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Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi (aka U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object) are out now on Synesthesia Recordings with the new album called “Nachtmusik aus 01″ (SYN-004), available in digital download only (PayPal, iTunes coming soon).

Listen to 60-second excerpts: (.m3u)

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U.S.O. Project - “Nachtmusik Aus 01″ [Synesthesia Recordings]
A Machine’s dream out of human memories.

Performed and produced by Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi.
SYN-004 © 2009 Synesthesia Recordings. All rights reserved.

TRACKLIST:

1) Part I (12.09)
2) Part II (5.28)
3) Part III (5.37)
4) Part IV (17.48)

RELEASE INFO:

Artist:  U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object
Title:  Nachtmusik aus 01
Cat.No:  SYN-004
File under:  Experimental/Electronic
Format:  Digital
Release date:  7.2009

Artwork by Jorinde Voigt [www.jorindevoigt.com]

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Diptychon VII
VII/1 + VII/2 (Deklination Rotation Doppelte Akustische Impulse, Standpunktwechsel / Richtungsansammlungen,
Richtungs-Loops / Deklinationsablauf)

Jorinde Voigt
Berlin 2007
Ink, graphite on paper
114,4 x 30 cm + 114,5 x 210 cm (total 114,5 x 240 cm)
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The video Invisible Words (an excerpt from InharmoniCity) has been selected for the second edition of Crosstalk Video Art Festival, which will be held in Budapest on June 25 - 30, 2009.

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La collaborazione fra U.S.O. Project (duo di sperimentazione elettroacustica formato da Matteo Milani e Federico Placidi che si divide fra Roma e Milano) e Selfish (progetto visuale di Giovanni Antignano che spazia fra video art e performance live) dà vita ad un prodotto audiovisivo dal linguaggio complesso e articolato, eppure ricco di immaginazione ed emotività. “InharmoniCity” si divide in tre sezioni distinte: ‘Girl Running’ e ‘Invisible Words’ sono percorsi attraverso il tessuto urbano metropolitano che scandiscono un flusso congiunto di immagini e suoni dal ritmo serrato, ‘…From The Past… Out of The Future…’ procede invece utilizzando il video come una tela su cui pixel e frequenze tracciano segni informali, fra sequenze in chiaroscuro e bagliori luminescenti. Un interessante esperimento sinestetico portato a termine con lucidità e padronanza dei propri mezzi. (7) Massimiliano Busti

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Synesthesia Recordings

Synesthesia Recordings is pleased to announce a ‘Call for electroacoustic works - 2009‘.

All presented music works should fit one of the following categories:

  1. Works for recorded media alone
  2. Works for recorded media and instrumental solo

Works should be produced using any conceivable analog device processing tools (pedals, no input mixers, analog synthesizers, custom built devices).

The use of computer or any digital device (except a DAW for the tracking/mixing) is not allowed.
The use of working techniques and hardware should be documented with a detailed document in PDF format to be included within the work submission.

A description of the composition poetics and aesthetic goals should be included for release purposes as well.

The produced work should be rendered as a stereo 44.1 kHz, 24 bit, WAV (or any Quicktime-compatible) sound file.

The use of instrumental soloist is limited to one of the following instruments:

Violin, Violoncello, Double bass, Flute, Clarinet in B, Bass Clarinet, Soprano and Alto Saxophone.

The score should be submitted together with the recording in one of the following formats: .sib or PDF.
If the soloist is not available at the moment of the recording session, a quick render via a virtual instrument is allowed and welcome.

In this case, please send us two different sound files, one including the simulated solo performance and a “clean” copy of the electroacoustic work.

Synesthesia Recordings will provide the required soloist for the final Recording, Mix, and Mastering sessions.

The production will take place at Millenium Audio Recording Studios in Rome, Italy.
Compositions should last around 15-20 minutes ca.

A personal BIO of around 100 words is requested as well.

The deadline for submissions is the 31st October 2009.

The reading panel will be announced during the second half of May 2009. Winners will be announced in December 2009. The selected works will be published by Synesthesia Recordings during the first quarter of 2010.

For any more questions contact us at submissions at synesthesiarecordings dot com

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(update) IMPORTANT:

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR AUDIO FILES USING OUR DROPBOX ONLINE SERVICE.
SCORES CAN BE SEND AS ATTACHMENT VIA EMAIL TO OUR SUBMISSION ADDRESS.

Electroacoustic works HAVE to be realized with ANALOG DEVICES, which means:

  1. use of Filters, Ring Modulators, Oscillators, Frequency Shifters, Piezoelectric microphones, modified Speakers and so on.
  2. CUSTOM build instruments or HACKED ones are welcomed.
  3. Live electronics is fine but only by mean of ANALOG DEVICES.

Please you have to document how did you make your tape-music. This step is important to us.

DO NOT SEND works made as follows:

  1. CD tracks with pre-rendered DIGITALLY PROCESSED material using any plug-in.
  2. COMPUTER MUSIC works, tapes.
  3. No Computer, no Max/MSP or PD patches, no SuperCollider.

Please refer to the technology which was available between the 50’s -70’s in most of the electronic studios around the world.

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This year we will attend the 2009 edition of the GRM’s annual festival of experimental electronic music in Paris.
Leaving the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de la Radio, Présences Électroniques will be held at CENTQUATRE, a multidisciplinary cultural center, from Friday 13th March to Sunday 15th March. Featured artists: Mika Vainio, Thomas Ankersmit, Bernard Parmegiani, David Toop, Charlemagne Palestine and more.
All concerts are free.

CENTQUATRE 104, rue d’Aubervilliers ou 5, rue Curial - Paris, 19e

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See you in Paris! M&F

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Track: First Contact
Artist: graphicalSound
CD: Shapes
Author: Matteo Milani
Duration: 8:05
Label: Synesthesia Recordings
CD No.: SYN 003
Time: 40:09 - 47:30

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Quiet Space is a place where the music will let you free your mind from the everyday. The music is the narrative, it explains itself while letting you put it in a place.

It is music to help you concentrate; music to accompany your meditations; music that can focus you on the details of the sound; music that you can be absorbed by or have it wash past you. It will take you beyond the normal notion of what people call “ambient” music.

Incorporating 20th century composition, blissful pop and ethereal drones, the Quiet Space offers a chance to reflect and and relax, a soundscape to in which to lose yourself.

Paul Gough, presenter of Quiet Space.

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Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address (form).

GRAPHICALSOUND - SHAPES (Synesthesia Recordings)

Behind graphicalSound is Matteo Milani, whom we recently heard for the first time in Vital Weekly 644 as one half of the U.S.O. Project. Milani started at the end of the 80s, splicing tape at radio stations. These days its all about the computer, ‘blending synthetic and organic sound material, sharing the Pierre Schaeffer ‘audio vision’ of musique concrete’. The four pieces on this release are nice, but hardly musique concrete, unless of course the sounds have been altered to such an extent that we don’t recognize the original input - that might very well be possible. Only in ‘Water Emotions’ we do recognize the water sounds and it seems that Milani here tries to play a cover of ‘Blanket Level Approach’ by The Hafler Trio. Its more ambient music of a highly digital kind, time stretched sounds, filtered with tons of granulating sound effects. Flowing like the best Hypnos release, but less based on analogue synthesizers and more computers. A minor difference, and probably not a very important one. Milani plays his music with great skill and this is a very nice ambient work. (Frans de Waard)

tracklist for Vital Weekly 663:

0000 Tune
0014 Baja - Deleth
0313 Lars Myvrell - The Gleaming Water (Monaco)
0615 Chas Smith - Nakadai
0918 Anna Zaradny - Mauve 1
1222 Ferran Fages - Desfer La Pausa
1535 Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi - Snow Palace Hotel (C)
1837 graphicalSound - Water Emotions
2139 Alva Noto - Xerrox Sora
2442 Thomas Bel - Die Linien Des Herbstes
2743 Evapori - Rehearsal II
3046 Undo - Des Tournages
3352 James Whitehead - 4′33” As A Determined Object
3654 Antn Hrkwk - Infinite Juice Parade
3956 Simon Brown/Dylan Crichton - Stupid Desert
4037 Luca Mauri - A Quiet Storm
4341 Philipm Halke - A Place That I Said Goodbye To
4641 PM - Electronic Church 17.9.08
4943 Richard Ramirez
5252 Tune

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RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE (2009)

U.S.O. PROJECT+SELFISH - INHARMONICITY (Dvd-Video)

C’è poco di armonico in questa seconda release della videolabel Zerofeedback. Scorbutico è il termine che mi sono ritrovato fra le mani più spesso. Intanto la genesi.
Il progetto nasce dalla collaborazione fra Matteo Milani e Federico Placidi, in arte U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object, e Giovanni Artignano - in arte Selfish. Entrambe le polarità di questo progetto si occupano di arte digitale, i primi di musica il secondo di immagine in movimento. L’operazione messa in piedi è assai particolare perché racchiude in circa sessanta minuti, suddivisi in tre tracce, quella che sarei portato a chiamare performance – o liveset. La colonna audio fa da struttura portante all’opera attorno alla quale vengono campionate immagini che rispondono sincronicamente alle frequenze sonore. Il dato reale dal quale attinge Antignano è lo spazio visivo della città, il paesaggio urbano d’un agglomerato di indefinibile collocazione geografica, le sue immagini danno forma al paesaggio sonoro generato dalla colonna audio di Milani e Placidi.
Lo spazio urbano emerge da un magma sonoro e visivo fatto d’un numero sempre crescente di linee orizzontali che lascia intravedere appena immagini scorrevoli da destra a sinistra di scheletri architettonici. La prima traccia Girl Running (8’43”) sembra volerci raccontare un prologo dello spazio che andremo a visitare nei capitoli successivi, un’origine spettrale dello spazio urbano che verrà, narrata in scala di grigi ad alto contrasto. Invisible Words (12’41”) ci catapulta, fra distorsioni sonore, entro un punto di vista elettronico su d’una città fatta di grattacieli, una specie di occhio meccanico incapace di cogliere un’immagine chiara e definita. L’instabilità del quadro è frenetica.
Le interferenze incessanti sono praticamente invisibili per l’occhio, ben oltre il percepibile, ed è in questa meticolosa maniacalità della ricerca dell’imperfezione che risiede una delle caratteristiche peculiari di questo InharmoniCity. Una ricerca perseguita ostinatamente per tutta la durata del lavoro che rappresenta la concretizzazione dello sforzo individuale tipica dell’artista sperimentale, ovvero colui per il quale il film può esistere solamente entro determinate condizioni d’autarchia estetica; è entro questa modalità produttiva che da sempre il cinema sperimentale produce le proprie opere e proprio per questo è considerato difficile da vedere o, se si preferisce, scorbutico.
Il valore della sperimentazione non è mai fine a se stesso, è una traiettoria da percorrere per allargare i confini di quel che è noto, spesso attraverso l’eccesso ma invariabilmente andando nella direzione opposta al flusso della norma e dei codici preconfezionati. Jack Smith, John Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Paolo Gioli, Alberto Grifi, Walter Ruttmann e Takahiko Iimura sono solo alcuni dei cineasti che pur avendo realizzato dei film che solitamente si è portati a nominare come inguardabili hanno lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia del cinema e, molto probabilmente, se fossero ancora a noi contemporanei utilizzerebbero proprio il linguaggio della performance o del liveset per dare forma al proprio istinto.
Dunque InharmonyCity è sperimentazione audiovisiva che sfocia nella terza traccia …From the Past…Out of the Future (41’04”) che a voler essere sbrigativi si potrebbe raccontare come un Koyaanisqatsi anfetaminico.

InharmonyCity è un’opera coraggiosa, che travalica molti generi dell’audiovideo contemporaneo, vicina a molte produzioni internazionali, una su tutte: lo splendido Kuvaputki diretto da Edward Quist sulle musiche dei Pan Sonic.

A questo punto perché non chiamarsi registi? (Alessio Galbiati)

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excerpt from the liveset @ ZAUM - January 14, 2009 - Cantieri Culturali Ex Macelli, Prato (IT)

Introducing the new DVD “InharmoniCity” by Zerofeedback/Synesthesia Recordings © 2009

Live Set for Analog and Digital devices, Video Feed:
-Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi (aka U.S.O Project - Unidentified Sound Object) / Analog and Digital devices
-Giovanni Antignano (aka Selfish) / Moving Visual Art

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We are very happy to announce that the dvd-video ‘InharmoniCity‘ is out.  It’s a co-production by U.S.O. Project with visual artist Selfish. Limited edition hard copies (300) are available via our shop or via Zerofeedback (PayPal - $16). The press release is available here (pdf).

An excerpt from the dvd  ‘InharmoniCity’:


Girl Running - U.S.O. Project + Selfish on Vimeo.

TRACKLIST:

1) Girl Running (08.48)
2) Invisible Words (12.20)
3) …from the Past…out of the Future… (40.36)


InharmoniCity is packaged in a 2-panel wallet.
InharmoniCity

Best played at high volume in the dark.

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