‘InharmoniCity’ review by Vital Weekly
Sep 16th, 2008 by U.S.O. Project
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U.S.O. PROJECT – INHARMONICITY (Synesthesia Recordings)
The Italian label Synesthesia Recordings is ‘to be intended as a repository of live improvised electroacoustic works. The main goal is to retrieve the late Renaissance praxis of ‘Ricercare’ intended as exploration of a technical device playing it, subverting it in different ways’.
Translated to the world of audio, this is done by the U.S.O Project, a duo of Matteo Milani (from Milan actually) and Federico Placidi, both of whom I never heard. Both have a background with digital sound synthesis and acoustic sound treatments. U.S.O. stands for Unidentified Sound Object and very much like flying objects, their music moves about, seemingly off course. Whatever they do, it mainly sounds electronically. There is hardly an acoustic device in sight with these boys, or perhaps there were, but then there are well hidden in the electronic mass of sound that is cooked up here.
In ‘Invisible Worlds’ the radio waves make up the sound sources. The long ‘…From The Past… Out of The Future…’ is fortyminutes long and the most ’silent’ piece here. I think this piece sums up what this project stands for: long meandering sounds, which come from nowhere and which don’t seem to go anywhere. Just a stream of silent sounds. Like with Concrete Cookie & The Maggot Farmer release reviewed elsewhere, this is not about carefully composing music, but playing moods and textures, albeit of a somewhat lighter side of the moon. A refined late night listening session. (Frans de Waard)
tracklist for Vital Weekly 644:
0000 Tune
0014 Tujiko Noriko & Lawrence English & John Chantler – Make Me Your Private Party
0340 General Fuzz – Starry
0730 Keijo – Ain’t Got No Home
1025 Mika Martini & Oscar Chaves – Revolver Cenizas
1328 Anders Dahl – Doorbell, Tuning Fork, Crotale, Clarinet etc.
1630 Concrete cookie & The Maggot Farmer – Tropic Of Cancer
1927 C. Hilton – The Smoking Mirror 1
2233 Cynas
2610 U.S.O. Project – Girl Running
2916 Mubles – Beercan Suite
3214 Tune
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