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Sorry for the delay in issuing the verdict, but the submissions were numerous, and it was difficult to choose the winners. We decided to publish more than one work, since many were worthy and consistent to the subject of the call. We have rewarded the ability to work within the perceptual aspects of the composition, the consistency of the materials, the recognizability of the elements of timbre, dynamics and perspective.
The album will be released in digital format (via iTunes and other digital shops) and on Compact Cassette, limited edition (80 pieces). This looks like the most suitable media to represent the spirit of the project.

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Here are the winners (works for recorded media alone):

Volker Hennes - “eromenoi erastai”
Chris Mercer - “deification”
Jeroen Visser - “The Spanning”
Ian Helliwell - “Convergence”

In the coming weeks we will keep you informed about the album’s production status.

Matteo Milani & Federico Placidi

What I like minimalistic improvisational electronics for is its intimacy, one can even say “homeness”. It seems that it is right here, very close, is creeping and fluttering hoping to leave its deep and significant trace in life of those to whom it had to penetrate. You listen and see musicians, designers hunched up at their laptops, with their virtual or rather tangible controllers ruling the sound surrounding space. They change the picture, on some transparent body of airy mass they scrap their abstract messages. Like an Italian duet Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi making project U.S.O. Project, the title of which stands for Unidentified Sound Object. That’s really problematic to identify the sources of the sounds, manipulated by Milani and Placidi in their latest work Nachtmusik aus 01. I suppose there’s double bass accompanying live project in 2006 (this record can be found on YouTube). Be it so or not, here’s of no doubt the material originally born on this planet without using computers and synthesizers. Though under creative manipulations’ influence it turns into a voluminous, rustling, squeaking, droning audio structure, unique sound object. One can creep abreast with it, run along flat surfaces rounding obstacles one by one. Happen to be in one big room with them. The hell with room - inside a huge hangar! Hangar filled with cases, boxes, technique, radios, light devices producing dull light… Carefully move through the dark, narrow paths looking back and taking a breath to avoid a sudden attack of claustrophobia… pi micron

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Our latest audiovisual work “InharmoniCity” will be featured during the 4th edition of the Streaming Festival, with screenings from the 20th to 30th of November 2009.

The Streaming Festival focuses on artistic and innovative audio visual art and film. This event takes place on the internet, where films are broadcast full screen with high image quality. It’s organized by the isfth foundation, a non-profit foundation based in The Hague (The Netherlands) that provides support for projects that encourage the understanding of audiovisual art.

Anyone with an internet connection can plug into a festival stream from any location, at any given time and start watching contemporary art and films.

Streaming Festival: InharmoniCity

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Fiarì Ensemble organizes a contemporary music series of concerts, In scena, in Turin.
The last concert of the festival, Call for Scores, combines electronic processing of sound to the ductility of the Fiarì Ensemble.

Federico Placidi’s (U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object) new work “… Solo…” for Clarinet in B flat, Cello and Live Electronics will be performed on December 3rd  at Teatro Vittoria. The concert will also feature prèmieres by Andrea Valle (Detti del Tuono), Domenico Sciajno (Terfly), Joshua Parmenter (Corpi sonori), Krzysztof Gawlas (AI Riff) and Donald Craig (Sediment).

“… Solo…” for Clarinet in B flat, Cello and Live Electronics.

The title encapsulates the idea of a “single ideal instrument” made up of two “registers”, that of the Cello and the Clarinet.
The electronics in “real-time” defines” the “connective tissue”or Lattice.
The music that flows it is the product of dynamic interaction between the two domains (instrumental and digital).
“Clouds of high density burning plasma, corrugated structures are organizing in space and time, relaxing and cooling down a little at a time.
“Strings” of energy exhibit elementary modes of vibration and structure themself harmonically and temporally to flow in a “statistical field” of morphologically recombinant micro-events that estabilish hierarchies of similarities and differences.
Gradually the sound material is concentrating in a continuous and polarized stream, then shrink into a high energy “singularity”.

Sound director: Matteo Milani
Live Electronics: Federico Placidi

FIARÌ ENSEMBLE
Luciano Condina, Flute
Gianluca Calonghi, Clarinet
Massimo Barrera, Cello
Gilbert Impérial, Electric Guitar
Riccardo Balbinutti, Percussions

Marilena Solavagione, Director

Submissions for the ‘Call for electroacoustic works - 2009‘ are now closed.
Thanks to everyone who sent us their works.
Winners will be announced in December 2009.
The selected works will be published by Synesthesia Recordings during the first quarter of 2010.

Jury

Federico Placidi, Matteo Milani (aka U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object)
Eduardo Carlo Natoli, composer
Daniele Corsi, composer

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

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Track: Part I
Artist: U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object
CD: Nachtmusik aus 01
Author: Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi
Duration: 12:09
Label: Synesthesia Recordings
CD No.: SYN 004

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Steve Lacy–Straws–The Rise
Teiji Ito–Tenno–#5
Various Artists–Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music Volume 1 1955-1966–Rudolph Escher: “The Long Christmas Dinner”
Various Artists–Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008–Yan Jun: “It’s More Than Enough”
***U.S.O. Project–”Nachtmusik Aus 01″–#1***
David Mooney–Facts About Air–What’s Absent is Present
Ju Suk Reet Meate, Oblivia, and John Wiese –Inside and Out–A Cooling Thought
Stephan Moore–to build a field–Comae
Lapslap–ITCH–not cheddar but
Andrew Graydon–At Bay–lossless
Nurse with Wound–The Surveillance Lounge–Close To You
Charles Hayward–Switch On War–Never Before
Christian Marclay–Record Without A Cover–excerpt
Peter Kowald Ort Ensemble Wuppertal–Cuts–#’s 17-20
Michael Johnsen–Patience Tryouts–#5
Charles Dodge–Cascando
Phaeton Derniere Danse/Le Syndicat–Theopanie a Visu–La Dernière Lumière
Phauss-Karkowski-Bilting–s/t–Immortals By My Side
Onomatopoeia–A Marble Holder from Andover
Various Artists–Recommended Records Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 2–Jocelyn Robert: “Christi crucifixi ultima verba”
Carrier Band–Voice Coil–Frozen Speaker
Keith Rowe & Sachiko M–contact–rectangle; oval

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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)

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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