Florian Guibert - extended flute, kalimbas, objects and FX
Nicola Lancerotti - modular synths and 4-tracks tape

“Right after dusk and just before dawn, when light and darkness share a moment together, real and otherworldly sounds creep in and delight our ears, unsettling or soothing, like dewdrops and frost, like stepping on fortune cookies"

LLIAN emerged from the encounter of musicians Nicola Lancerotti and Florian Guibert. From the first day, the musical dialogue that naturally took place between the two protagonists sparked the need for more.

LLIAN is a project revolving around sound, how it is generated, how it is modified, how it is directed, where it comes from, how it affects people’s perception. Mixing acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, field recordings or Chinese epic tales, the first thing that our first experimentations evoked were nocturnal creepy-crawlies and sea salps. A music that can be mysterious and soothing, somewhat related to those fuzzy hours between night and day.

LLIAN - november in the studio, part 2

Florian Guibert - augmented flute and effects
Nicola Lancerotti - modular synthesizers and effects

Recorded and mixed by llian in Brussels in November 2022
Mastered by Jon Patch in summer 2023

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My music explores the boundaries – of what is -or is not- possible – of what listening can be. It is certainly not pleasing to the ear and no concessions are made to the listener. My music is quite rough.
Pure sound. You could call it theatrical layered sound. Or Theatrical Sound Music. Well, It was never my intention to lose you, dear beloved listener, but to lead you into my world - I know most people drop out. It's heavy stuff indeed. But that's also what I myself like the most. Personally, I prefer difficult music to melodious or easy-sounding electronic music.
From now - you are on your own, dearly beloved listener! 
Just as I am by making my music. 
There is no community out there that will help you tell whether this is good or not - and neither am I - you are here alone with these sounds from now on, just like I am.
The Best! Willy

TRIO3

SOLO for percussion set and effect pedals
Recorded on 11.8.23, 
Brussels

Irrational Bird

From Chie Otomi & Hirotaka Shirotsubaki's Season of Wandering, out now on tape and digital:

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/season-of-wandering

Chie Otomi & Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - April Lantern Magic

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Zound Delta 2

Insight

Finally returning to Italy (Sardinia to be precise) post Covid in a couple of months to go on residency. In anticipation of this adventure I will upload a few Italy based works from festivals etc that i have made over the last few years. This work  premiered as part of the 2021 Helicotrema festival. Official arty wanky explanation below:
'Whilst my yearly travel to Italy from my hometown of Hobart in Australia is halted due to the pandemic I have been increasingly aware of other more subtle forms of travel. In particular, how sound itself travels has become an important aspect of my research with more sound files being sent across the globe and conversations with other artists via zoom and mobile phone replacing the face to face communication I have been used to. 

Sound travels at 1225kms an hour but ever since radio broadcasting was developed we can hear things from anywhere in the world instantly. Sound can ,in a way ,also time-travel - I can play recordings from the past and re-live the experience of being there. 

With these ideas in mind I wrote (the work  using a live stream audio stream from Venice that was mixed with a live local recording 13.5 hours (the time the sound would have taken to travel to Hobart) after it was broadcast. This combined audio recording of Venice and Hobart formed the raw material which was manipulated and arranged to evoke some of the many sensations of physical travel - movement, wonder, fear, enchantment, loneliness and adventure. 

Unedited field recordings from my archives are introduced at the 4 minute mark - one of the Grande Canal sent to me in 2019 and one of the main highway in my hometown which I sent to a colleague in Italy in 2020. These recordings capture the main routes of travel in their respective cities and bridge the past with the present creating a sound collage that travels through time.

In keeping with the theme of how sound travels the entire piece was written and mixed in 13.5hours, echoing the time it would take for sound to travel between Hobart and Venice.'

Viaggio di andata

Performers: Ian Ellul, violin — Alexander Leman, piano
Recorded on 17/05/2024 at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

Tidwir (2024) for violin and piano

1. tiktik knocknock
2. What’s Upping U? 
3. the constant Same 
4. too much adult shit (interlude)
5. floating synapses (II) 
6. sad neurons
7. my clock is ticking  
9. Face between Heart and Brain

This album is about overthinking and overanalysing everything, which can cause the loss of trusting intuition/heart. With analysis paralysis resulting: not advancing and staying in the same whirl of thoughts and choices. Having so much to do, you can’t do anything because of only being able to think of what to do. Or when answering difficult questions, thinking about how severe (or not) your answer will influence your interlocutor and therefore not being able to answer, which obviously influences them too.

These things can be really unpleasant but I think kind of solvable. For me, the making of this album helped. Still, I think it's something hard to overcome and it's a process in life. Anyway, good luck to all the over thinkers Out There! And I hope this music can bring something to you. 

An ode to Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Cover by Elaine.

Thinking Beats

doublebass, bass, modular and electronic devices

LLIAN - november in the studio, part 2

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