"La vita delle conchiglie" (for 2 performers and amplified ensemble) is the first piece of a cycle that deals with the world hidden inside the shells. The piece, as well as the whole cycle is somehow connected and inspired by a Francis Ponge's poem.
"La vita delle conchiglie" (The life of the shells) was premiered by the Ensemble Phace conducted by Nacho De Paz in the Wiener Konzerthaus on February 2021.

Lorenzo Troiani_La vita delle conchiglie_2020


Produced and mixed by Martin Bowes (Attrition).

www.attrition.co.uk/thecage/thecage.htm

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Rise Of A Future Generator

古い森に  消えた　memory は　so
Nobody knows that dissapeard from map
Secretely, secretely
moon and the sun talk to you always

In the mirror ,spell the magic
繰り返し見るのは夢の街
枯れたのは目に見えるもの
だけじゃない you and I 

古い森に　消えた　memory は　so
Nobody knows that dissapeard from map
Secretely, secretely
moon and the sun talk to you always

In the mirror ,spell the magic
繰り返し見るのは夢の街
このDryに果てた壊れた世界よ

再生と再会を　tonight

再生と再会

VoxChoir PaulSchilling Demo

A Weightlessness Process (or how to become ethereal), for solo cello (2019).
Excerpt from a preliminary version of the piece in a reading session. Performed by Séverine Ballon during a workshop at the University of Leeds, 2019.

Buy score: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/5468-a-weightlessness-process

You can read more about the piece on my website: https://micheleabondano.com/2020/04/10/a-weightlessness-process-or-how-to-become-ethereal/
Watch my video presentation on the research for this composition at the 56th RMA Annual Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Z4MUQAxKM

A Weightlessness Process (or how to become ethereal) [Preliminary Version-Exc.] | Michele Abondano

collide

Final track from the 'Alternatives To Despair' EP sees instrumental parts playing off against saws, sirens, hovercrafts etc. but with an air of melancholy that intensifies in the final section.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

According to art historian Lawrence Alloway, Agnes Martin was one of the principal pioneers of the “Hard-Edge” 1950's painting movement. “Even where forms are not purely represented,” he wrote, “[Hard-Edge] abstract artists have tended toward a compilation of separable elements, treated as discrete entities. Forms are few and the surface immaculate … the whole picture becomes the unit. The result of this sparseness is that the spatial effect of figures on a field is avoided.”

Martin’s work evokes not only austere minimalism but also a cerebral airiness, perhaps gained from when Martin lived in New Mexico while attending university. Her work appears to vibrate off the canvas, the rigor of her craft subtly transformed into a sort of trembly dissonance. Even a simple line appears to breathe; a series of seemingly identical shapes reveal hidden nuances on close inspection.

For this piece written for fake violins, Suss Müsik interpreted Martin’s lovely 1961 work entitled Words (ink and graphic on paper, mounted on canvas) as a graphical score. The parallel lines are represented by sustained, repetitious phrases playing a single note. The triangles are conveyed through a simple 3-note counterpoint performed in consecutive sets of four, four, six, six, six, six, four and four. 

The piece is titled Words and was recorded live with one overdub for piano embellishment.

More on this 456th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Line Up (The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score), at:

https://disquiet.com/0456/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Words [Disquiet0456]

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano in 2019. http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Dario Panzeri (2020). http://dariopanzeri.org

"Metafonia" is the Italian word that identifies the phenomenon known in parapsychology as "electronic voices". Metafonia VI is the first track in order of publication, and the last in order of numbering, of a series of compositions inspired by this phenomenon.
Each piece was made starting from vocal samples recorded and processed in real time with a laptop (and with the addition of some synths). The only voice behind these pieces is mine (at least I think, and above all I hope, even if I can never be completely sure), recorded while I was improvising random phrases, as if I were my own medium.
I waited a long time before deciding to finish and release this series of songs, the gloomy atmosphere of this end of October 2020 made me realize that it was time to let them go.
The project is to release all the tracks, one or two at a time, between today and the evening of October 31st (as per pagan tradition), to collect them in a single album that will be available on Bandcamp ...
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"Metafonia" è la parola italiana che identifica il fenomeno noto in parapsicologia come "voci elettroniche". Metafonia VI è la prima traccia in ordine di pubblicazione, e l'ultima in ordine di numerazione, di una serie di composizioni ispirate a questo fenomeno. 
Ogni brano stato è realizzato a partire da campioni vocali registrati ed elaborati in tempo reale con un laptop(e con l'aggiunta di un po' di synth). L'unica voce alla base di questi brani è la mia (almeno credo, e soprattutto spero, anche se non potrò mai esserne del tutto certo), registrata mentre improvvisavo frasi casuali, come fossi il medium di me stesso. 
Ho aspettato diverso tempo prima di decidere di terminare e pubblicare questa serie di brani, l'atmosfera cupa di questo fine di ottobre 2020 mi ha fatto capire che era arrivato il momento di lasciarli andare. 
Il progetto è di rilasciare tutte le tracce, una o due per volta, tra oggi e la sera del 31 ottobre (come da tradizione pagana), per raccoglierle in un unico album che sarà disponibile su Bandcamp...

Released October 18, 2020

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Metafonie Volume 1

Metafonia VI

zucchini

First Flight

First Flight (Preview)

Composer/Artist (signed to Monochrome Motif Records); Arts Council & Lottery supported creative entrepreneur; tutor & module leader, ICMP; Fresh on the Net moderator & reviews writer: blogger: author, husband & dad.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

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