ROBERTO BEGINI - AGOSTO14

FIELD 1 - SCALA DEI TURCHI 6.32 Materials from Scala dei Turchi, Realmonte, Sicily
FIELD 2 - MESSINA 5.30 Materials from Messina, Sicily
EXCERPT 6.28 Materials from Rome (field and studio recordings)
FIELD 3 - SOLITUDO 6.09 Materials from Favignana Island, Sicily

Total lenght: 24.40

Recorded in Rome, september 2014
Mixed and mastered at G-Chain Studio, Rome, september 2014

Pictures―what lies behind the taking of a picture? Don't we all desire to catch what we see, to
playback what we hear? It's an archetypal human disposition, perhaps, the world's “call for
narration.” When places reveal themselves, when their secrets align with our sentiments, we are
thrown into a state of creation; we are urged to narrate.

And every place is unique. That is why the “journal de voyage” is a common practice in the art of
field recording: traveling, for the musician, is a perfect solution. Geophysical outline, color-sound
personality, plant forms, animals, human influences―every place is unparalleled.

Agosto14 began as a collection of material recorded during a stay in southern Italy. The initial goal
was simply a journal of soundscapes. But I later realized I could not leave this material untouched; I
felt an irresistible calling to manipulate the recordings, add other sounds, give it structure, make my
music. I had explored a place; this was my call for narration.

Each Piece of Agosto14 starts with a personal, collected, concrete sound, and evolves in a musical
way. In the opening track there are sounds from the Scala dei Turchi, a sedimentary rock cliff in
southern Sicily. In August the place is white and big, filled by sunlight, reflections and human noises.
In Messina I caught some weird, concrete sounds from the port and the boats as they were passing.
The center is filled with this repetitive mechanical sound, like a rhythm was coming from the boat's
core.
The third piece is an interval, a concrete composition from studio and field materials recorded in
Rome. There are some object-manipulating studio sounds and a bass drone coming from my home
refrigerator.
The last piece, Solitudo, starts from a soundscape of Favignana island, at night, one of the rare
places you can still record a pure soundscape, devoid of human noises.

Recommendation: this work would better affect your listening experience with headphones

http://oakeditions.bandcamp.com/album/agosto14

Agosto14 preview (Oak Editions)

ROBERTO BEGINI - AGOSTO14

FIELD 1 - SCALA DEI TURCHI 6.32 Materials from Scala dei Turchi, Realmonte, Sicily

Recorded in Rome, september 2014
Mixed and mastered at G-Chain Studio, Rome, september 2014

Agosto14 began as a collection of material recorded during a stay in southern Italy. The initial goal
was simply a journal of soundscapes. But I later realized I could not leave this material untouched; I
felt an irresistible calling to manipulate the recordings, add other sounds, give it structure, make my
music. I had explored a place; this was my call for narration.

Recommendation: this work would better affect your listening experience with headphones

oakeditions.bandcamp.com/album/agosto14


Field 1 - Scala dei Turchi

ROBERTO BEGINI - AGOSTO14

EXCERPT 6.28 Materials from Rome (field and studio recordings)

Recorded in Rome, september 2014
Mixed and mastered at G-Chain Studio, Rome, september 2014

Agosto14 began as a collection of material recorded during a stay in southern Italy. The initial goal
was simply a journal of soundscapes. But I later realized I could not leave this material untouched; I
felt an irresistible calling to manipulate the recordings, add other sounds, give it structure, make my
music. I had explored a place; this was my call for narration.

Recommendation: this work would better affect your listening experience with headphones

oakeditions.bandcamp.com/album/agosto14

Excerpt

R.Begini & A.Boccadoro - Soundtrack for the short movie "Rhino" (direction Ronen Eldar, London Film School, 2015)

"Rhino" short movie soundtrack (with A. Boccadoro)

That's You soundtrack demo (with A. Boccadoro)

Eidos Live - opening to Negativland - Init Club, Rome, 2016

THE PATH, PART 2

The Path is a listening journey, it’s a tendency that my personal research is taking. I started to discover a certain kind of temporality in the music that I listened, despite the very different genres. I might define this temporality “dilated” or “circular”: a really different one from the linear time typical of the tonal music (for example in the basic form of beginning-climax-ending). The circular time, also called “vertical”, it’s present in almost all music focused on the timbre and on the concrete sound, but also it’s present in a lot of ancient and ethnic music: for example the modal music, in many different cultures and historical periods.  The Path is a musical flow, divided into parts, and presented as a series of podcasts. It is a mix that embraces many styles, in this common ground of dilated time.

http://sonofmarketing.com/2016/12/19/mixtape-roberto-begini-the-path-part-2/

TRACKLIST:

Taylor Deupree – Sea Last
Robert Henke – Infinite Sands
Giusto Pio – Motore Immobile
Fennesz – On A Desolate Shore A Shadow Passes By
La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM (“The Black Album”)
Midori Takada – Crossing
Bernard Parmegiani – De Natura Sonorum (samples from)
Lino Capra Vaccina – Ondulazione Melodica
Autechre – Paralel Suns
Pan Sonic – Linjat / Lines
Oren Ambarchi – Quixotism Part 5
Terry Riley – Descending Moonshine Dervishes


Link to PART 1:
http://www.electronique.it/podcast/16934-e-p-276-dj-edition-roberto-begini

The Path, part 2

Music composer / producer, sound designer.

www.robertobegini.com

Italian music composer / producer, sound designer and electronic music performer. His work is currently focused on contemporary electronic and elctroacoustic music, with a particular interest in the ambient and drone approach. He is co-founder and member of the electronic music project Kolmitt, and has taken part in several other projects in the past.

Roberto Begini