Hildegarda(aka Agnese Menguzzato) is an Italian composer & musician based in Berlin. She is our second mentee of the month! Classically trained, she then started experimenting with electroacoustic compositions and electronics, seen as a timeless vehicle to reach a wider spectrum of aural possibilities. She often employs the auditory potential of her lute to create uncanny paths in the harmonic and tonal sequences of her work. Her constant sonic research reflects also her early fascination for polyphonic choir music from Renaissance and the Middle Ages. 

Hildegarda’s musical expression is deeply rooted in her childhood imagery and in the confront with nature, from which every human sentiment flows; having lived between Trentino Alps and Emilia Apennines, she’s driven to create sonic landscapes, in which she gathers and combines raw and digital sounds. Her music laps various fields of application in media. She’s currently involved in a project on the sound perception in Japanese culture through Shinto rituals.

https://soundcloud.com/hildegarda

Hildegarda - Ablute • Hall

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A Warning (128): Mixed by S280F

Agnese Menguzzato

Agnese Menguzzato - Ablute

An ode to gentleness.

The glasses on my serving tray fall to the ground; they scatter in shards of stalagmites like frozen tears cascading in slow motion, sinking into glacial depths. ‘Scusa’ materializes in the hollow of my throat, it is pushed forth outward to the world and into the clutches of an otherwise languid, now open-mouthed customer, their eyes wide and shaken by the drama. Sensational. I say that I am sorry but I am not.

After years of moving through the world in a “sorrier, more apologetic way” and of working in service to others, the release of SCUSA offers catharsis and healing for Menguzzato. A quiet liberation, a reckoning.

Agnese Menguzzato is an Italian composer and musician based in Berlin. Trained in both violin and the renaissance lute, she then studied sound engineering in Napoli.

Drawing on historical and contemporary technologies, Menguzzato’s practice intertwines past and current techniques to explore the sonic prospects of the present, often employing the auditory potential of the lute.

Menguzzato’s musical expression is deeply rooted in her childhood imagery and in confrontation with nature, from which every human sentiment flows. Having lived between Trentino Alps and Emilia-Romagna Apennines, she’s driven towards the construction of emotive soundscapes gathered from the material and digital worlds.

Engaging in various musical constellations, Menguzzato has collaborated and performed with musicians such as Sara Persico, FRANKIE, and Soho Rezanejad.

V34 
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released December 15, 2023

Music by Agnese Menguzzato
Flag Design by Diane Esnault
Artwork by Kate Chen
Mastering by Emme Moises
Text by Abby Beatrice Quick
Creative direction and production by Simone Antonioni, Agnese Menguzzato

Agnese Menguzzato - Nightstand

Agnese Menguzzato - A Settembre (from My Forehead)

Agnese Menguzzato - Is It In The Evening

EYE TO EYE

ETERNAL RETURN

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First part in a set of sound things exploring climate anxiety.
Part 1 is made up of four interconnected themes/tracks:

1. Prolog in der Hölle
Fossilized, crystallized, indisputable dogma - capitalism is the faustian bargain that was made on our behalf.

2. Bottomless Extraction
Is the coming fascist collapse the only limit to out extractive hunger?

3. The Seer Died by Their Own Hand
Tiresia blinds themselves to the coming horror: their scream fills endless caves. No one can hear.

4. The Arbitary Line
Us/them, human/animal. The bees die, we all die. Where is the line with you?


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