Commissioned by the GAIDA festival (Vilnius). 1st performance: 28th of October, Vilnius St. Catherine Church, GAIDA festival, perf. Jauna Muzika choir, cond. Vaclovas Augustinas 

Concept/composition: Justė JANULYTĖ                                                           Electronics - creation/performance: Michele TADINI/Antonello RAGGI

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One and I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds (from Bhagavad Gītā), – so was talking Julius Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director at Manhattan Project, after the first artificial nuclear explosion 'Trinity test' near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16th July 1945.

"Radiance" is a metaphoric reflection of the anatomic/philosophy, energetics/poetics of the nuclear explosion; intending to be a requiem for the victims of the first atomic bombing. The genetic code of the piece is a duality and ambiguity symbolized by the Bhagavad Gītā phrase and refers to the initial, purely scientific enthusiasm of the Manhattan Project in inventing the atomic bomb; and its apocalyptic consequences after dropping it on inhabited areas. The structure of the composition is an overlap of two antiphonic processes of radiation: two groups of high and low choir voices that initially "live" in a unison start radiating, splitting (fission), because of the strong attraction between opposites poles, their territories get closer, until, they completely merge (fusion). Therefore the explosion becomes inevitable. Justė Janulytė

Creation and production of the electronic part of Radiance involves several real-time processes of augmentation, de-humanization, and transfiguration of the sonic material, in line with the poetic frame set by Janulytė’s idea. The progressive accumulation, distortion, and polarization of different vocal registers takes the listener into a different flow of time where the natural logic of action-consequence is being destroyed, and therefore the catastrophe is always happening, or has not happened yet. In the end, in the little details that only a macroscopic stretch of time and sound can reveal, we can find seeds of beauty from which we can go on after the tragedy. Antonello Raggi

"Radiance" for choir and live electronics (2015)

Extracted from "Basílica of Sta. Maria del Mar", the 2nd track of CSFCMMCAB's "Santoral Interior" CD.
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Santoral Interior

Basílica de Sta. Maria del Mar

Virolai a la Mare de Déu de Montserrat + Goigs a Sant Enric

Electronic piece composed in 2014 and mended in 2022!

Studio Mastering: lorenzotarghetta@gmail.com

V-idiom

Complete track 03 from @csfcmmcab's "Santoral Interior" CD.

Video: https://youtu.be/zLKQqhDVDAc

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Església de St. Jaume

palette sources — sampled feedback from moogerfooger delay (various channel inputs from lapsteel, mother32, dfam)sampled into MPC3K. The field recording is of a trip to a coffee shop where four young teenagers were trying to keep each other laughing for approximately 1m30s.

concept — creating a foundation with the delay feedback from a bass-y synth segment, and layering sampled phrases on top of that developed around feedback swells.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: disquiet.com/0590/ About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project

DeAmaral [disquiet0590]

I did this track in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression. Below are the steps I took.

Steps:

-record a tone using a single back-and-forth motion with bowed bass guitar
-in Reaper, stretch it to 1/10 speed retaining original frequency
-record onto 1/4" tape @ 7 1/2 ips 
-play back at half-speed (3 3/4 ips), creating a ~7-minute passage
-feed into Erica dual black VCF
-modulate cutoff & resonance by hand
-add both slewed and direct voltages from Ornament-8 into the filter
-record result, mix for small speakers, master

disquiet0595_Bowed Bass Manipulations

4Jun23

https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/sets/soundscape-experiments

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Soundscape Experiment #100

Zwischen den Räumen

I went through so many iterations of this one! Pretty much through all my effects at this one to see what would stick, and then struggled for hours to make sense of it all.

Many thanks to Marcus Fisher for the wonderful noises he provided and congrats to Marc at Disquiet for reaching this milestone

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 2

Disquiet0600 Featuring The Sounds Of Marcus Fischer

https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/cave

Artist : @la-fin-des-pseudonymes
Title : CAVE
Code : TH!N44
Format : CD

Artwork : Jean-Claude De Bemels
Mastering : Alexis Oscari

La fin des pseudonymes - Cloche Pied

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet
commissioned by JACK Quartet, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Live Recording, JACK Quartet, 16 January 2020, Berlin

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet

@csfcmmcab archive section, featuring only sound materials exclusively related to the Basílica of Santa Maria del Mar.

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