From the cycle: "Kilpisjärvi Sessions"

@Collettivo_21 :
Eleonora Liuzzi / Alessandro Mazzacane / Daniele Nava / Lorenzo Moretto / Lorenzo Di Marco / Luca Guidarini

Recorded 6th of August 2023 at Casa Della Musica San Michele, Montaldeo / Foresty Festival
Mix: Alessandro Perini
Master: Luca Guidarini

www.collettivo21.com
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Ornithology I. Chronicles of the ground (Collettivo 21), 2023

Tetsuya Nakayama, Edo Wan

Hand In Hand

Adaptation Assez Facile

The initial seed for this project was planted in 2020 when Nicolás Jaar wrote the song “Piedras” for a concert at the Museum of Memory & Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, which commemorates the victims of human rights violations during the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990. Between 2022-2023 it took on a new form as a radio play entitled 'Archivos de Radio Piedras', which was shared on a dedicated Telegram channel. In 2024, the play was converted into a 24 channel installation at the University Museum of Mexico City (MUAC), where it was exhibited for 5 months.

Piedras 1 and 2 is a collection of the tracks featured within the play, all new music by Jaar, but partly presented within the play as the music of Salinas Hasbún (the name a composite homage to Jaar's grandmothers, Graciela Salinas and Miriam Hasbún).

The play follows two friends mourning the disappearance of Salinas Hasbún, a musician and writer who vanished in the early 2020s. Although they live in a future where technology is advanced, they resort to DIY radio methods because the anonymous group “Las 0cho” has launched a worldwide attack on undersea internet cables, causing a global internet blackout.

The play's central theme revolves around the idea that truths, memories and identities speak from the cracks (“rasgaduras”), or the "in-between" spaces ("en el entre"). This concept is supported by the way much of the narration unfolds - in the liminal spaces between radio frequencies. The instability and transitory nature of a constantly shifting radio dial becomes not just a metaphor but the structure of the play itself. It’s in these moments of noise, static and interference that the deeper revelations of the story emerge. This disjointed, ever-changing medium mirrors the way memory and trauma operate within the play - non-linear, slipping through the gaps, found in fragments or ordinary moments, rather than direct transmissions of “official” historical accounts.

This notion reaches its climax at the end of the narrative, when a text is discovered in which Salinas speaks of finding a new number in a small pond in a cave mentioned in the first episodes of the radio play. This pond, inside the “cochlea of the world”, is seen as a way to introduce real-life randomness to computation. Embodied in the salt lakes of northern Chile, home to the world’s oldest bacteria, this randomness disrupts the rigid order of binary code, paving the way for a transformation of digital life.

Piedras 2 

Rio radio correspondencia anfibia

The 1st grade class (1°U) of the Primary School "Livio Tempesta" in Quattro Castella (RE), assisted by their teacher Loredana Caruso and father Giuseppe Cordaro, have created musical scores and sounds of their school community. The children participated in two days of educational activities during which they experienced firsthand active listening and theories about the sound landscape. On the first day they recorded the sounds that accompany their school life every day (photocopier, gate, restroom flush, music room, kitchen, etc.). They also experimented with sonification of the willow tree in the garden using an Arduino board. During the night, a digital microphone (audiomoth) was installed near the willow tree to record nocturnal sounds, as the school is located in a peripheral area surrounded by greenery. On the second day the children, with the guidance of their teacher, selected the sounds recorded on the first day, and I created a 60-second file. 

1°U_Livio_Tempesta

The work is contrasting aural places of intimacy and enclosure with expansive spaces and propagates through their interaction.  The title is borrowed from a painting by René Magritte, depicting two coffins seated in a mountainous landscape. The source materials for the work have been recorded with an 18 channel microphones arrange in a globe shape, encoded in Higher Order Ambisonics. The work was completed with the support of Musiques & Recherches at the Métamorhose d'Orphée studio during in the summer of 2024. 

Par une belle fin d'apres-midi (stereo reduction)

Music by Matthew Ryals
Mastering by Nil Hartman
Artwork and layout by Vivek Thakker

Thank you to Nil Hartman, Elliott Watson, Joyce N. Ho, and Vivek Thakker

etude no. 10 (take 4)

Clouds

Studio No.3 from 'Studi' by Francesco Gennari

Artwork by Daniel Hicks

Studi

Studio No.3

FONORAMA su Battiti 15.05.25

ksana is a musical piece by Benjamin Thigpen (France-USA) writed for two Tu-Yo (Laporte new invented instrument) and Computer.

ksana is the Sanskrit word designating the smallest interval of time. It is the 90th part of a thought. When a man snaps his fingers, 63 ksanas have gone by – and within each passing ksana there are 900 instances of arising and ceasing.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
			                  - William Blake

Ksana

Navigating the crossroads of the electroacoustic music
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20.09.2025 @ New Electronic Arts Trieste 
9.09.2025 – [acousmatic] Festival Supersonique – Marseille
1607.2025 – [acousmatic] Pianeta immateriale CRM – Roma
24.05.2025 @ FRINGE festival – Torino 
21.02.2025 @ HELLERAU — Europäisches Zentrum der Künste - Dresda
16.10.2024 @ Pordenone x Polinote Music (in) Factory
10.10.2024 @ MA/IN Kora - Contemporary Arts Center - Lecce
25-28.09.2024 @ Light our Vision - Lichterfestival - Chemnitz (DE)
23.08.2024 @ Forte Albertino - Vinadio 
8.08.2024 @ Bussi Sul Tirino w/ Stefano Risso e Luisiana Lorusso
7.07.2024 @ ArteScienza Festival - CRM - Roma (acousmatic piece première) 
30.06.2024 @ Torino x musica alla spina
02.06.2024 @ Roccasparvera x Montagna futura (CN)
27.04.2024 @ Torino Jazz Festival w/ Bearzatti, Risso, Barbieri
4.02.2024 @ Batavierhuis, Rotterdam (NL)
3.02.2024 @ Perifest - Deventer - Nederland
7.11.2023 @ Inalco – Paris w/ Giuseppe Gavazza 
1.11.2023 @ TKOB - Tirana w/ Stefano Risso e Luisiana Lorusso
15.09.23 – OSA Reliving Occitania with Paolo Baldini, Plastica, Matthias Loibner, Duo Bottasso, Martina A., Edoquarto e Franco Conte – APM Saluzzo
9.09.2023@ Passaggi di vento - Acceglio (CN)
8.09.2023@ Saluzzo - (CN)
26 .06.2023 @ Sardegna Teatro – Cagliari
24.03.2023 @ Soluzioni Festival - Torino
14.03.2023 @ Post Punkdemic Chill Varco - Cuneo

Contact:
simone.sims.longo@hotmail.com

FONORAMA su Battiti 15.05.25

Simone Sims Longo

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