There Must Be Something Better Than This

Mixed media, Anthotypes,  photographic prints of fabriano paper, rust, oil, six microphone recording for binaural headphones, 2024

Speculative field studies at post industrial WWII site that explores the remains of abandoned oil tanks designed for the war effort. Encountering the dynamic interaction of plants and the surrounding environment. I have worked with and alongside plants, polluted water and soil onsite, utilising them as photographic processes and sonic artefacts. The fragility and instability of these plants using the alternative photographic Anthotype process that uses photosensitive material from plants under the influence of light. An unstable emulsion is made from crushed flower petals or any other light-sensitive plant, fruit or vegetable. Images in this series will fade and be ravaged by time and light constricted, smothered echoing the plants slow demise in toxic soils giving way to the nature of entropy.
This a exhibition 2024 at KARST contemporary art gallery UK.

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Marco Lucchi : pipe organ and synthesizers

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2 ottobre 2024

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"A gorgeous free-flowing piece by the prolific, broadly talented Marco Lucchi of Modena, Italy, combining pipe organ and synthesizers into a kind of insectoid raga. The track, five minutes or so long, is a whirring drone inside which cascades of organ notes, up and down the scale, pushing through for relative prominence. It tastes of Terry Riley in particular, and in a good way. There’s a remarkable amount of new music for organ being created currently, and this is a splendid addition — both the piece itself, and the combination of instruments."

Marc Weidenbaum

https://disquiet.com/2024/10/01/insectoid-raga/

Hymn for pipe organ and synthesizers

a collaborative work
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/soliloquy
curated by Marco Lucchi

Soliloquy, Marco Lucchi (philippe neau Rwk2)

pursuit of light

live improvisation on the buchla music easel at Steinhalle Emmendingen, Freiburg October 5, 2024, ZeM, Freiburg.

live recording, steinhalle: Theo Bloderer
artwork: Thomas Breuer

feedback improvisations

steinhalle

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at freesound.org 7).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Left turn - disquiet0670

Riffing around the sound of Suzuki Swift Sport indicators.
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More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

contraindication (disquiet0670)

Disquiet Junto Project 0674: Cerberus Sample
The Assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample.

Step 1: You’re going to make a song with just one short sample as its entire sonic source material. Select your sample wisely.

Step 2: Make a song in which the sample you selected in Step 1 serves as the raw resource for all the different parts of the song. Use nothing but that solitary sample. Here is one example of a song with four parts: melody, backing chordal material, bass, and beat. Three parts may be best, but make as complex and busy a piece of music as you desire, certainly.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0674” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0674-cerberus-sample/

Lunero y yo - disquiet0674

will be reworked for my new ongoing project at:

https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

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buried deep in the mix are two morse code patterns playing two separate ride cymbals --

left channel: "resident evil"
right channel: "a secure place"

as to the track, it's a mashup of two "resident evil 2" tracks - "secure place (save room)" and "ada's theme". there are also nods to bjork's track "play dead" and the guitar work of the cure. i went for a motoric beat to hold things together, before fading out with a sample from a company called "Ethereal 2080" (ds_bitter_sweet_textured_piano_loop_80_dm_wet")

a secure place for ada

Jamie combines art practice with field recordings and sound composition to enable non- anthropocentric readings of post-industrial sites. His experimental practice research methods include multi-sensory technological methods of observation, employing VHF, radio waves, Geiger counters, handmade synths and devices. Alongside using the latest software applications of granular synthesis and spatial audio Jamie creates immersive sound installations and extended electroacoustic/acousmatic compositions.
Jamie is a multi-award-winning artist researcher, has presented his work at International and National symposia and has exhibited and published widely including:

Jamie's work in sound has been broadcasted on Radio 3 Mixing it London (UK) and Resonance  FM  London (UK).Most recently Migration Sounds Oxford University UK,Sites and Memory Project and working with The Freshwater Sounds Archive in collaboration with Dr Jack Greenhalgh Canada Foundation for Innovation.

-Speaker at 6th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2022) Cyprus EXPANDED VISUALITIES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
-CAST Cornubian Arts & Science Trust Helston (UK). Test Space: Expositions of practice-led research Symposium.
-Feature on my field recordings on Resonance FM London UK
-Phytogenesis II Provocations of Plants, Philosophy and Photography. International Symposium University of Plymouth, North East Photography collective, Newcastle University. I delivered an academic paper on my practice through the lens of Deleuze.

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