context-specific sound sculpure
contact mics capture the micro vibrations of the bells excited by environmental sounds. 

still bells

"Waking Cloud" is a dynamic live-set performance, centering on intricate internal feedback processes. The piece unfolds through a series of meticulously curated feedback states, offering a delicate balance between controlled parameters and improvisational freedom. Its temporal evolution is characterized by a remarkable flexibility, capable of seamlessly adapting to the unique dynamics of each performance setting. The title of the performance, "Waking Cloud," draws inspiration from James Joyce's seminal work, "Finnegans Wake." In Joyce's novel, time experiences a feedback state, reflecting the cyclical and recursive nature of human experience. The title alludes to this theme of temporal feedback, suggesting a parallel between the fluid, ever-shifting nature of time in Joyce's narrative and the dynamic, flexible temporal development of the performance. "Waking Cloud" aims to create an immersive sonic experience where time itself becomes a fluid and malleable element, shaped by intricate feedback processes and improvisational exploration.

Waking Cloud

For processed gran piano sounds.

The piece is a tribute to the modern instrument par excellence, sound-symbol and reflection of the Western decline. The piece is an investigation inside the sound rather than of the sound. The raw material was recorded experimenting direclty on strings and soundboard. Subsequently the material was digitally processed. The form is a sequential process inspired by the intrinsic characteristics of the starting material and by the result of the signal processing.

Piano simulacrum

Nicola Casetta is a Composer and sound artist from Italy. His current work is devided into three avenues: context-specific music, concerned phonography, in situ installation and sound mapping; studio music; largely concerned with transformation of mostly acoustic and electronic materials via Musique Concrète techniques. Live Electronic Music; largely improvised and or performed in loose, with a custom modular laptop instrument based on live sampling. 
His music focuses on the use computer technology to transform, disassemble and reassemble sounds in innovative ways to create sonic drama and musical development. This involves fusion of sounds recorded in natural environments with more abstract sounds developed through electroacoustic processes, drawing on the capacity of ‘real-world’ sound to evoke novel imagery and natural points of reference for listeners. 
In the last few years Nicola has been performing live electronic music devoted to site-specific compositions in which he uses field recordings and sound synthesis. His musical research is directed to explore a possible link between natural, instrumental and electroacoustic sounds and the interdependent relationship with the place in which they are performed and heard.
Over many years he has collected a personal phonography archive and developed a very attentive listening toward the sounds of the world. He recently started to engaged himself with the presentation of his field recordings and with environmental installations.

In 2014 Nicola was an artist in residence at Moks, Center for Art and Social Practice (Estonia), supported by the project DE.MO./Movin'Up by the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities (MiBAC) as well as the Estonian Ministry of Culture. He was also an artist in residence at Røst (Norway) supported by the Norwegian Ministry.
His music has been perfomed at Boreali in Bergen (NO), Festival DME in Lisbon (PT), Festival Zeit fur Neue Musik in Rockhenhausen (DE), Frameworkradio in London (UK), Manifeste Ircam in Paris, Ma/In in Matera, 8th FKL Symposium, NYCEMF 2015, ICMC 2014 in Athens, XX CIM in Rome, SoundKitchen (UK), Sweet Thunder Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music in San Francisco (US), UCSD Music - CPMC Theathre in San Diego (US), VII Simposio Internazionale FKL, Premio Phonologia in Milan, Silence Acusmatica 2013, Segnali 12-13-14, Distanze 2013 and 2014, Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto 2012, Atomino Experimental Festival among others.

Nicola is currently Professor of Electroacustic Composition at the Conservatory of Alessandria and Teramo. He also thought courses Live Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Perugia and Electroacustic at the Conservatory of Nocera Terinese and Ferrara.

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