Version for chamber orchestra
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Conducted by Sara Caneva
Recorded live on 30.4.2022

Veneto Contemporanea 30 aprile 2022

Fondale mobile (2022)

Performed by Cappella Amsterdam
Conductor: Leonard Evers 
Duduk: Raphaela Danksagmüller
Kamancheh: Misagh Joolaee

Text: Houshang Ebtehaj

Hamzaad I

2018
for Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet and String Quartet
feat. Dèdalo Ensemble
live recording in Brescia, 19.1.2019

Hafen Variation

Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
cond. J. Webb

Fondale Mobile - 08.06.2019

The West Philippine Sea meets the Baltic Sea in Doublegoer, an audio documentary about sea-mirrors, doppelgängern, storm floods, and beach dunes. This audio documentary has been produced in collaboration with citizens of Eckernförde and is a product of a 5-month artist residency at Otte 1 Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde/DE, with a mobility grant from Prince Claus Fund.

Story and interviews by Mica Cabildo 
https://mica-cabildo.com
Sound design by Jorge Juan B. Wieneke V
https://similarobjects.xyz
Field recordings by Sara Caneva and Mica Cabildo
https://saracaneva.com/eckernfoerdesound
https://soundcloud.com/saracaneva

Featuring the voices of:
Lukas Hochrieder  ·  Michael Packschies  ·  Fumiko Kikuchi  ·  Horst Sterr  ·  Rüdiger Ziegler  ·  Hannah Sliwka  ·  and Mica Cabildo

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00:00‍......Winter, blue
08:47.......Swamp
11:27..........Mermaid
17:57.........Seagrass
24:20........Sturmflut
28:31.........Stormy weather
31:00.........Meeresspiegel
34:47........Doppelgänger
38:10  Total Running Time

Doublegoer (Floodradio)

Night is night, no matter how long 
- excerpt - 
Mdi Ensemble
@Milano, Palazzina Liberty 
15.11.2019

Sara Caneva - Night is night...no matter how long - EXCERPT

Live-coded ambisonic accordian study. Binaural (headphone) or stereo listening at listener's discretion. All based on a single sample.

What If There's Nothing You Can Do?  (28/1/21)

The “Artefatti” are a series of pieces realized with a particular family of electroacoustic instruments: the “Geecos” - Gestural Control Surfaces.

The Geecos, conceived in collaboration with the luthier Ludovic Barrier, are special wooden surfaces having different shapes and thickness, expressly designed to control real time sound synthesis.

Sounds produced on the surface by the performer’s hands are captured via a contact microphone and finely analyzed in real time using a family of sound descriptors (ircam descriptors). 
Data issued from the sound analysis are used to finely modulate parameters of sound synthesis in real time.  In this way the musician controls the inner details of sound synthesis through the sound of his own hands.

The synthesis engine uses modal synthesis in real time (modalys © ircam) because it reacts to gestures in an (almost) physical and natural way. There is no sampled sound or sound playback.  The goal is to give the performer a control of sound similar to that of an acoustic instrument. In fact, the definition of timbre is based on the performer’s gestures and sensibility just like a violin.
For this reason Geecos stands also for "Gesture Controlled Synthesis"

The challenge is to realize an electronic music where the sounds are just sounds and not electronic sounds.

Three Geecos have been designed to date, each one with its own name, shape and dimensions.
The smallest is called Manta, the medium Olpe and the biggest one Tursiope. 
Every Geecos has a specific ergonomics to fit in multiple ways with the performer’s body and actions.
The quality of sound synthesis mostly depends from the sound produced on the surface of the instrument; for this reason “Geecos” are made of Val di Fiemme pinewood (Italy), the same used in most wooden musical instruments.

I developed this particular sound system at Ircam in Paris.

Geecos have been used for the first time in a large composition called “Voir-Toucher”, premiered on June 12th 2013 at Grande Salle of Centre Pompidou in Paris as a commission of Ircam.

The “Artefatti” are a series of free explorations of the Geecos possibilities.

Artefatto III is a Manta solo I personally improvised at Ircam, exploring four superposed layers of modal instruments:
- six tuned strings 
- a series of striked plates
- a bowed scratched string
- a low tube

The sounds are modulated only by hand gestures on Manta without any interactions with the computer.

LINKS:

video:
youtu.be/6Si2Y9Sm4AE
https://youtu.be/xcHppDtL3g4
https://youtu.be/gmxCx0AWeRg

photos:
https://www.facebook.com/pagliei.lorenzo/media_set?set=a.10150778844576484.436636.794671483

video interview:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/video/lorenzo-pagliei/

program note:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/percussion-2013.pdf

page devoted to the première:
manifeste2013.ircam.fr/event/percussion-2013/

a first review:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/text/lorenzo-pagliei-et-steven-schick-au-centre-pompidou/

Artefatto III - Sfiorare

composer, conductor, researcher, educator
doctoral researcher @ University of Birmingham

Fondale mobile (2022)

Sara Caneva

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