for flute and live electronics

alto flute, Ekaterina Polonskaya
live electroncs, Riccardo Castagnola

-- 
"Misty day
in evening mountain's shadow
candyman's flute"

> Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828 <

Kasumu

Stereo reduction (from 8-ch) of the fist movement of "Diospyros Ebanum", a tripartite composition about cello. 
Like cutting an ebony log here we gradually find different sound strata, which are just traces of my utopian cello. 
For me they behave like different characters who enter an empty scenery and try to gain their place and define their role in a sound play that is about to begin.

Diospyros Ebenum: Preludio D'Alburno (Stereo Mix)

(2018) excerpts of the binaural sound installation "Andere Töne: Heimat #3 – Infinite Stream". 
WARNING! binaural sound ! LISTEN TO IT WITH HEADPHONES!

https://theaterbremen.de/de_DE/kalender/andere-toene-heimat-3-infinite-stream.15364645

(2018) surreal instrumental atmospheres inspired by the notorious manga "Attack on Titan" by Hajime Isayama.

4 Attack!

3 Political Decisions

2 Spy

1 Giant Field

Some demo tracks for the upcoming shortfilm "Erika | really | normal | days"
stay tuned
http://www.erika-film.de/

Erika - dream or reality

Erika - Tema

In einer abgelegenen Forschungseinheit untersuchten vor mehr als 70 Jahren Wissenschaftler die Folgen des Schlafentzuges am lebendigen Objekt. Unwissentlich erweckten sie dabei ein Grauen, das nun in den Ruinen der Labore keine Ruhe mehr finden kann. Im Rahmen eines szenischen Konzertes fügen sich verschiedene schaurige Musikstücke, unter anderem von Liszt, Yamaoka und Penderecki, zu einer neuen und unheimlichen Klangkomposition zusammen.

Musik: Riccardo Castagnola
Regie: Dany Handschuh, Levin Handschuh
Bühne und Kostüme: Sofia Korcinskaja
Mit: Martin Baum

Mountains Of Madness

"In-Somnia" originates from recordings of a soundwalk I did in a last winter late night in the suburbs of Bologna (IT). 
In the loneliness of this context I was attracted by different sounds whose real source was mostly hidden to my sight. 
In particular I followed a strange bird-call-like sound which became more and more unreal as much I got close to his source point, which was revealed to me only when I was in front of it: a broken car alarm which produced irregular impulses instead of the common continuous sound. 

I consider the piece my interpretation of this personal sound epiphany experience, and more in general (for those who didn't experienced it) a wander throughout mental, real and surreal soundscapes, in a perpetual search for something unknown. 

World Premiere at Salford SONIC FUSION Festival 2013 (22/03/2013)

In-Somnia

Composer, Performer, Media Artist

He studied Electronic Music and Composition at Conservatorio G.B. Martini (Bologna, IT) and at Hochschule für Künste Bremen (GER).
2015-16 he was Meisterschüler in “Temporal Media” at the HfK Bremen (Prof. Jean-Fraçois Guiton), with focus on interactivity between sound, image and gesture.
He improved himself through workshops with international composers, performer and sound artists such as D. Smalley, B. Parmegiani, S. Sciarrino, A. Mayr, F. Bayle, P. Billone, M. Belli, A. Soto, B. Fort, F. Maheu, L. Sonami, J. O’Callaghan, R. Normandeau.

Since 2018 he teaches Sound Design at the Hochschule Bremerhaven (Digital Media Department) and gives workshops about electroacoustic techniques for live sound in cooperation with Theater SCHLACHTHOF.

His soundtrack for the silent movie "die Leuchte Asiens" (1925, F. Osten) was screened at Berlinale 2018.

2018 he started the project ElekTrAktions, a multimedia electroacoustic performative serie in Bremen, in cooperation with Theater SCHLACHTHOF and the support of Senator für Kultur Bremen.

2017 he was finalist at the FRANZ LISZT - Scholarship (Akusmatische Komposition) in Weimar.

His works and activities spread among electroacoustic and instrumental composition, live music for performance, dance and theatre, free improvisation, sound direction, sound design for film and multimedia interactive installation, analysis of electroacoustic music. All shown in international festivals (GER, UK, FR, BR, IT, GR, NL, CA).

He regularly cooperates with different institutions in the field of free improvisation and multimedia performance, such as Ensemble New Babylon (Bremen, GER) Theater Bremen (GER), Weserburg Museum (Bremen, GER) and Tempo Reale (Florence, IT).

2010 - 2013 he was copy editor of MusicaElettronica.it, an Italian blog about experimental music and art.

Riccardo Castagnola

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