The origins of "Bernardino Da Siena" began in 2018 while I was writing a slew of songs between the styles of extreme metal and techno. This musical focus was a way to process the conflicts between my trans-femme, immigrant identity and the various strands of misogyny and transphobia that ran respectively through my countries of origin; the Unites States and Italy. At the same time, a separate project proposal of mine had been accepted by 33 Officina Creativa (33OC), which is an art residency located in a small, Italian town called Toffia. I therefore had to shelve the metal - techno songs and prepare for my trip from the Unites States to Europe instead.
33OC is housed inside a de-consecrated, medieval convent that had been built by Franciscan friars. I found out during my stay that the church within had been dedicated to Bernardino da Siena (1380 - 1444), who had apparently stayed in Toffia during one of his pilgrimages from Rome in 1430. Bernardino was a missionary who spent his life traveling through Italy to preach and reinvigorate the people’s faith in Catholicism. In 1450, he was canonized as a saint by the Pope. Upon further research, I became aware of Bernardino’s pivotal role in influencing the Roman Catholic Church’s violent treatment of Queer people and women; his speeches often decried witchcraft, ’sodomy’, and other forms of ‘sin’. It seemed that I had, almost by chance, discovered a historical root to the culturally - pervasive repression that had caused me such strife.
So, I decided to respond to Bernardino’s poisonous legacy with black metal and techno; a historically anti - clerical genre and a historically Queer genre of music. I abandoned the initial project proposal for 33OC and continued, for the rest of my time in Toffia, to work on the shelved songs that I had started in the United States.
A fresco from the 1400’s still remains inside that church, with depictions of Bernardino and other religious figures present. I would start my days by gazing upon the fresco, then playback and record sounds with the reverb of that church’s concrete interior. This is how/ Bernardino da Siena / was made.

A bell, a creaking door, my screams, the two rivers that surround Toffia, feedback… all these sounds gave life to the silent image of Bernardino and I would feel, for a brief moment, that my ire could reach him.

Onirologia a.k.a. Costantino Toth is an Italian - American composer and multimedia artist born in Sarasota, Florida and currently based in Berlin. Their work amalgamates themes of homemaking and transformation with a process that highlights a ‘conceptual commitment to the sample’. Onirologia’s debut album, "O" (2017), was made mostly with archival material that pertained to the artist’s personal and cultural lineage (relatives' voices, old VHS tapes, an EEG, etc) in order to convey the strange, divisive experience of being a 1st-generation, trans immigrant. Since then, “O” has become a further exploration into sonic sedimentation, and will continue indefinitely through annual reiterations. 

Production and Mixing by Onirologia
Lyrics and Vocals by Onirologia
Mastering by Emme Moises at SoundLab
Artwork by Daniel Mangosing
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Onirologia - Bernardino Da Siena

Bernardino Da Siena

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Onirologia - Ash and Gravel

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Onirologia - The Water of Your Spit

Please, Please

Onirologia - Please, Please

San Diego based DJ Technik joins Phosphene with an all vinyl set of excursions into techno.

Phosphene w/ DJ Technik - Feb 10th 2023

ART V3 06.04.23

Morgan Hall is the main project of experimental artist Stelios Katsioperis, based in Greece. Slowly being formed behind the curtains of the electronic/industrial and the hardcore/crust scene since a young age (thus the experimentation with those genres out of various instruments and analog gear/equipment), Morgan Hall tends to bind forensic poetry & human nature’s extreme tendencies and sexual impulses and more, with sound & image, either in terms of noise or ambient. 
He’s also the host of the monthly web-radio show “F.B.I. Pathology Report” on Athens-based Fade Radio.

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Picture : Palestine Liberation Organization militants. Beirut 1979.

BedouinDrone - Resistance

melancholy dreamiq/acid [destroyed] ⌖⌖⌖

"Time debris" was performed by Francesco Corvi on the 9th of February 2022 as part of his master research project at Den Haag’s Institute of Sonology. The work is loosely inspired by "The Order of Time," the influential text written by physicist and philosopher Carlo Rovelli.

Time Debris (excerpt)

the day of my wrath...

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Circumstance

what is going on?

Recording from Berlin Konzerthaus 31.08.2016

Performed by Orchestra of Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, conducted by Paul Mägi.

Based on a single shape, the piece consists of two different natural harmonic rows ( first part following the natural harmonics available on cello strings and second part being a combination of harmonics of other string instruments). Every natural string harmonic has its unique character, depending on the string it is produced on. Touching the string lightly can produce icy high tones or warm, flute like, lower resonances. It is an attempt to bring out the poetry of the microtonal landscape of these particular rows and observe the constant change of tone combinations that mostly occur only once. Other instruments extend the harmonies and give breathe to the structure. To add immediacy, some freedom to make intuitive choices is given to the musicians. While studying the material, I had a picture stuck in my mind as making one of the gigantic wind driven and self moving sculptures of the dutch artist Theo Jansen, hoping that if I get the calculations right, the piece will also catch a wind and reveal something in the sound, that I was unaware of.

Mechanics Of Flying (2016)

Human curation of music in the age of algorithmic based taste.

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