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Attilio Novellino - Through Glass

Attilio Novellino, Through Glass, experimental, audio art, contemporary music, digital, art, Aurelio Cianciotta, Attilio-Novellino----Through-Glass.jpg CD - Valeot
Attilio Novellino is a musician-experimenter and a native of Catanzaro, whose sound is strongly soaked in a dark and intense cinematic appeal with echoes of post-rock music. Here we find dissonances and environmental melodies together with liquefied sequences, drones and auditory whirlpools. Melancholic  ... [ Continue ]


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Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello - Age of Insects

Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello, Age of Insects, experimental, audio art, drone, glitch, impro, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mem1-+-Stephen-Vitiello---Age-of-Insects-.jpgCD - Dragon's Eye
This latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl in Stephen Vitiello's Viginia studio between May 2009 and January 2010. The sound pieces in question, organized into  ... [ Continue ]


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Tobias Reber - Backup Aura

Tobias Reber, Backup Aura, Hyperfunction Label, audio art, experimental, field recordings, sounscape, Centrozoon, Aurelio Cianciotta, TobiasReber_BackupAura.jpgCD - Hyperfunction Label
Intuition and algorithmic composition appear to be the cornerstones of meticulous and passionate research conducted by Tobias Reber, a member of the Centrozoon ensemble. Reber is an experimenter and electronic musician very skillful in interweaving field recordings and courteous samples,  ... [ Continue ]


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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . soundscape

Stephan Moore - To Build A Field

Stephan Moore. To Build A Field, Deep Listening, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, audio art, acoustic/digital, experimental, soundscape, Aurelio Cianciotta, StephanMoore_ToBuildAField.jpgCD - Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer  ... [ Continue ]


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acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . experimental . soundscape

Maju - Maju-5

Maju, Maju-5, Extreme, Sakana Hosomi e Masaki Narita, acoustic/digital, ambient, drone, experimental, soundscape, Aurelio Cianciotta, Maju_Maju-5.jpg CD - Extreme
In Japanese, "Maju" (pronounced 'may-you') has approximately the same meaning as the English word "cocoon". So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in neo-lounge intimate trends, usually derived from frivolous electronic entertainment and consumed in  ... [ Continue ]


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Spyweirdos - Ten numbers

Spyweirdos, Ten numbers, Creative Space, CD + DVD, Murcof, Aris Michalopoulos, acoustic/digital, drone, experimental, soundscape, Aurelio Cianciotta, Spyweirdos_TenNumbers.jpg CD + DVD - Creative Space
Very abstract and glitchy electronica, soundscapes resulting from a measured mix of digital and acoustic elements (the latter aren't sampled, but played ad-hoc for every single track). Barely hinted rhythmic patterns, drones, then violins, cellos, pianos. Melancholic sequences by the Greek combo Spyweirdos,  ... [ Continue ]


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audio art . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound . soundscape

Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny - The View Underneath

Ignaz Schick, Dawid Szczesny, The View Underneath, Non Visual Objects, audio art, experimental, field recordings, electroacustic, glitc'n'click, Aurelio Cianciotta, SchickSzczesny-_TheViewUnde.jpgCD - Non Visual Objects
Ethereal atmospheres lightly veined with 'jazzy' attitudes with a noir penchant but very conceptual in the abstract electronic sequences. The sound design of this duo melts Ignaz Schick's skepticism towards digital technologies and interest towards objects which can emit peculiar sounds with the creative use of  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental . field recording . soundscape . soundtracks

Frank Rothkamm - Lax

Frank Rothkamm, Lax, Flux Records, rothkamm_lax.jpg CD - Flux Records
This is a brilliant conceptual posthumous soundtrack, inspired by the Millenium fear, trying to sonify this atmosphere during the two years before 2000 in Los Angeles. Fear, city on the edge of chaos, media upcoming hysteria, noise are described with an emotional tour of frequencies, recorded with "vintage"  ... [ Continue ]


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Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo - Hades

Marc Behrens,  Paulo Raposo, Hades, and/OAR, behrensraposo_hades.jpg CD - and/OAR
Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo made this recordings one by one at the beginning, on board a ferry boat and in other places near the Lisbon area's landing places within the space of three years (2001 - 2003). All the recording were afterwards edited and condensed in only four tracks, poetically hovering  ... [ Continue ]


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ambient . electronica . soundscape

Tor Lundvall - Empty City

Tor Lundvall, Empty City, Strange Fortune, torlundvall_emptycity.jpg CD - Strange Fortune
An electronic production rich in elegant textures, diluted sounds and dreaming atmospheres, mostly thanks to the iterated melodies that peep out from strange voices and meditative drones. Gloomy and sensitive envelopes, that deliberately reveal an emotional approach, far from the theoretical rigor of  ... [ Continue ]


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breakcore . electronica . soundscape

Nebulo - Kolia

Nebulo, Kolia, Hymen, electronica, breakcore, soundscapes, Thomas Pujols, sound designer, Conservatorio di Bordeaux, ambient, minimal, noise, glitch, Aurelio Cianciotta, nebulo_kolia.jpg CD - Hymen
This the Thomas Pujols, aka Nebulo, fascinating debut album. He can flatter himself of a Conservatoire National de Bordeaux degree in electroacoustic composition and at the same time he's fond of contemporary electronic music intricacies, unraveling amongst genres and trends (as anybody  ... [ Continue ]


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The Idealist - I Am The Fire

The Idealist, I Am The Fire, Nosordo, theidealist_iamthefire.jpg CD - Nosordo
Rarefied ambient-style elaborations, sensible dissonances and dreaming, minimal atmospheres. Six tracks selected by Joachim Nordwall, sound artist from Gothenburg (Sweden) that debuts with the moniker 'The Idealist', feeding dilated scans and uneasy frequencies, not unrelated to space-noise  ... [ Continue ]


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Autechre/The Hafler Trio - Aeo3/3Hae

Autechre, The Hafler Trio, Aeo3/3Hae, Die Stadt, autechrethehaflertrio.jpg 2CD - Die Stadt If shape really derived from function (as stated during the first modernist wave by functionalist architects), the elaborate package of this double release would be enough to provide a lot of elements with which to decode the (aesthetic-stylistic) reasons for such  ... [ Continue ]


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