Oldies ('90 - '00 - '10)

"Perché Dormiamo?" First DEMO version. Composed in the evening between the 5th and the 6th o January (probaly). The Piano sound was probably a Quicktime MIDI system sound. 

The title of the track came to me in the summer of 2006 at the Natural History Museum in London, looking at  a shrine with the reproduction of a small dinosaur portrayed in the act of sleeping.

The question that arose kept running through my head like a melancholy riddle throughout my stay in London.  "Why do we sleep? Why do we sleep? Why do we sleep? Why do we sleep? ..."

I finished the piece in January 2020, but still couldn't get an answer.

Perché Dormiamo? (DEMO 2007)

AMBIENCE Vol. 5 MONSOON SEASON IN JAWA
a 10 track album on Bandcamp
Painting by Pete Swinton - Portugal 1997
Listen to the album here :
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/ambience-vol-5-monsoon-season-in-jawa?fbclid=IwAR0MSgcLw7vXAy7B34-Rz5yiLj45Ssl4RyFRUYldFII7F_kHvg-3H4NjOEA

07. Interlude

Ambient 8

Demo track from 2007, made with the purpose of being used for a band. The track was never finished or performed. Despite good intentions I got carried away and overdid the overdubs (a tendency I struggle to get rid of even now). I made an effort to leave everything as unaltered as possible from the 2007 mix. The only thing I was forced to add was the bass part; before there was a horrible midi placeholder and it was missing in many parts. I tried to play it the way I would have played it in 2007 and it still remains a bit naive since I am not a bass player.
The drums were made from a sample CD found at a friend's house, I don't know where they came from. It probably also has loops in it from the library of the old Apple Soundtrack Pro...

Skomorokh

Skomorokh (DEMO - Circa 2007)

Piece composed in 2002 for the trailer of the documentary 'My Three Peaks' ('Le mie Tre Cime') by Andreas Pichler. Direction: Andreas Pichler | Animation: Nunzio Cicero, Gigi Tarantola, Tatiana and Riccardo Arena. 
Part of the piece was later used in the final cut of the documentary. This track marks my very first experience with a sampler! I used Halion software (maybe version 2) and some sample CDs for Akai lent to me by a friend.
I put it here as it was, just cleaned up a couple of clicks, also because although I kept the score I no longer have either the sounds samples or the software to open the original project...

Tre Cime (Trailer Soundtrack - 2002)

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.

Surface C8H18

*Play on good speakers or headphones*
Geophones and ambisonic microphone array converted to binaural headphones

Spiders are affected by vibration in various ways. They use their orb webs to transmit and detect vibrational information, allowing them to sense potential prey or mates, as well as abiotic sources like wind.

Under stones and human detritus, in subterranean realms, lives troglodytic species of spider Nothophantes horridus. Nocturnally roaming in narrow fissures in this rich limestone habitat sporadically emerging. A UK biodiversity Action plan priority species, extremely rare and only exist in these two places in the world (both in Plymouth UK).
This rare arachnid  last home was a quarry, filled in with concrete and destroyed to make space for luxury unaffordable housing.

Planning permission was refused for this site in 2015, however the property developer is trying again with greenwashing plans for eco pods and activity park treating the natural world as a spectacle to be consumed and extracted from. Will this refuge for extremely rare spiders exist for much longer? Or will human greed and commerce make this spider extinct?

Failure to protect this site would be catastrophic.

A more than human space between the world that people and arachnids inhabit.

Vibrational Arachnid soundscape Radford Quarry Plymouth UK, 2024

#Nogenre 

This found its way from my room to yours.

Enjoy.

V.wip02.

Lotric

Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Mix number 7 in the Æther series comes from Italian sound artist, musician, composer and guitar maker Alessandro Barbanera. 

Over the course of an hour, Alessandro carefully explores the nuances of modern ambient music – often touching on its darker, more mysterious edges, yet never fully descending into shadows or melancholia.

Check out Alessandro's latest album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell', released by Dronarivm's dark vibes division, Owl Totem Recordings ~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

Tracklist:

00.00. Tape Loop Orchestra – I Was Born When She Kissed Me (excerpt) [from “In A Lonely Place”, Fluid Audio]
03.46. Carlo Giustini – A Letizia [from “Custodi”, ROHS! Lontano Series]
07.47. Dionisaf – March [from “Twelve Months”, Chitra Records]
12.18. Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno [from “Jump”, Le Mont Analogue]
16.08. Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertainties [from “City of Tethers”, Owl Totem Recordings]
21.22. Francis Gri – Bruma II [from “Bruma”, self-released]
25.05. Federico Mosconi – At Midnight [from “Nocturnal”, Dronarivm]
29.56. Luca Giuoco – Shantih 3 Times [from “Collettivoinconscio vol.1”, Dissipatio / Toten Schwan Records]
33.03. Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep – If Only Anything Could Change You [from “Endless Vacation”, Fluid Audio]
39.15. meanwhile.in.texas – Almost Blind [from “Heimat”, Secret Press]
42.18. Yugen (Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Konishi) – My Sounds [from “Yugen”, Disasters By Choice]
48.27. Gallery Six – Zansyuu [from “Kisetsu”, Le Mont Analogue]
52.34. Chelidon Frame – In I Reached (feat. A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) (excerpt) [from “Flatline Voyages”, Difficult Art And Music]
58.24. Macrogramma – Catedral [from “Magnetic Series”, ROHS! Lontano Series]

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera

nowhere soon

rohsrecords.bandcamp.com
Format: CD, Book, DL
Pre-order: 11th July 2025
Release date: 18th July 2025

The Washing Planck present The Dimensional Loom, an instrumental electronic album born from the desire to explore and define a distinctly steampunk sonic identity. In a musical landscape where the word “steampunk” is often confined to visual, textual, or narrative aesthetics, this project offers both a reflection and a proposition.
Without denying the literary or iconographic foundations of the genre, The Dimensional Loom seeks to translate steampunk into sound: the friction between machinery and imagination, the allure of a future that never was, the deep pulse of a parallel world built from gears, steam, and skewed visions.
What makes this album particularly unique is the creative process behind it. Where Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt was first a dramatic work to which Edvard Grieg later added music, The Washing Planck have reversed the process. The music of The Dimensional Loom was composed first—as if it were the score to an unseen drama. Only afterward was an original libretto written, giving shape to an imaginary five-act steampunk opera, with a narrative inspired directly by the music itself.
This is not an attempt to define a rigid standard, but to open a new possibility: that steampunk may also be heard, not just seen or read.

Copyright © 2025 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved


The Washing Planck - Transplant of Yggdrasill (excerpt) - Taken from "The Dimensional Loom" Album

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Zero-Dimensional Nothing of Love

Music by Matteo Mariano
Artwork by Riccardo Arena http://www.riccardoarena.org

The sounds align on their own to form a combination that comes to life and evolves. Then it flies away.

Cheope

Cheope (2005 - Abridged ver.)

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano (2007) http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Dario Panzeri (2020) http://dariopanzeri.org

Music inspired by the concept of electromagnetic catapult (mass driver), developed by Gerard K. O'Neill. We are in 2020 and space seems much further than it seemed in the 70s. 

Thanks to Dario Panzeri for the invaluable visual contribution.

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Musica ispirata al concetto di catapulta elettromagnetica (mass driver), sviluppata da Gerard K. O'Neill. Siamo nel 2020 e lo spazio sembra molto più distante rispetto a quanto poteva sembrare negli anni '70. 

Grazie a Dario Panzeri per l'inestimabile contributo visivo.

Mass Driver

Mass Driver (2007)

Sound Designer & Composer. Creates instrumental music and soundtracks for film/videos and for art exhibitions.

Perché Dormiamo? (DEMO 2007)

Macrogramma

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