Beautiful piece ! 🙏 😍 🍀 🎶 🎧 

Your music really jives with me. Both poetic and experiental

This started out as an acoustic piece in the vein of Salif Keita. It didn't work out and slowly disintegrated into this.

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Sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa 
Field recording by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa taken at 'HYPERVENEZIA' exhibition (Urban Photo Project by Mario Peliti) at Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana in Venice (excerpt from the slide box: original music by Nicolas Godin, text from 'Fading' a short film by Sébastien Peretto, voice by Alan Cox).
pic HYPERVENEZIA exhibition, detail

'Naked

The city and this solitude
found architecture of things
no shades in the north light.
Inhabitants disappear hence
built structures reside naked.
Abstract counterparts, we own
the aesthetic of utility-bearing composites.
Some places open causal profiles
they extend semantics.
Designing shelters though intrinsically social
yields to moral relevance.
Did we choose Beauty?
There is a joint liability, viable obligations.
Our gaze can be so disengaged and violent
in such need of repurposing.
Our gazes, spectators of their own standpoint.
We accommodate our limbs
on the madieri*, and cover the masonry with
waterproof clay and lime plaster
stapling bones.
Everything moves, every thing aches.

Spoglie

La città e questa solitudine
architettura trovata delle cose
niente ombre nella luce del nord.
Gli abitanti scompaiono e allora
le strutture fabbricate risiedono spoglie.
Controparti astratte, possediamo
l’estetica di materiali orientati all’utilità.
Alcuni luoghi aprono profili causali
estendono la semantica.
La progettazione di ripari, intrinsecamente 
sociale si piega alla rilevanza morale.
Abbiamo scelto la Bellezza?
Esiste una responsabilità congiunta, obbligazioni fattibili. 
Il nostro sguardo può essere così distratto e violento
così bisognoso di riqualificazione.
I nostri sguardi, spettatori della propria posizione.
Appoggiamo le membra
sui madieri* e copriamo la muratura
con argilla resistente all’acqua e intonaco di calce
graffettando le ossa.
Ogni cosa si muove, ogni cosa fa male.'

*timber boards

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artist: Rathrobin https://soundcloud.com/rathrobin
album: Ear to the Ground (NR016)
release date: 31st January 2022
duration: 36 minutes
edition: digital + limited edition CD

Naviar's first solo release of the year is the stunning concept album "Ear to the Ground" by electroacoustic duo Rathrobin.

Exploring the themes of memory and yearning, Ear to the Ground is a sonic journal of intertwined personal experiences: two nomadic authors pouring their creativity and feelings in a blank canvas that becomes a breathtaking collection of electroacoustic songs.

When Pier and Beth contacted me to release their album, I was mesmerized by the mood and poignancy of their soundscapes.
Ear to the Ground is cinematic music at its best: powerful and enveloping, inviting the listener on a journey that speaks of human nature, life, and personal evolution. Beth's voice gently guides us and hovers over Pier's captivating ambient layers, adding further depth to a multifaceted album that evolves together with the listener.

The main themes of ‘Ear to the Ground’ are time, memory and nostalgia, which are realized through textural, layered, emotive and evocative soundscapes.

During six years of collaboration, inevitably, the artists' own memories, experiences and lives were interwoven throughout the album, and their own, somewhat nomadic lifestyles reflected another significant theme of the album: the meaning of home.

Vocals, field recordings, digital and analogue instruments move through the album as a way for the artists and listeners to process experiences from the past and conjure thoughts of the future.

The album’s making was a long but consistent process and invariably included some periods of furious creativity and others of quiet contemplation.

About Rathrobin:

Beth Chesser (UK) and Pier Giorgio Storti (Italy) collaborated virtually, over a six-year period whilst simultaneously exploring the world, living in various countries. After meeting on Soundcloud they quickly began working on their first collaborative album, ‘Ear to the Ground’. Each are musicians in their own right, both have performed in live bands and a multitude of recorded musical projects. The collaboration sees Pier contribute his multi-instrumental aptitude with Beth’s vocals, and digital music compositions. All the tracks from their debut album have been recorded in various locations: Italy, UK, Singapore and Finland between 2015 and 2020.

Rathrobin - Ear To The Ground (teaser)

DIE BÖSE HEXE VERLIERT AM ENDE

The Unnamable
concerto for orchestra, celesta, crotales and baritone
May - October 2022
Matthew Lee Knowles

"Lies, lies, mine was not to know, nor to judge, nor to rail, but to go"
-Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953)

SCORE
https://www.scribd.com/document/612052358/The-Unnamable

The Unnamable (2022)

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Cellophane Universe (a cassette tape loop project)

Cellophane-Universe

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Iblunica [part 1]

Equipment:YAMAHA Reface CP,Cooper Fx Outward V2,Chase Bliss Audio MOOD,Chase Bliss Audio Blooper,BOSS RV-5

summer vacation

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/

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