Costanzo Porta: Magnificat 2i toni a due chori spezzati

Just put the cricket soud into a sampler and play the desired melody or chord in a very low octave! That's it!

Crickets are singing Stille Nacht

The chosen motto for the Soundscape-Landscape Festival 2013 in Stanzia Castellani was the 148th psalm, which is devoted entirely to the praise of God. In it all the heavenly and earthly creatures one by one give thanks for their Creator.
Cicadas are real psalmists. Their infinite recital is the most definite sound in the summer soundscape of Cres Island. Therefore it seemed obvious that we should train at least one cicada to be able to learn and sing this psalm while the festival is on.
But since this is not really a task of us mortals to make insects recite, we had to choose a less miraculous way to produce a cicada-psalm. So we have set up a digital sound equivalent to the real cicada-tone, then we added another slight vibrating sound to gain exact pitch.
Surprising enough there’s only one gregorian chant in the Liber Usualis which has its whole text from Psalm 148 namely the graduale from the Votive Mass of the Holy Angels. Therefore ve recorded this very melody and put out a hidden speaker on a tree near the pathway leading through the woods and we let all the visitors just passing by. Then it was left totally to their 
perception whether they could notice that there is one cicada praising the Lord.

Laudate Dominum omnes cicadis eius

There are 36 stellar constellations on the night sky which can be seen in August from the land of Stanzia Castellani. There is an old upright piano, in the legacy of George Gallup Jr., which now can be visited and be visited and listened to in the little farmhouse, the “Stala”, at Stanzia’s.

The music piece “Constellani” is a unique combination, a recent constellation of the two given entities, the night sky and the piano.

The method of composition is so simple. An average sky-chart gives an accurate grid to the stars, which measurement can be easily transformed to musical information, such as time, pitch and dynamics.

So, a recording was made at the “Stala”, the constellation were played on the old piano. After that, a complex chain of digital reverb effects was added to the pure sound in order to express the “endless and timeless” feeling of the night sky above.

The title Constellani is referring again to its dual and very actual meaning: the constellations which can be seen from the Earth are played on the piano resided in the same land: Stanzia Castellani.

Composed and played by Zoltán Mizsei, "endless reverb" and recording by Ábris Gryllus

Constellani

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