the crime
but no one now
no one now

who was taken  by the wings of speed
whos` head found its line
on a rainy day

so i tried to forget her
did what i can
see the sun came down on a rainy day

take me home my Lord
all the lights seem red
all i´m missing now
seems all i ever had
on a sunny day

Francisco, Tina, Klaus.



Collaboration:
Musik: C.C. Remenyi / h.artmann

. . . 
deus est

 digital busking

Rainy Day

Full album: http://sokpbavabodha.com/album/music-for-fields

Music for Fields (feat. WMRI) [album sampler]

Free download on bandcamp: https://jasny-svetly.bandcamp.com/track/wet-street

МОКРАЯ УЛИЦА

Мокрая, мокрая, мокрая улица 
в небе асфальтовом мне нарисуется. 
Кто-то торопится, кто-то волнуется 
в доме на этой знакомой мне улице. 

А мне сюда 
не нужно уже никогда, 
я просто так здесь, 
я просто есть, просто есть, просто есть. 

Люди, сегодня меня повстречавшие, 
завтра становятся просто вчерашними. 
Но то, что мне нравится, - 
это останется 
рядом со мной, в моей памяти: 

этот город, умытый дождем, 
этот день, этот дом, 
в памяти вечно умытый дождем.

Мокрая улица / wet street

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

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

***

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)

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 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 More-Than-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/