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Live data sonification
I recently had the chance to perform my composition for the FLOW project live.
Thanks to UQIDO for inviting me!
More info about the project.
The Jay’s Wing
A theatre production by Alter Ego, directed by Snizhana Gukasian Korobeinikova.
Premieres 28,29 March @ West Village Theatre, Calgary, Canada
Music by me!
New project: Sonic Investigation Unit
A Century of Sounds is a collaboration between Cities & Memory, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University — 100 artists, 100 field recordings from a century of ethnographic sound collections, each reimagined into something new.
Our piece, Talea, is built around a field recording from the Republic of Congo. The title says everything about our approach: a talea is a cutting, genetically identical to its source, yet capable of growing into something entirely new when placed in different soil. Fidelity and transformation, at once.
Talea is included in the project’s highlight compilation, out now on Bandcamp. (https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/a-century-of-sounds)
Musicians:
Francesco Ganassin: clarinet, electronics, dziga loop (custom made electronic instrument)
Enrico Milani: cello, objects
Sergio Marchesini: piano, electronics
Andrea Ruggeri: percussion, electronics
Gianluca Segato: lap steel guitar, electronics
Alberto Bebo Zuanon: double bass
Together we are Sonic Investigation Unit
Flow Project
I am very proud to share I’ve been selected as one of the artists for FLOW, a soundscape project exploring the memory and present of rivers through sound.!
For my contribution to the project I will explore using field recordings and data sonification as compositional tools.
A collaboration between Cities and Memory, University of Padova and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, transforming field recordings, research and satellite images into reimagined river narratives. Launching at European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, May 2026.
Thanks to the Cities and Memory – https://citiesandmemory.com/
Nell’aria alta!
A record full of music and poetry, featuring Vasco Mirandola, and many many fantastic musicians!
Tracce di Futuri
We are very happy to announce that our work with D20ArtLab has been selected for “Tracce di Futuri”, a selection of contemporary art works on display at Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, Vicenza. For info check out: https://www.metamorfosigallery.it/. With and thanks to: Francesco Ganassin.
La montagna che cura
E’ uscito su Rai Play Sound questo bel podcast con molte musiche scritte con la Bottega Baltazar!
Ventiquattro giornate di registrazioni lungo i sentieri delle Alpi e degli Appennini e una decina di incontri per preparare le uscite sul terreno. Epitome di un fitto intreccio di colloqui con operatori, medici, volontari, con persone affette da dipendenze patologiche, problemi di salute e disagio psichico, La montagna che cura, il podcast di Luca Calzolari e Roberto Mantovani, invita alla scoperta delle esperienze italiane di montagnaterapia, e racconta gli effetti di una cura basata sul potere trasformativo della montagna. Il coro di voci raccolto dal registratore lascia intravedere il metodo seguito dagli autori, che hanno cercato di integrarsi il più possibile con le attività di montagnaterapia. Sarebbe però un errore pensare che la montagnaterapia si esaurisca con qualche camminata in alta quota, si è invece di fronte a una pratica terapeutica complessa, che necessita di un approccio metodologico a carattere terapeutico-riabilitativo e socio-educativo. Una pratica studiata per essere svolta, attraverso il lavoro sulle dinamiche di gruppo, nell’ambiente naturale e culturale della montagna, attingendo anche alle potenzialità racchiuse nel cuore più selvatico delle alte terre, capace di dialogare con la parte più profonda di tutti noi.
Taxi Dreams is one of the Sounds of the Year 2024
Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world.
Sounds of the Year 2024 is the eighth annual Sounds of the Year compilation, which collects together some of the highlights of the hundreds of compositions submitted to Cities and Memory over the course of 2024.
These reimagined compositions cover everything from a night in an Indonesian cemetery and dawn breaking over a Bosnian village to prayers in London’s Westminster Abbey and Mongolian reindeer bells. The artistic approaches used to recompose the recordings are no less diverse, with heartfelt torch songs, spoken word, orchestral epics and bubbling ambient electronics.
Together with Francesco Ganassin I worked on a field recording of a taxi ride in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Deciding how to re-compose this soundscape, meant to us choosing which flow we would give a sound to. Should we sit in the car or definetely step outside of it?
We finally stayed on the reflective side of the journey, enriching a flux of thoughts, developing the suggestions of a singing voice with clarinets, recorders, percussions, synth basses and a divergent pulsating granulator.
I am very happy that Taxi Dreams is among the 15 tracks selected for the compilation!
SettantaKappaDue @ Museo Nazionale della Montagna
“Who climbs higher, sees farther. Who sees farther, dreams longer.”
Walter Bonatti
After the premiere at @trentofilmfestival, the exhibition “It was like going to the moon – K2 1954” containing our work “SettantaKappaDue” moves to the National Mountain Museum of Turin @museo_montagna
TURIN, National Mountain Museum, Piazzale Monte dei Cappuccini 7
31/10/2024 – 30/03/2025
Opening hours:
Tue-Fri 10.30 am – 6.00 pm
Sat and Sun 10.00 am – 6.00 pm