tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound/2 2012-02-07T10:56:30Z Movable Type 3.2 tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.9206 2012-02-07T10:56:16Z 2012-02-07T10:56:30Z

CD - Thorsten Knaub Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves with audio productions that are somehow correlated with architectures and abandoned spaces, be they buildings or disused structures, old ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.9204 2012-02-02T10:41:12Z 2012-02-02T10:45:23Z

CD - Die Schachtel It's not irrelevant that "Death By Water" was recorded on the small island of Giudecca in Venice, even if the distilled threads shine very abstractly and synthetically - a highly imaginative trip among field recordings,...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Die Schachtel
It's not irrelevant that "Death By Water" was recorded on the small island of Giudecca in Venice, even if the distilled threads shine very abstractly and synthetically - a highly imaginative trip among field recordings, effects and multi-faceted patterns, effectively unraveled by Fabio Selvafiorita and Valerio ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta ]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.8890 2012-01-26T15:36:46Z 2012-01-26T15:37:51Z

CD - Fang Bomb A hoarse voice stands out. This is the beginning of "Scotona Song", conceived as something like an opening sketch that features walkie-talkie humming and a droning organ - a dirge characterized by minimal but expressive musical...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Fang Bomb
A hoarse voice stands out. This is the beginning of "Scotona Song", conceived as something like an opening sketch that features walkie-talkie humming and a droning organ - a dirge characterized by minimal but expressive musical elements. "Panoptic" by Paul Baran moves on to balance multiple influences in a sort of melancholic instrumental avant-jazz, a hybrid conceptual and electro-acoustic ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.8888 2012-01-24T09:41:35Z 2012-01-24T09:42:47Z

DVD - Winds Measure Randomly found old Kodachrome slides and an uncomplicated digital set-up (laptops, midi controllers, a video projector, two diaprojectors, dimmer, lights and induction/contact microphones) are the basis of "Lacunae", an audio-visual project by Gill Arno, better known...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it DVD - Winds Measure
Randomly found old Kodachrome slides and an uncomplicated digital set-up (laptops, midi controllers, a video projector, two diaprojectors, dimmer, lights and induction/contact microphones) are the basis of "Lacunae", an audio-visual project by Gill Arno, better known as Mpld, the Italian-born music ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta ]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.8885 2012-01-19T09:20:59Z 2012-01-19T09:22:01Z

CD Anty-Copyright Let's be honest, when faced with a new Anty-Copyright crew release we are always prepared to encounter something unusual, radical and extremist, even from the perspective of audio art and experimental music. Even so, these...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD Anty-Copyright
Let's be honest, when faced with a new Anty-Copyright crew release we are always prepared to encounter something unusual, radical and extremist, even from the perspective of audio art and experimental music. Even so, these ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.8883 2012-01-12T09:21:17Z 2012-01-12T09:22:05Z

CD - Domizil S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating:...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2012:/sound//2.8878 2012-01-02T15:09:18Z 2012-01-02T15:10:15Z

CD - Ahornfelder The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies....

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Ahornfelder
The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta ]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8875 2011-12-27T16:14:17Z 2011-12-27T16:15:26Z

CD- Kvitnu At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD- Kvitnu
At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish]]> Aurelio Cianciotta ]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8873 2011-12-15T08:43:08Z 2011-12-15T08:44:16Z

CD - Brut Claire La Manufacture de Chaussures in Bordeaux is a 1930s shoe factory that since 1998 has been transformed into TNT, a urban place for the re-appropriation of public space. This building is being used as a space...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Brut Claire
La Manufacture de Chaussures in Bordeaux is a 1930s shoe factory that since 1998 has been transformed into TNT, a urban place for the re-appropriation of public space. This building is being used as a space for independent artistic creation and promotion. Despite the restructuring (substantial]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8693 2011-12-13T10:25:48Z 2011-12-13T10:27:25Z

CD - Oral Even with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Oral
Even with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8700 2011-12-05T11:29:21Z 2011-12-05T11:30:39Z

Sub Rosa Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it Sub Rosa
Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8691 2011-11-29T11:05:07Z 2011-11-29T11:05:53Z

CD - Mort Aux Vaches "Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Mort Aux Vaches
"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental]]> Aurelio Cianciotta ]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8690 2011-11-24T17:04:17Z 2011-11-24T17:05:17Z

CD - Touch When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Touch
When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to write music for a play about the life of the "damned poet", has ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8891 2011-11-15T11:59:28Z 2011-11-15T12:00:26Z

CD - Pogus Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - Pogus
Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]> tag:www.neural.it,2011:/sound//2.8686 2011-11-02T15:21:03Z 2011-11-02T15:22:14Z

CD - EE Tapes EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody:...

Aurelio Cianciotta http://wickedstyle.neural.it CD - EE Tapes
EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ]]> Aurelio Cianciotta]]>