Chapter #58 belongs to the one and only - Fabrizio Rat, a man of incredible talent!

BIO:

Fabrizio Rat - La Machina
The idea is simple. Take a piano, the classical and romantic instrument par excellence, and throw it into the hypnotic and powerful soundscape of techno music.

Pianist of Cabaret Contemporain and Magnetic, Fabrizio  toured through the festivals of France and Europe in the past years. 
His solo project started in January 2016 with an EP on Optimo Trax and a live show few months afterwards. A video of the live has buzzed on the net and the ‘technopiano’  has became a real phenomenon in underground techno.

The force of human repetition, the imperfection of analog machines transports the public into an hypnotic state. A performance of this kind has rarely been seen in clubs. The right hand is the sequencer of the ‘technopiano’, the left hand is the dj who handles drum machine and bass and mix everything. Who really is the machine it is hard to say.

The piano become a giant synthesizer played by hand and is ‘prepared’ (modified) with objects and techniques DIY (e.g. scotch tape and patafix on strings). The sound is then transformed to go beyond the romantic clichés often associated to the instrument.

Fabrizio Rat - La Machina sign with Involve his new Technopiano EP produced exclusively with piano, TR909  and TB303. The result is an hypnotic trip mixing addictive prepared piano riffs with sounds of acid techno.
His new album will be released in may on the label Blackstrobe by Arnaud Rebotini.

‘’La Machina is my love story with the machines which created the sound of techno music. These machines are far from being  ‘perfect’, they almost have feelings I believe, and they behave unexpectedly and unpredictably sometimes. This aspect makes them unique and impossible to imitate with computers. 
I realized that I had lots of things to learn from these machines, drum machines in particular (the 909 above all). I thought that by studying and trying to discover their secrets I might have been able to push to new boundaries my ‘machine’ from the very beginning, the piano. A piano made of strings to scrape, damp, hit, to escape  the romantic cliches often associated to it. 
I want to play like machine, but with my human energy which adds something different to the repetition process.’’

Explore more:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/fabriziorat.lamachina
SC: https://soundcloud.com/fabriziorat 
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/fabriziorat-fr
WEB: http://www.fabriziorat.com

Lost In Ether | Podcast #58 | Fabrizio Rat - La Machina

contact: michaljablonski@lostinether.pl
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"Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered). Before that, it was the material that suffused the realm of the Gods. So, to say that something is in the ether means that it is something being communicated from place to place; it has no precise location, just as a radio broadcast can be heard from many different places. "

* Lost In Ether 
Here you can find personal visions and expressions of alternative electronic music represented by artists invited to show their own ways to explore sounds which are embraced into one wave of sound - podcast recorded for "Lost in Ether".
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