Fractal (2021) is a composition which sounds entirely consist of recordings made with metallic, plastic, wooden tools and paper on the internal metal bridge of Beirut Art Center.

Commissioned by Beirut Art Center in the framework of Micro-commissions no. 4: The Bridge Cuts Ever So Close to My Balcony with the support of 21dB

Fractal

for ensemble and 3d virtual music environment

visit the virtual environment here:
https://fabrica.ircam.fr/

watch the video recording of the performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LkFICJFj24

Music by Giulia Lorusso
Web developing , Benjamin Lévy
Visuals and Web design by Giovanni Muzio

Recorded in Paris, Grande Salle du Centre Pompidou on March 19, 2021
by
Ensemble C Barré
Guillaume Bourgogne, conductor
Benjamin Lévy, sound design

Fabrica (2020-21)

Bossy

Princess Trium

"PINK noise" is the first single release from Lola de la Mata's upcoming album around tinnitus: "Oceans on Azimuth", out May 8th 2024 + a 250 limited edition run colour vinyl. Pre-order now on Bandcamp

"PINK noise is a collaboration between myself and Lana Norris, resident musicologist at the Hudspeth Neuroscience Lab, NY. Our common interests were Maryanne Amacher and the inner ear…our diverging interests: opera, baroque music, prose for Lana. Improvisation, prepared violin, otoacoustic illusions for me. Our worlds and personalities truly collided in this performance style composition. I wanted to keep a raw quality to the piece, leaving space for the listener’s imagination to picture our duet in a domed architecture (hopefully a cochlea!). 

The text written by Lana is in fact a list of terminology overheard at the lab, taken from the language of statistics and auditory physocphysics - which, mirrors musical language but with alternate meanings. The piece intends to feel like vertigo induced play...3/4 of the way in, “Hopf” tingles the brain from the sudden hyper produced stereo realm, holding attention around the ears before descending back into reverberant improvisatory chaos.

It's an added bonus that the title references Tara Rodger's book on women within electronic music and sound "Pink noises"."

PINK noise

Somewhere between banging your head against a brick wall and holding your breath under water. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dont-trip/episodes/dont-trip-1st-april-2024

Don't Trip w/ Margarita 010424

Intertwined Distances (2018)
Solo Harpsichord and Electronics (quadrophonic)

commissioned by and written for Mahan Esfahani
Premiere: March 2018, Madrid, Fundación Juan March
http://www.march.es/musica/detalle.aspx?p5=100310
Recording: Live radio broadcast 

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Some words about the piece: 

Distance, Movement, Silence, Perception, Paradox, Continuity...

According to Merriam-Webster, distance is a separation in time, an extent of advance from a beginning; and in mathematics it refers to the degree or amount of separation between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects.

In this piece I am exploring the qualities of various dimensions of ‘distances’.
The piece opens perceptual spaces and plays with the listener’s perceptions. It is an observation of how the sound moves and travels within the concert hall, of the distances between the performer on stage and the audience, and of the relationships of both with the quadraphonic speakers. On another level, it explores the phenomena of distance in time (the centuries- old harpsichord being placed in a modern environment) and distance between people (geographically, emotionally, etc). Our daily life is made of these intertwined distances, which are constantly in movement and change.

On a personal level, the electronic component comes out of a close collaboration, between Mahan Esfahani and the composer.

The sounds are solely harpsichord sounds, specially recorded for this piece. In association with various filters and processes, the material developed further and gained other colours and qualities.
The piece is an observation of these constant movements of sound and various perceptions of distances – and of ultimately how all these unite and convolute by twining with each other.

Intertwined Distances (2018)

for string quartet + fixed media electronics
Performed by the Quatuor Bozzini 
3rd December, Milton Court Concert Hall, London

this recording is live

Canon and Chaconne

Extract of an imaging procedure using a confocal microscope at UCL Ear Institute.

An inner ear organoid derived from embryonic stem cells of a Mouse bound with fluorescent molecules was photographed to generate a three dimensional representation of the tissue. This recording features the confocal's lasers scanning the tissue.

Photographing An Inner Ear Organoid

A 15 minute ambient opus recorded in rehearsals by London-based female electronic drone choir, @nyx-edc.

Read More: http://www.stampthewax.com/2020/04/20/premiere-nyx-somme/
Buy: https://nyx-edc.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-demos-rehearsals-ep
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/NYXSomme

Listen on Youtube

NYX - Somme (STW Premiere)

Performed by the amazing EXAUDI, led by James Weeks, Milton Court Concert Hall, 06.10.20

S - Juliet Fraser
M-S - Lucy Goddard
C-T - Tom Williams
T - David de Winter
Bar - Michael Hickman
B - Simon Whiteley

Moon

Ruben Mattia Santorsa, electric guitar

Recorded in Paris on 24/02/2020

À fleur de peau

"À fleur de peau" by Giulia Lorusso

'PINK noise' + 'Stereocilia' out now
pre-order debut album 'Oceans on Azimuth' on Bandcamp: limited edition LP /Digital

'KOH - Klee - uh' is out on SA recordings: https://sarecordings.com/release/299715-lola-de-la-mata-koh-klee-uh

interview with 15 Questions: https://15questions.net/interview/lola-de-mata-about-tinnitus-creative-spark/page-1/

'The Embalmer' + ['LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS' are released on @nonclassical

Feminist concept album'REMISE EN BOUCHE' : http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr245-lola-de-la-mata-remise-en-bouche/

PINK noise

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