Track recorded from my Laser Drawing show

Laser Spiral Song

Solo @Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, Eindhoven, 08/06/2022
Alberto Novello, a.k.a. JesterN modular Impro.

Thanks to Max Frimout for the organization and Bart van Dongen for the recording.

Solo @Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, Eindhoven, 08/06/2022

Track Recorded during my residency on December 2022 at EMS Studion Stockholm.

Japanese Spirals

Handrecording @DoubleRoom Trieste 27 April 2023

Tristan Honsinger - Cello
Clarissa Durizzotto - Clarinet
Paolo Pascolo - Flutes
Alberto Novello - Modular Synthesizer

Picture by Erin McKinney

DPHN

Sunrise - Live at Waterhouse, Amsterdam

Electronic Jungle

Rec-coons

In a world that quickly forgets the past, I went back in time to the era of analog technologies to scavenge and resurrect what's been left behind. They call it "Media Archaeology": brushing off the dust from old tools from a civilization that hastily jumped into the digital world and left behind forgotten ghosts. These tools have strong personalities: they show a unique fluidity compared to their digital successors. In Celestial Harmonies I have hacked a Vectrex, a game console from the 80s, to bring it back to life as a hybrid zombie: half analog, half digital. I chose it for its vibrant beam and I hacked it so that I could draw shapes with sound. I tell a story about space geometries and harmonic ratios with Light and Sound perfectly synchronized in a simple but powerful synesthetic discourse.

Video link:
https://vimeo.com/240737144

Celestial Harmonies

Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN’s practice uses found or decontextualized analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repurposes and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the natural vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.

His works have been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Amsterdam Dance Event, Venice Biennale, New York Computer Music Festival, Bozar Bruxelles, BOA Biennale Porto, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Glasgow Contemporary Art Center, Dom Moskow, Seoul International Music Festival, Rome University of Fine Arts, to mention a few. He has released records for Staalplat, Bowindo, Elli Records, Dobialabel, Setoladimaiale, Ante-Rasa and Creative Sources.

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