Synesthesia Recordings

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

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

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.

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

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

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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Jury

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

(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.

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