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Frequency IV

Sindacato

“The notion of burial had always struck her as stifling and cold. She liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.”

OneKind- Revenant

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Busybee Version

Marco Lucchi : synthesizer and tape

playing with "Angelus Novus" by Hatis Noit

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"C'è un quadro di Klee che si chiama Angelus Novus. Vi è rappresentato un angelo che sembra in procinto di allontanarsi da qualcosa su cui ha fisso lo sguardo. I suoi occhi sono spalancati, la bocca è aperta, e le ali sono dispiegate. L'angelo della storia deve avere questo aspetto. Ha il viso rivolto al passato. Là dove davanti a noi appare una catena di avvenimenti, egli vede un'unica catastrofe, che ammassa incessantemente macerie su macerie e le scaraventa ai suoi piedi. Egli vorrebbe ben trattenersi, destare i morti e riconnettere i frantumi. Ma dal paradiso soffia una bufera, che si è impigliata nelle sue ali, ed è così forte che l'angelo non può più chiuderle. Questa bufera lo spinge inarrestabilmente nel futuro, a cui egli volge le spalle, mentre cresce verso il cielo il cumulo delle macerie davanti a lui. Ciò che noi chiamiamo il progresso, è questa bufera."

Walter Benjamin

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23 marzo 2023

https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/angelus-novus

Je ne veux plus savoir
Je veux suivre cette voix
Cette voix qui rebondit dans ma tête
Je veux voir encore et toujours un peu plus
Dans l’espoir de comprendre
Mais je m’éloigne toujours un peu plus
Je ne peux voir ce que j’entends
Je ne peux entendre ce que je vois
Mon regard s’enflamme
Dans une cascade de mots
Des mots qui se décomposent
Des images qui se dérobent
Je ne veux plus savoir
Je veux suivre cette voix

Réjean Desrosiers 2023 03 24 005

Bandcamp

Angelus Novus [Hatis Noit]

https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-leaves-don-t-leave-the-tree

https://athenenoctu4.bandcamp.com/

02 Diving

Air 2023 II

This piece is created from a variety of experiments with speech sounds. The piece refers to a beautiful, melancholic poem by Jorge Luis Borges entitled Descartes. But this is not a setting in the classical sense. Instead, I took a few lines of the English translation of this poem and put together the words as best I could from phonemes taken from language teaching videos of over 50 languages - spoken by women and men - letter by letter. This was the basic material and all the sounds of this piece are developed from it without exception. Of the poem itself, no words or fragments of words appear in the piece that might be intelligible. Everything is pure sound. The harmonic-melodic material of the piece is derived from the Liebestod of Wagner´s opera Tristan und Isolde. Although I am not a great fan of Richard Wagner, this is a touching piece of music whose grand, romantic gesture is (at least for me) nevertheless admittedly outdated in these disillusioned times. So it is a reminiscence that also plays with the idea of the multilingual recitation of Borge´s poem by women and men - maybe a strange love story across language barriers. The harmonic sequence of Wagner´s piece was mirrored on a twelve-tone row and the resulting material was then subjected to various other serial processes and microtonal pitch changes according to the pitches of the phonemes. In a few places, however, the original music has remained recognizable, appearing for moments like a shadow.

For the sonic transformations, I worked with spectral software, such as Steinberg's Spectral Layers and TS2 from Ircam labs. Later, granular software came into play, such as U&I's MetaSynth and accSone's Crusher X. I also converted individual phonemes and whole words into wavetables for further processing using the Waldorf Iridium.

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