text score: Renato Grieco
voice: Mu Ottley
©
released by Second Sleep as part of the compilation Pool Position
featuring Alice Kemp, Renato Grieco, Ottaven, Charmaine Lee, Francesco Cavaliere, Primorje, Rudolf Eb.er, Aniello.

the most intense light experience this voice has ever had

©
basse de viole fantasia 
Napoli 23.01.2025
picture by Antonella Giunta
Palermo 23.12.2024

unlike the snail

ESTATE is the debut AKHET Edizioni issue: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in AKHET’s first year of site-specific programming in Naples historic centre.

The 26-track compilation features Aspec(t), Ausschuss, Cadaver Mike, Canedicoda, CECILIA, Ciro Vitiello, Compsa, D.Ham, Deskulling, Eks, Elisha Morningstar, Elvin Brandhi, Eraclio, Flora Yin-Wong, Forest Factory, Franco Franco, I Jahbar, Koenraad Ecker, las vegan, Le grand K, Lorenzo Abattoir, Luigi Monteanni, MIIIN---AMOR, Nocturnerror, NPLGNN, NZIRIA, Radford Electronics, Rabit, Renato Grieco, Sara Persico, STILL, Talpah, Tarawangsawelas, Tati au Miel, and Yokel, serving as a convergence of dissonant practices and collective gestures. Traversing the volatile terrains of noise, improvised sound, avant-garde folk, experimental rap, and post-club mutations, each piece embodies the tension between transient environments and enduring creative dialogues.

ESTATE, the Italian word for “summer”, concludes AKHET’s first cycle of programming. This cycle, reflecting on the impermanence of seasons, unfolded through three mini-festivals ("Autunno", "Inverno" and "Primavera") and a traveling review ("Caldo Astratto"). In a time when seasons melt into one another and winter feels disturbingly melded, ESTATE serves as a temporal marker, reimagined here amidst shifting climatic and cultural cycles.

Conceived as both artifact and reusable ephemeral, the release materializes as a limited edition of 101 tin cans designed by Canedicoda, each containing a USB microchip and other delicacies, while photographs by Salvatore Pastore document its materiality. The digital artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua extends this material dimension into a visual language that resonates with the conceptual and aesthetic framework of the release.

Curated by AKHET.

Mastered by Heba Kadry (Track 1) and Guido Marziale (Tracks 2 to 26).
Design by Canedicoda.
Photography by Salvatore Pastore.
Artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua.

Cat. No. AKHT001
© AKHET Edizioni 2025

Le Grand K - Trip9love--->per6volti%

Renato Grieco & Canedicoda - Torcivolto

For Mediterranean Futures, kNN tinkers with a quill that pierces history, getting lost between the springs and the mouth through a subtext grafted in southern Italy. Bespeak the last among the last.

kNN is the moniker of Renato Grieco, composer and musician from Naples, south Italy.
Since 2012 Renato has been performing around the world both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborations as a musician, performer and sound dramaturge. His music is a complex cornucopia that origins from the musique concrète craftsmanship, culminating to orchestrations in which period instruments, imaginary lutherie, and sculptural rooms coexist. Speculative folklore, vocal architecture, and hauntology are the kernel of kNN’s poetics.
https://www.instagram.com/ 	knn 	/
With @knnsounds 


Vernacolaria w/ kNN (13.02.2025)

Cosmos-Cosmos [excerpt]

Michal Libera - dramaturgy, libretto
Tomasz Nosinski - voice
Le Quan Ninh - percussion
Ingar Zach - percussion
Witold Gombrowicz - text

Fragments of "Cosmos" by Witold Gombrowicz in English (translated by Danuta Bockhardt, Yale, 2005): 

A soaring bird appeared
—high in the sky, immobile—
vulture, hawk, eagle?
No, it was not a sparrow,
and by the very reason of not being a sparrow
it was after all a non-sparrow,
and being a non-sparrow,
it was,
in a small way,
a sparrow. 

When the door opened, the cavern of the small,
low room that gave off a bitter, oppressive odor,
like that of a laundry room, or bread, or herbs,
that cavern of EEEEEHM.

I looked around,
nothing, silence, calm,
I looked again.
A hanging man. 
Ludwik? Ludwik.

He was hanging.
And yet this FACT was hanging,
a hanging fact,
a Ludwik-like fact was hanging,
hitting one on the head,
a fact that was big, heavy,
hanging down,
something like a bull roaming about on the
loose,
an enormous fact on a pine tree,
and with shoes 

like a, b, c, d 

What consistency!

A stupid corpse was becoming a logical corpse
—though the logic was both heavy-handed
… and too much my own … 
personal 
… so …
separate … 
private 

A stupid corpse – a logical corpse.
They are like those magnetized balls,
they search for one another,
and when they’re close: pam 
pam, pam, pam, pam 
And its hanging brutality,
pam, pam, pam, pam,
was skillfully uniting with pam, pam, pam, pam,
sparrow—stick—cat,
it was like a, b, c, d,
like one, two, three, four!
What skill!
What zeal for logic.

Why couldn’t he have strangled the cat, hanged it? 
I had strangled it. 
Yes, I had hanged it. 
I had hanged it, strangled it, 
but he could have … 
He could have hanged it! 
But if he had not hanged the cat (because I had hanged it), 
he could have, in any case, hanged the sparrow …
and the stick!

Come closer,
touch,
enfold,
embrace,
and love
to the point of madness.

I began to walk across the field.

Cosmos-Cosmos [excerpt] - in French

Sociologist working in sound and music field since 2003, recently involved mostly in producing and staging sound essays and other experimental forms of radio art and opera which brought him to collaborate with Martin Küchen, Pete Simonelli, Ralf Meinz, Komuna// Warszawa, Hilary Jeffery, Apartment House and others; producer of conceptual pop label Populista dedicated to mis- and over- interpretation of music as well as series of reinterpretations of music made in Polish Radio Experimental Studio (Bôłt Records); curator of various concerts, festivals and anti-festivals and music programs for exhibitons; member of art group called „Grupa Budapeszt”.

Cosmos-Cosmos [excerpt] - in French

Michal Libera

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