magnifico gondoliere (e matematico e letterato e compositore), che sei, Mauro! Un caro saluto! Ermes

one instance of Serum+ ODD Sound MTS in 18 EDO

Saphire Split

taken from ET-100
http://www.archive.org/details/ET-100

ET-100 | Fermium

Yoichi Ichikawa - Well Tuned Metal (Excerpt) | ET-100

Rege - Madaro

Long-time collaborator Marco Lucchi provides sublime, longform pieces (most 15+ minutes), which Henrik has carefully imbued with his cello.

ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva

Featuring artwork from Luca Lionello, it touches on ancient mystic ideas and sentiment, attempting the impossible task of touching the sublime through art.

Suggestiva

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Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Dante (Streaming Edit)

12月17日(土)農事センター「やり残したこと」
で制作した楽曲

Ultra

for string quartet and electronics

Paris, Centre Pompidou June 7th 2017
Quatuor Diotima

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As a kid we had a television set with an antenna that rotated (you could rotate it from inside of your house). When the major channels would go off-air you could rotate it and pick up strange other channels from smaller cities around - from across the border, Buffalo and so on - and you would see strange things, that were kind of hard to see (there was a lot of static) and it was very intriguing to watch that kind of things. That was really the core, the crystal at the centre of this movie: my experience with that thinking “what if the images that you pulled up were really quite extreme, disturbing, possibly illegal, and what would you think then, would you keep seeking out those channels or would you call the police or what would you do, how would you respond to them?”

David Cronenberg on his movie Videodrome (commentary track of the Criterion Collection BlueRay)

The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking (probably the most famous and certainly the longest signal hijacking ever) that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States on the evening of November 22, 1987. The signal pirates, whose identities were never found, succeeded in getting their broadcast intruded onto WTTW (a local Public Broadcasting Service television station).
The pirate broadcast, which lasted 90 endless seconds, featured an individual disguised as Max Headroom (a sci-fi computer-generated television character quite popular in the 80s, coming from dystopian near-future dominated by television and large corporations).
Around 11:15 p.m. an episode of the British TV-Series Doctor Who was suddenly interrupted by television static, after which an unidentified man wearing a Max Headroom mask and sunglasses appeared. The man started to moan, scream and laugh, uttering various random phrases (the audio was distorted and crackling), including New Coke's advertising slogan "Catch the Wave" while holding a Pepsi can (Max Headroom was a Coca-Cola spokesperson at the time). He then tossed the can out of sight, presented his middle finger wearing a rubber extension, sang an excerpt of “I’m losing you” (a 1966 Motown hit recorded by the Temptations), hummed the theme song of Clutch Cargo (a clumsily-animated television series of the 60s), moaned painfully complaining about his piles, farted, put on and off a giant glove (similar to the one worn by Michael Jackson at the time). He then partially exposed his buttocks, howling: "They're coming to get me!”, while an unidentified female accomplice wearing a French maid outfit started to spank him with a flyswatter. The transmission then blacked out for a few seconds before resuming the Doctor Who episode in progress.

“The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident” features a string quartet “enhanced” with transducers and preparations. 
The digital processing of the instruments is largely inspired by the same modulation techniques that were - and still are - commonly used for radio and television transmission. 
The piece, an hommage to obsolete or soon-to-be deprecated technologies and to the media-dominated, dark future that the “cyberpunk” sci-fi of 80s foretold, is dedicated to the memory of Fausto Romitelli.

Mauro Lanza - "The 1987 Max Headroom broadcast incident" (2017)

Per Trio con Pianoforte

sabato 3 febbraio 2018
Torino, Teatro Vittoria
Trio Kanon

"Sans doute ce chant insignifiant, entendu cent fois, ne m’intéressait nullement. Je ne pouvais faire plaisir à personne ni à moi-même en l’écoutant aussi religieusement jusqu’au bout. Enfin aucun des motifs, connues d’avance par moi, de cette vulgaire romance ne pouvait me fournir la résolution dont j’avais besoin; bien plus, chacune de ces phrases, quand elle passait à son tour, devenait un obstacle à prendre efficacement cette résolution, ou plutôt elle m’obligeait à la résolution contraire de ne pas partir, car elle me faisait passer l’heure. Par là cette occupation sans plaisir en elle-même d’écouter « ‘o sole mio » se chargeait d’une tristesse profonde, presque désespérée.”

Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue  


Augusto Salvatori fut conseiller municipale à Venise. Il vécut un moment de célébrité en 1986 lorsque il invita les gondolier à ne plus chanter “O sole mio” et d’autres mélodies napolitaines, et à leur préférer des chansons autochtones. Une strafexpedition de douze musiciens parthénopéens arriva en lagune peu après pour protester contre cet oukase. Guitares, tambourins et mandolines gagnèrent, et la paix entre les deux villes fut signée devant un risotto au poisson. Les gondoliers continuèrent (et continuent) à chanter à gorge déployée la célèbre chanson d’Eduardo di Capua dans les canaux de Venise.

John Horton Conway est un mathématicien britannique. Il est connu auprès du grand public surtout pour avoir inventé le “the game of life”, le plus celèbre de tous les automates cellulaires. Ce “jeu” se déroule sur une grille à deux dimensions, dont les cases — qu’on appelle des « cellules » — peuvent prendre deux états distincts : « vivantes » ou « mortes ». Chaque état de la grille conduit mécaniquement à l’état suivant à partir de règles pré-établies. Des groupes de cellules peuvent ainsi osciller de manière cyclique, se figer dans de configurations statiques, se déplacer à l’infini en laissant derrière elles une traînée de débris.

Si on met en relation les deux dimensions de la grille avec des paramètres musicaux, ces règles peuvent être un moyen inédit d’engendrer des variations sur un thème. Dans ce court trio les atomes qui composent célèbre melodie qui hantait Proust lors de son séjour en lagune prolifèrent, se décomposent, se figent, semblablement aux cellules binaires du jeu de la vie et d’autres automates cellulaires.

Mauro Lanza - John Conway In Gondola -in compagnia di Marcel Proust e Augusto Salvadori- (2016)

Sometimes when you speak, I'm not there

for Daisuke

Giovanni di Domenico, L'inutile

yes, i still have my 303 :)

percussions with some acid and a fragile pad

https://tunnelone.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-tunnels

Mauro Lanza - John Conway In Gondola -in compagnia di Marcel Proust e Augusto Salvadori- (2016)

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