Blob Tragedy

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signs III, sqr is the new ep of Opera23. This is the third of four chapters that the Italian composer, based in Barcelona, offers us as a progressive path of writing and listening. Each chapter investigates the relationship between gesture and sound and how the creative instinct predominates in the early stages, to be progressively overwhelmed by rationalization. In this pyramid-like path, Opera23 chooses to start releasing the third stage, the square, which represents, in the intentions, the best compromise in the search for balance. The harmony is not complex, the rhythm is recognizable and is structured on understandable repetitions, the few melodic lines can be memorized. Using these elements, the aim was to create complex and related stresses. The symmetrical perception of the square must be perceived but not understood, the compositional sense is inspired by completeness and not by the closed form.
The EP consists of three songs, one of which, Apolo 303, is a remix of a composition by a young and very good producer, Crunkid. The idea of adding a remix comes from the desire to filter, through a rational subtraction, the strong impact, the freshness and the originality that distinguishes the style of Crunkid. The result does not claim to be a modification of the original piece, on the contrary, it is almost an answer.
"signs" is a "shameless" attempt to directly involve the listener in the creative process, so that an ideal dialogue between action and reaction can be created. After the constant repetitions of "Internal with figures, lights. And shadows", his debut album, Opera23 continues his research path by proposing with this Ep a piece of a construction from whose total architecture the artist's complete compositional thought can emerge, devoid of any filter.
signs III, sqr has been composed and recorded by Opera23 (Barcelona, 2020) mix and mastering by Giuliano Cobelli (Taak Studios, Barcelona)

3. Apolo - 303 (remix)

2. Complex Square

1. Complex Forced Angles

The path of Opera23 continues, presenting the second of the four ep, which form the series entitled "Signs". It is a journey through the various compositional stages that the artist faces and shares with the listeners. A careful analysis between gesture and action, a relationship that in a totally digital age seems to have dissolved. After proposing the first episode, square, in this second ep, Opera23 analyzes the initial manifestation of the creative process: the line. Line is the primordial element of art, where reason seems to succumb to the immediacy of the gesture. The line represents the exasperation of basic concepts, the numerical justification of irrationality.
Listening to these pieces certainly cannot meet the help of repetition - a dominant feature in many compositions by the Italian composer-, the harmonic elements are limited, almost non-existent, there is no driving rhythm, no melodies. Listening, as well as the composition, follows a line in which the elements present develop an irregular path, in constant evolution.
With these premises Opera23 proposes 4 different pieces, linked by a character of research and sound investigation.
Neowise is a composition for double bass and electronics. The sound of the double bass was directly recorded and then treated with a ring modulator, an analog delay, filters and saturators.
Prologo per una stagione all’inferno is a piece for solo voice, recorded in Bologna in 2018. The voice is by the virtuoso Luca Fattori, while the text is taken from Arthur Rimbaud's “Saison en enfer". It is a piece in which the voice is investigated, elaborated and re-proposed to create a choral and dramatic reading of a page of high literature. Engram was initially born as a soundtrack for a short film by the Japanese visionary director Toshio Matsumoto "Engram: Kioku konseki", later it was converted into an independent piece without losing the strong experimental and research character due to the initial relationship with the sequences of the Japanese director.
Eoseco is a composition born from the collaboration with the Italian painter and sculptor Giorgio Bevignani. This is a piece composed on the occasion of the vernissage of Artefiera 2019 in which Bevignani exhibited a preview of his work which, in fact, was entitled, Eoseco. This composition was initially born as an electroacoustic piece for an 8 speaker system, then has undergone several variations over time until this final version, in which was added a line of arpeggios created with a modular synthesizer.
The songs were recorded between Bologna and Barcelona, the master was made by Giuliano "Gius" Cobelli.

3. Engram

2. Prologo Per Una Stagione All'inferno

1. Neowise

opera23 (aka Vincenzo Germano). Producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. After classical studies (composition, double bass, electronic and electroacoustic music) he developed a profound interest in sound research and construction and its spatialization. His language blends the experience of repetition, reduction, through the use of technology.
He has composed music for cinema, theater, installations and has produced different releases

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