I am over 3000 years old and play the viola. I also play synths sometimes.

Foley'Ala (Bucharest/Cluj-Napoca)
Alin Zăbrăuţeanu – composition, foley, electronics, live processing
Koszika – voice, violin
Maria Petrescu – oboe, recorder
Radu Rădescu – manager, concept, percussion

Foley’Ala is a band that has been active in its current composition since 2018, as an ad-hoc formula of sound design & live scoring for screenings of silent films accompanied by music. The band creates an original acoustic environment, performed live in the form of a quasi-improvisation of (re)construction of the soundtrack for films that marked the history of cinema during the Great Silent era. The instrumental formula, in the different projects of the ensemble, can be variable, including (in the period 2013-2018), depending on the needs of the sound solutions, a cello or a violin. The cine-concert projects of the band are made in a non-conformist manner, through a unique musical approach, combining the classical, cross-over and electro-acoustic style. The electronic sound approach aims to reach new areas of exploration of revolutionary films in their time, but released long before the digital age, and the insertions of spoken words are meant to generate unusual associations of ideas, states and meanings between the moving image and text. The original soundtrack invented for these projects consists of a mixture of contemporary sounds, industrial rhythms, synthesizers, acoustic instruments (oboe, recorder, violin, percussion) and voice, with live electronic modulations. In addition to modern-inspired improvisations, the atmosphere of the film rescoring is complemented by live foley, sound effects and reading interventions of excerpts from literary works, in the reading of "The Voices of the Movies", film critic Irina Margareta Nistor.

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