Name: AN EXPERIMENT IN NAVIGATION - The Earth Abstracted From Its Geomorphic Features by xabier iriondo
Duration: 7 min 29 s
Description: From the self titled album by AN EXPERIMENT IN NAVIGATION (Roberto Sassi, Xabier Iriondo)included in the "Musica Improvvisa" box published by Die Schachtel

From the self titled album by AN EXPERIMENT IN NAVIGATION (Roberto Sassi, Xabier Iriondo)included in the "Musica Improvvisa" box published by Die Schachtel

AN EXPERIMENT IN NAVIGATION - The Earth Abstracted From Its Geomorphic Features

To write this composition I was inspired by the sounds of nature, in particular the storm with the roar of strange and powerful rhythms, where water is the most frequent, most varied and richest noise.
In the structure I wanted to emphasize the multiple sensations that arise from the storm, following its rhythm and its intensity, counting moments of full sound with moments of emptiness. The composition develops in two arches.
In the first, the Thunder, a mysterious rumble that comes from far away, like a threat. His rumbles are dispersed, just weakened, a new burst takes them back and renews them. Accompanied by the sound of the rain, which creates a wonderful variety of rhythms and metal tones of the roofs and gutters and the monotonous one of the earth, with a rhythm that is only the rhythm of the rain, but which has all the crescendo and diminishing intensity for increasing and decreasing the amount of water that falls. When the rain falls with sparse drops, the general tone is low, but when it falls a lot of the general tone of the noise of the rain is much more acute.
In the second part the articulation is similar to the temporal, but instead of the naturalistic datum there is the abstract datum, in an imitative sense, to avoid monotony. In this part I tried to reproduce the variety of timbres using acoustic instruments.

Temporale

Xabier Iriondo, musician and composer, born in the Isola area in Milan (Italy) in the early seventies from basque father and italian mother.

At the age of seventeen he began to amuse himself with an electric guitar and he still does now.
Between 1992 and 2001 he made 5 albums and hundreds of concerts with the rock band Afterhours, 3 albums with the indie/rock band Six Minute War Madness and 3 albums + 2 miniCDs with the A Short Apnea project.
In 2001 he started to explore the possibilities gave him by some handbuilt instruments he made and the meeting between these weird instruments and electronic music, field recordings and electroacoustic instruments.
From 2005 to 2010 he opens in Milan Soundmetak, a vintage/collector instruments and musical objects shop where he organize concerts/performances.

In these times he's involved as guitarist/sound manipulator in the projects Afterhours, Buñuel.

Xabier Iriondo has played live around Europe, USA, Israel and Japan and collaborated (live and studio) with the following bands as musicians: Damo Suzuki, ZU, Rhys Chatham, Peter Brotzmann, Eugene Robinson, Sinistri, Wu Fei, Paolo Tofani, Gianni Gebbia, Steve Piccolo, Carla Bozulich, Walter Prati, Eraldo Bernocchi, Cristiano Calcagnile, Pierpaolo Capovilla, Stefano Pilia, Bruno Dorella, Elio Martuscello, Vincenzo Vasi, Alberto Morelli, Verdena, Simone Massaron, Gak Sato, Franceco Cusa, Gianni Mimmo, Mirko Sabatini, Juan Mordecai, Matteo Pennese, aka_Bondage, Emanuele Parrini, Luca D'Alberto, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Giust, Cristina Donà, Angelo Contini, Stefania Pedretti, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Diego Sapignoli, Olivier Manchion, Claudio Rocchetti, Andrea Belfi, Nicola Ratti, Antonio Gramentieri and many others

AN EXPERIMENT IN NAVIGATION - The Earth Abstracted From Its Geomorphic Features

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