Sirens

Blues Moon

Live Cello, sound synthesis, rabàb and percussive coffee pot sounds

Spira for cello and electronics

Sone Mikaelian, flute
Elias Van Dyck, piano
Raf Cornelis, Soprano Sax 

Trio for flute, sax soprano and piano (other interpretation)

Audioreolae is an interactive sound sculpture built for the 2010 Burning Man festival that uses collaborative looping as a vehicle to question dichotomies such as stage/audience, performer/observer, front/back, now/then, beginning/end.

The player stands under an arch containing speakers, where the loop creator is immersed in the sound of her loops, from above and below.  The participant’s figure is framed in a circular opening, a reference to the circular nature of the audio loop, and to the etymology of the words “areola” (diminutive form of the Greek word for “open space”) aureole (the traditional “halo” of light around sacred figures in Medieval art) and the literal “audio relay” that is being created as the user completes the audio/visual circuit. 

The audio environment is quad-sound tilted from horizontal to vertical array, and paired with ping-pong delays form “random surround sound.”  A tight sweet-spot is cast at the intersection of a four channel arrangement of the speakers to create what I like to call a TAAZ:  a Temporary Autonomous Audio Zone. When one is standing inside of it, it is very loud, but also almost inaudible from the perspective of bystanders. The loop-maker has the option to use a mic, a Gibson Explorer electric guitar and an E-bow.

The original, 120-watt sculpture was quite loud, but in 2016 I rebuilt the looper to collapse into itself, creating a battery-powered, 20kg golden triangle package that could fly with me across Europe. In this "audio-relay," the last loop is played first at the next site, connecting the recording sessions across both time and space.

The result is an audio piece that was created by dozens of people, across thousands of kilometers, from Esplanade park in Riga, Latvia, to a subterranean Mescal bar in Vilnius, Lithuania, to the desert of Spain, and all the way to Burning Man 2016 where the European loops were played. All participants in this recording gave consent to be a part of this project. If you were a part of this undertaking, please tag your moment in the track! (This track is mixed low for headphones, and the stereo field the users were crafting is lost on a mono playback device - like most phones.) Thanks to everyone who lent their voices to this project. Life is loops! More info: https://peninkandsong.com/2016/07/15/audioreolae-audio-relay-looping-people-cities-and-sounds-from-eastern-europe-to-the-western-us-summer-2016/

Audioreolae European Activations Summer 2016 (Mixed for Headphones)

Soundscape notturno di creature immaginarie. Primo di tre pezzi  (Notturno A, Notturno B, Notturno C) per oboe, clarinetto, sax baritono ed elettronica. Materiali di base ottenuti con sintesi sottrattiva poi elaborati con FFT. Mixdown stereo da spazializzazione quadrifonica (2017)

Notturno A

for oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, double bass

Camerata Bern
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, soloist

This piece got the first prize at the «Sound-Magical-Space – S.M.S.» Call for Scores by Camerata Bern, thanks to the audience vote

Choir

Carla Magnan IL MAGNIFICO CANOCCHIALE
(2019 by STRADIVARIUS)
From CD by LowBb bassoon cluster:
Giorgio Mandolesi and Maurizio Barigione,  fagottino; 
Massimo Ferretti Incerti, bassoon; Alessio Pisani, contrabassoon.
Commission: Alessio Pisani

Il Magnifico Cannocchiale  for two fagottini, bassoon and contrabassoon

Fragment

Enregistrement en concert de "Imaginary patterns" (Création mondiale - Philippe Festou)le 11 mai 2019 à Palerme dans le cadre du festival Curva Minore(12 mouvements - extraits).
Sio et ensemble Yin réunis.
Direction: Alessandra Pipitone.

Imaginary patterns (enregistré en concert à Palerme - Italie)

"La science de l'inconscience" duo pour flûte alto & piano.
Création le 3 novembre 2019.
Flûte alto : François Veilhan | Piano : Hélène Pereira
Enregistrée à Paris (Cathédrale Sainte Croix des Arméniens) par Bruno Michel.

La science de l’inconscience (création à Paris - Cathédrale Sainte croix des Arméniens)

Alfredo Giammanco
compositore e performer di musica elettroacustica.

Musicista di origini palermitane classe 1978, studia privatamente pianoforte, successivamente frequenta composizione, musica jazz e musica elettronica al Conservatorio di musica Antonio Scontrino di Trapani. Tra i suoi insegnanti: Paolo Mangoni, Vincenzo Palermo, Luigi Grassadonia, Giancarlo Bini, Luca Macchi, Salvatore Bonafede, Marco Gasperini. Già orchestrale per l'Orchestra della Nazionale Cantanti, (Enrico Ruggeri, Luca Barbarossa, Marco Masini, Paolo Vallesi), ha collaborato anche con diversi musicisti come: Marco Bortesi(bassista con Mietta, CCCP), Paolo Torelli (chitarrista con Paolo Belli), Roby Berti(batterista Vasco Rossi, Elisa), Valentina Ducreux (corista in RAI), Ricky Portera (chitarrista di Lucio Dalla), Floriano Bocchino, etc. Dopo vari lavori all’interno ed esterno degli studi di registrazione, entra a far parte de iMusicanti nel febbraio del 2010 con l’inizio della produzione degli album “ARSURA”, prodotto da CNI e "Genti" edito dall'etichetta EmWEm nei quali oltre ad essere autore e compositore cura gli arrangiamenti. 
Masterclass sull' incremento di catene elettroacustiche con il compositore Agostino Di Scipio
Masterclass sull'improvvisazione contemporanea e conduction con Gunter "Baby" Sommer
Workshop con Pauline Oliveros, presso il Conservatorio B. Marcello di Venezia.
Vincitore del concorso di esecuzione "Premio Marcello Marino" con esecuzione in live elctronics di "Musiche per sintetizzatore, lappo e altri congegni" di Alfredo Giammanco.
Attualmente si esibisce in live electronics con linguaggi contemporanei orientati verso i soundscape, strutturalismo e arte sonora con catene di sintesi elettroacustiche ibride tra comportamenti analogici e digitali.

Notturno A

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