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testing LDR matrix
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testing LDR matrix

Oct 5, 2024

I built a LDR Matrix to use with videos, lights, LED, shadows to send variable and everchanging CV.   testing it on Macumbista Benjolin   testing with radical chip   feedback & drones  ...

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noisescapes
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noisescapes

Aug 25, 2024

solo • duo • solo   UNVO 2 with KD2   UNVO 2 with RGB LED & mini solar panels   UNVO 2 con mani     UNVO 2, touchboard & sitka resonators   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) UNVOLIGHTS...

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il suono blu
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il suono blu

Aug 19, 2024

🔵🔷🔹🔷🔵🔷🔷🔹🔷🔵🔷🔹🔷🔵🔷🔷🔹 🈚️ Respirando lentamente, ascoltando l’effimera risonanza di un tempo immutabile; pallido come l’ombra di visioni lontane, fragile, come il gesto nascosto di un silenzio irraggiungibile. Blu, come il desiderio profondo di non esserci piú. 🦋   …things beyond and future things…...

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radical chip(s)
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radical chip(s)

Jul 27, 2024

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radical22
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radical22

May 27, 2024

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granular joy
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granular joy

May 16, 2024

Finally finished this box with 2 granular drones, joysticks & force sensitive resistors. This ‘granular joy’ box is dedicated to Jay for all his great work, kindness and inspiration @krustpunkhippy        ...

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worming
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worming

Apr 19, 2024

Here’s  some explorations with the great Erd / Worm by Martin Howse Definitely one of my favorite modules so far       View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio...

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solar counterpoints
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solar counterpoints

Apr 12, 2024

☀️➿☀️〰️➿➿☀️☀️☀️➿〰️➿☀️➿〰️☀️〰️☀️ 🈚️ Thanks @_sunhaus @namefarminert & @krustpunkhippy for help and inspiration ☀️🙏☀️  ...

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Strega
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Strega

Dec 25, 2023

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram...

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MIDI paths
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MIDI paths

Dec 8, 2023

Sonic assemblages using a variety of MIDI paths     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared...

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the pearl
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the pearl

Nov 10, 2023

🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️   ‘Remain silent, and you sink into a realm of shadows; speak, and you fall into a deep pit. Try, and you’re as far away as sky from earth; give up, and you’ll never attain. Enormous waves go on and on, foaming breakers flood the skies: who’s got the bright pearl that calms the oceans?’ I-ch’ing 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️...

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otto oscillatori
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otto oscillatori

Oct 27, 2023

    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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drones and feedback
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drones and feedback

Oct 15, 2023

…with FM buddha machine and hikari monos   This is for Christiaan Virant 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 “If you would be free of greed, first you have to leave egotism behind. The best mental exercise to relinquishing egotism is contemplating impermanence.” (Dogen) 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🈚️🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹    ...

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Hikari Monos & Hikari Duos
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Playing with 2 wonderful little synths View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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twittering machine
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twittering machine

Oct 1, 2023

more fun with FSR boxes and Heraclitan Rhythm Machine     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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luci e fantasmagorie
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luci e fantasmagorie

Sep 21, 2023

      View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View...

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onde oscure
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onde oscure

Sep 8, 2023

    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) Sound really is a mysterious and obscure kind of energy, a nexus of physics, mind and culture, connecting us to a vast array of emotions and memories while listening to the resonances of enigmatic and visceral forces. A shimmering thread, a whispering breath, …or a school for democracy. In...

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HRM with FSR box
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HRM with FSR box

Aug 1, 2023

…and angry birds   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   and with Benjolin   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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shadows of zeitgeist
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shadows of zeitgeist

Jul 30, 2023

…embracing chaos, emerging noise “Chapter Five, Composing We see emerging, piecemeal and with the greatest ambiguity, the seeds of a new noise, one exterior to the institutions and customary sites of political conflict. A noise of Festival and Freedom, it may create the conditions for a major discontinuity extending far beyond its field. It may be the essential element in a strategy for the...

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cross talks
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cross talks

Jul 23, 2023

CPL Cross Crosstalk   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   CPL Cross Crosstalk with Blippoo and Benjolin   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) CPL Cross Crosstalk & Stereofiled long noise trip  ...

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SUPERIMPOSER
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SUPERIMPOSER

Jul 16, 2023

finally ITISYSM‘s release of SUPERIMPOSER is here! Click on the image below and ENJOY! also on bandcamp   The debut of Vancouver’s I THINK I SAW YOU SEE ME is a rousing, panoramic affair that bursts through the confines of its chosen format, the cassette. The quintet collectively finds the mid-point between proggy intricacy and the brazen heft of so-called math-rock, and departs from there...

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QS & MIDI
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QS & MIDI

Jun 10, 2023

Quadrantid Swarm driven by Reaktor via MIDI   Quadrantid Swarm driven by MaxMSP pitch to MIDI (via mic input) …with sinewave drones in the background   Quadrantid Swarm driven by MaxMSP pitch to MIDI …with Zeitgeist   Quadrantid Swarm MIDI driven by MaxMSP Jitter …and prepared piano (motion to MIDI to sound)...

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zeitgeist & maelstrom trio
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To a zeitgeist filled with dreams, endless dances of empathy, and hopes for the very essence of each and every existence.   Rob Hordijk’s circuits in chaotic interactions (Blippoo, Benjolin & Zeitgeist) maelstrom trio A   maelstrom trio B    ...

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la tavola magica
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la tavola magica

Dec 12, 2022

A few years ago I started using wood boards from mill waste to build both resonators and touch interfaces. I find the touchboards to be a great tool to allow a certain kind of flow,… or maybe ’embodied resonance’. gesti e figure con mani L’ornamento è attributo della creativitá, gesto e figura / gesture and figure Within the ornament its own origin becomes infinitely...

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armonie fluide e sgangherate
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…another example of not resisting the instrument, starting from a precarious state of balance. I deeply enjoy the raw simplicity of these oscillators, and their involuntary presence. There is always something beautiful in not wanting. If I think about sound as being-outside-oneself I breathe an intensity I can hardly find in any desire or “wanting”, a new kind of ‘interiority’, a displaced and upside...

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feedback and resonance
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assemblaggio con luci
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assemblaggio con luci

Oct 29, 2022

    “From a certain point of view improvisation is the highest mode of musical activity, for it is based on the acceptance of music’s fatal weakness and essential and most beautiful characteristic -its transience. The desire always to be right is an ignoble taskmaster, as is the desire for immortality. The performance of any vital action brings us closer to death; if it...

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HRM & FSR
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HRM & FSR

Oct 14, 2022

Heraclitan Rhythm Machine with Force Sensitive Resistors (FSR box)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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monos solos
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monos solos

Sep 30, 2022

We are all relatives’ when taken as a methodological tool for obtaining knowledge means that we observe the natural world by looking for relationships between various things in it . . . and the total set of relationships makes up the natural world as we experience it. This concept is simply the relativity concept as applied to a universe that people experience as alive...

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Benjolin with FSR boxes, e frottole spaziali
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Lots of fun playing Benjolins with the FSR boxes!   Butterfly Benjolin made by Derek Holzer played with FSR12   frottla aviaria   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   breathing spectra on Benjolin (frottola spaziale)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) FSR 12, with Benjolin and Blippo  ...

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Omaggio a Rob Hordijk
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Omaggio a Rob Hordijk

Sep 8, 2022

…and to his magical instrument, the Blippoo Box   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   “I have always considered sound a “material” to sculpt; thus I consider the “art” aspect of the Blippoo Box to consist of how it sculpts sound...

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September sound meditations
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this one is for Larry @dronefinger and Rene @basssleeper ”Sounds of every sort are surging incessantly through the air. When we walk by the seaside, a salty tang of brine enters our mouth ; when we watch a draught of wormwood being mixed in our presence, a bitter effluence touches it. So from every object flows a stream of matter, spreading out in all...

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fyrall drones
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fyrall drones

Aug 12, 2022

with Jade plant’s random voltage, Pressure Points, Scíon  and a rewired FM Buddha Machine     and a παιάν for Constantine Katsiris     testing FSR with rotary switch (Sept 2022)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   with FSR box   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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gibbering with drones
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gibbering with drones

Aug 7, 2022

Going back 20 years tonight… These toys were already 25yo when I got them and they are still up and running after so long. I’m not sure what happened to all the circuitbenders active in Vancouver in the very early 2000’s, but meanwhile hacking electronics has been already expanding beyond that. In any case, this is nothing nostalgic, …we flow, as always, like leaves...

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Holy Basil 62
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Holy Basil 62

Aug 4, 2022

This one is for all my friends, everywhere. It’s so nice to breathe with some Holy Basil’s energy tonight, while discretely aging a bit more. The thing is that while the modules just reveal fluctuations of micro-voltages, you are immediately brought into a different sentient state of being and playing. The same state we can be when within a forest. The sound though, is...

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Soundgarden 2022
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Soundgarden 2022

Jul 25, 2022

One last beautiful day in the forest with some beautiful sounds, caviidae, othoptera, sinewaves, pinknoise and with some friends playing together. A wonderful ending, hoping to be back in the forest very soon. Trees within trees, resonating trees… a really wonderful time breathing in and resounding within. We need to remember – every single moment – how this kind of beautiful lives really are...

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ambience 22
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ambience 22

Jun 30, 2022

ricercare con mani … for our dreams and wonders … with lightness more ambience videos HERE            ...

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minipolytopes
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minipolytopes

Jun 10, 2022

Honouring Iannis Xenakis and his visionary work on his 100th anniversary Check also META-XENAKIS for international events   More minipolytopes HERE   minipolytope 00   minipolytope 01   minipolytope 02   minipolytope 03   minipolytope 04   minipolytope 05   minipolytope 06   minipolytope 07   minipolytope 08   minipolytope 09   minipolytope 10   minipolytope 11   minipolytope 22 (per Chris Rolfe)  ...

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meditazione sonora per un amico lontano
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One day in the early Spring 1998, an anonymous Japanese man encountered on the Chiyoda Line in Tokyo, told me out of the blue these exact words: “Those who recognize that imagination is the arbiter of reality we call them ‘wise’, those who then put this knowledge into practice in life we call them ‘artists’ “. After that he disappeared in a large crowd...

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amaranto di luce  & other sonic explorations
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a strange Spring… per Walter   per Stefan   per Kenton   for Fabio & Roberto, aka the Regazzi Brothers ; )   for sanity   for the drones   to the full moon   the the crescent moon   to the dreams undreamed and forgone  ...

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bells
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bells

Feb 26, 2022

attuning • detuning [CG] F# B E & A make peace, be peace View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi...

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lamenti senza parole • failure and resistance
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    I go back today to these lines about an old idea of failure and resistance, a paradox maybe. Tough, one I wish to hold on while living in our ever more desperate planet. While not new, Kundera’s words resonate again very strongly with me at this age and time. Maybe too many ‘drops’ have been slowly filling me up. While in a...

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sound engines
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sound engines

Feb 23, 2022

Heraclitan Rhythm Machine & Hydra   Beside myself, there are at least 3 people who might enjoy these sound engines: the two great wizards who kindly and intensely made them for me, Dan and Larry, and @basssleeper who is one of my favourite bass player and a great listener. Cheers to them and every one! …and to Constantine, he has two reasons why. Though after...

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stones again
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stones again

Feb 13, 2022

This is for Julie Andreyev  and Jenni Schine   …with beach stones and slate again. It feels always so great playing with these stones, especially in such a shimmering sunny day, and then continue indoor.  ...

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harsh noise meditation
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harsh noise meditation

Feb 11, 2022

…with liquid lights and distant radio wavesI’m loving playing with theses sharp brash sounds, and these two instruments are really great together. It’s always like a phantasmagoric dive in sonic energies which are constantly present but get triggered or amped by touch, pressure and resistance. Entering microscopic shimmering veils of electrons, disturbed by random currents and abrupt surges, for me is like entering rapid...

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lampeggiatori incadescenti (installazioni domestiche)
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for Kenton @kentonloewen, who has always known my passion for Electricity. ….though it sounds better in Italian, it is just a metaphor to give homage to electricity first, and give credit and love to everyone who like me love it. They all have been further inspiring me in adventuring further in so many ways. When there is no future, in spite of all the...

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4 metamorfosi del legno • omaggio a Thich Nhat Hanh
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who always shared transparent and resonating visions:   “A bell of mindfulness, whether it is an actual bell or some other sound, is a wonderful reminder to come back to ourselves, to come back to life, here in the present moment.“   “Within the sound of mindful breathing, compassion is holding the hand of anger, and they dance.“   ☯️      ...

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solaramps
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solaramps

Jan 21, 2022

solaramps test run ‼️it can be loud‼️ Lots of great rich drones and more. Works with mini solar panels and cv controllers This is for Dan and Jakob. Great people, and inspiring electronics wizards. @beauditude @bouq.et I can’t wait to bring this box in the full sun sometime soon.  ...

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HRM and Maple resonator
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  This is a room recording directly to the camera mics. So, we are missing the omnidirectionality and a bit of transparency in the air that would smooth the Maple’s shimmering resonance. Though there is no way to capture the sound as in presence. As always, depending on the sound, you might need some simple eq. and a subwoofer, to cover the 110 Hz...

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california box, fourses tarp, blippoo & krohn-hite filters
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Playing and learning with new and older instruments. This is for @inestancre @coryalder @jimblackmusic and for everyone who enjoy these raw experiments. Though, listen NOT at full volume, as at times dynamics and frequencies are wild. I’m having fun, and I hope some of you might as well… aesthetics seems unnecessary these days. I really like the Krohn-Hite filter, and I’m happy that the cleaning...

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gesti di luce
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gesti di luce

Jan 8, 2022

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   …and a droney/longer one here:    ...

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risonanze dei metalli
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risonanze dei metalli

Jan 6, 2022

benjolin with cymbal and wind gong resonator metal meditation recorded with zoom h4 (behind resonators) and the camera’s mics (from the back, side right)    ...

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TDU / FMix
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TDU / FMix

Dec 31, 2021

for spatialized ensemble and diffused electronics (2021) Music by Giorgio with FontanaMIX   Audio track of the final Coda by Chris Rolfe (2021) – Walter Zanetti, solo guitar Lavinia Guillari (flutes) – Marco Ignoti (clarinets) – Stefano Malferrari (piano and keys) Nicola Evangelisti (electronics and audio diffusion) Francesco La Licata (electronics) Franco Venturini (piano and keys) – Nunzio Dicorato (percussion) Walter Zanetti (guitars) – Alice...

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wind gong resonator
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wind gong resonator

Dec 28, 2021

…with HRM and KNAS in the room (sounds is only from wind gong – 2 mics, close/far) This is for Dan @beauditude, Bradshaw @ziobraccio, Adrian @guachiii & Nic @nicolasteichrob @lotncreative and for whoever loves resonances, clouds and rainbows.  ...

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getting to know the new box
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…dedicated to everyone who like me, feels great confusion in our “order” and great beauty in the sounds of electrons. Language is useless when meaning is only contour…         View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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GOW
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GOW

Sep 26, 2021

for Walter   I played this Washburn Eagle a lot in the early 90’s with my dearest friend and beautiful musician and guitarist Walter Zanetti. It has been long waiting in a corner in my room, and tonight it called me back…  I’m not a guitar player, as you can see…, but i love the energy and the sounds i can find with it....

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noise drone
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noise drone

Aug 25, 2021

esperimenti notturni with quantumdefrakulator, another touch circuit with sine/square/traingle waves and RAT distortion...

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transistor radios
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transistor radios

Aug 14, 2021

I finally repurposed a few old and broken transistor radios into some nice noise machines   01.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   02.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     03.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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buddha machines
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buddha machines

Jul 11, 2021

  Some dark and noisy drones with 2 circuitbent buddha machines. The orange one is one of the original Buddha Machine by by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian in Beijing, China in 2005. I rewired this one but I have another few that I din’t touch ; )    ...

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with Josh Martin (3 excerpts)
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We finally started our research and experiments with the interactive floor. After testing and experimenting for sometime with a variety of smaller settings, this is finally a prototype for a possibly larger floor and walls system that I look forward to developing with Josh Martin, and sharing it with everyone in the near future.    ...

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Vexing project
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Vexing project

May 17, 2021

VEXATIONS for Erik Satie’s Birthday on 17th May 2021 …another reading, celebrating Erik Satie’s 155th birthday   VEXATIONS for Erik Satie’s Birthday on 17th May 2020 This version of Vexations  was made reading a “translation” of my piano rendition as a midi file then read again into a MaxMSP pitch tracker patch that uses an emulation of the 1972 Eminent 310 string synthesizer Part of  the VEXING PROJECT  ...

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materialismo @ F[r]esta
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F[r]esta • festival de improvisação • May 15-16, 2021           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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field trips
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field trips

May 11, 2021

A distant collaboration with Vicky Mettler (aka Kee Avil) presented by Sawdust Collector and Barking Sphinx     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sawdust Collector (@heysawdustcollector)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sawdust Collector (@heysawdustcollector) ºººº Sawdust Collector and Barking Sphinx Performance Present ºººº   FieldTrips • May 2021 Weekly Releases, Tuesdays at 9:30 pm • May 4...

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ansia rumore sogno • for Chris
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  Noise is the alter ego, Ianus Bifrons. The philosopher’s stone: a golden stone is still a stone. This work is a short ode to things I hold dear in my life: our beautiful planet, friendship, love and imagination. Musical communication only exists on a purely emotional level. Emotionality is immanent; expression is definitely linked to the instant, instant is unpredictably transcendent. Dedicated to...

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testing reactive floor
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testing reactive floor

Mar 14, 2021

Testing a prototype floor/touch board, to use with dancers in a future project I’ll expand this to a 5’x8′ floor with at least 2 piezos to drive Max/MSP, and possibly run multichannel audio out in 8 wood resonators. It should be pretty fun and engaging both to use and watch/listen. …hopefully sometime in a not too distant future : ) …with the blippoo box...

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Leah and Alma’s scores
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Leah Abramson and her daughter Alma (age 2), sent me these two images after they attended a recent VNM/LABORATORIO Painting Music • One-Page Score workshop. I had fun working and sonifying these great graphic scores in these last few days. Thank you Leah and Alma!   Leah Abramson, Matrescence   Alma Abramson Huizing, Untitled  ...

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fbksines (SC MAX)
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fbksines (SC MAX)

Feb 27, 2021

A SuperCollider patch feeding a Max Msp Jitter patch via feedback and ring modulation with touchpad, high frequency sinewaves swirling around my...

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ping 303
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ping 303

Feb 16, 2021

Jamming on a great techno track by my dear friend Jamie Swann. Hope to jam live soon my friend! Thank you Meng Qi for the great “ping garden” SC patch! Listen to high volume, with good speakers and a sub, or good headphones!...

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crackling
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crackling

Feb 3, 2021

Looking for electric guitar players and electric bass players willing to have some fun with this one-page score I wrote years ago for Ron Samworth in a short 3 minutes interlude of a larger piece for the great Hard Rubber Orchestra. If I get a few versions it would be fun to create a remix of all the various takes. I hope someone out...

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spring board
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spring board

Jan 30, 2021

Here’s a new spring instrument built with a small sitka spruce board equipped with a variety of springs and a piezo underneath. Very fun to play. Now I have two spring instruments!! And I am looking forward to playing a nice spring duet with my friend Kedrick who is building his own spring instrument right now!   This is dedicated to my dearest friend...

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bells
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bells

Jan 7, 2021

exploring movement and sound with resonators …sonic alchemy transformimg wood into metal : )  ...

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Gulf Beach
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Gulf Beach

Jan 3, 2021

Roberts Creek • January 3, 2021 video recording Finnegan Magnanensi   ….I was just waiting for this beautiful day to go down Gulf Beach again and play with some stones....

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the philosophers’ stone is still a stone (for K & L)
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Here’s where I’m at the beginning of this year, engaging with the materiality of sonic systems, extending mind and body while practicing movements with the purpose of making music, …or simply producing sonic matter. Focusing on this kind of instruments as source of and inspiration for an embodied sonic activity has kept me away and free from any need of (self-) expression; and being...

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parallel 03
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parallel 03

Dec 3, 2020

Parallel 03: Endlings (Raven Chacon and John Dieterich) + collaborators https://www.parallel03.com/     Parallel 03 brings together a new collaboration between New Mexico-based musicians Raven Chacon and John Dieterich (known together as Endlings) and six Vancouver musicians and sound artists utilizing a variety of cross-platform and anonymous methods for composition and improvisation. Composed, recorded, and arranged over four months of isolation in 2020, the eight...

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Crow Stone Tone Poem
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Crow Stone Tone Poem

Nov 25, 2020

Crow Stone Tone Poem (2016-2020) by Julie Andreyev and a crow Interpreted and performed by Giorgio Magnanensi     And here’s a recent performance of the piece at Emily Carr University:   A collaboration with a free-living crow who lives in the territory that includes my home. This project is based on interspecies play using stones, initiated by the adult crow who gifted me a...

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13 attitudes
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13 attitudes

Nov 24, 2020

13 attitudes THINK LIKE A FOREST ACT LIKE A MEADOW     This publication was put together as part of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination’s 9th Experiment: C.R.A.S.H: A post capitalist A to Z. London June 2009. Design: Škart and Simona Staniscia Share, redistribute, recycle and...

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48:48
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48:48

Nov 22, 2020

…a time capsule found in an old hard drive a few days ago.   Kenton Loewen, drums Giorgio Magnanensi, electronics & video Recorded live in Vancouver • February 5, 2014  ...

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springbox klang
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springbox klang

Nov 14, 2020

  No speakers used in this set, just the springbox, sitka resonators, plate reverb, piezo, touch sensors and Max/MSP  ...

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ναυσίη
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ναυσίη

Nov 13, 2020

for Chris Rolfe   ναυσίη (nausiē), noise, bruit, rumore, geräusch… il rumore è l’alter ego, Ianus Bifrons la pietra filosofale: a golden stone is still a stone. ansia rumore sogno   *******   No speakers used in this set, only 2 sitka spruce resonators and a plate reverb with touch boards (plywood & douglas fir bark), blippoo box, Max/MSP and Bare Conductive sensors. Live recording –...

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Douglas Fir Touch-Bark
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Douglas Fir Touch-Bark

Oct 27, 2020

Here a few clips of my new Douglas Fir Touch-Board, equipped with a piezo to drive Max MSP Jitter and a Bare Conductive Touch Board with added metal sensors (last clip at 4′:05”). I’m having a lot of fun playing wih this bark!      ...

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AUDIOSFERA
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AUDIOSFERA

Oct 19, 2020

AUDIOSFERA AUDIOSPHERE Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-InternetCollective Exhibition Sound piece selected : Very Glitchy PatchMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía • Madrid, Spain14 October, 2020 – 11 January, 2021 /Sabatini Building, Floor 3 Curated by  Francisco LópezAUDIOSPHERE Sound Experimentation 1980-2020   AUTHORS: Francisco López, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Margie Borschke, Victor Nubla, Luis Alvarado, Guy Marc Hinant, Salomé Voegelin, Caleb Kelly, Paul...

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LOGS
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LOGS

Sep 23, 2020

…this is for David   Roberts Creek beach September 21, 2020 • a serendipitous collaboration Video: Finnegan Magnanensi Sound: David Murphy Editing, Mix and Animation: Giorgio Magnanensi    ...

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sitka clouds 1, 2 & 3 (…and plywood)
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3 short improvisations using touch on a sitka spruce cloud with piezo to trigger various kinds of audioprocessing in a max msp patch.     …and here below using a plywood board   …”dream machine” driven by plywood   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio...

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musique concrète
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musique concrète

Sep 11, 2020

playing a sitka spruce cloud equipped with a piezo and triggering various audio processes in a max msp patch.            ...

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WHERE DOES iT GOES
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WHERE DOES iT GOES

Sep 8, 2020

Elastic Stars released neu album ‘MUZiK’ on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. Recorded, Produced, & Mixed by-the-hand-of-the-band on Analog Tape at Elastic Stars Productions in Vancouver, CANADA, without the use or help of the almighty Computer, ‘MUZiK’ was sleekly designed to satellite the band’s favourite international playlists found exclusively on the World Wide Web. So sit back and enjoy the entirety of neu album ‘MUZiK’...

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At The Edge of Wildnerness
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September 4 – October 4, 2020 Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Soundwalk with Hildegard Westerkamp: Friday, September 4 at 2pm Skills for Solitude with Giorgio Magnanensi: Sunday, September 27 at 11am At the Edge of Wilderness is a Sound-Slide Installation about Ghosttowns in British Columbia. The installation explores a strange moment of excitement and magic, discovery and adventure, the moment when...

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Homage to Franco
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Homage to Franco

Aug 17, 2020

Franco Donatoni (Verona, June 9, 1927 • Milano, August 17, 2000)   ARGOT • two pieces for solo violin (1979) Silvia Mandolini, Violin Recorded in Bologna • August 16, 2020 • Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano   Video: Alma Napolitano & Marco Mangani My dear friend and fantastic violinist Silvia Mandolini sent me this recording today, to remember and honour Franco Donatoni in the...

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il tempo dei baleni (4F)
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Ten years ago I wrote this short piece as a little homage to a great man, musician and friend, Franco Donatoni. Today, almost 10 years later, I’m thinking about Franco again in the 20th anniversary of his passing. The piece was written for the mdi ensemble which performed at the Venice Biennale in September 2010 in a program dedicated to Franco who passed away twenty...

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of the now: Archipelago
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Excerpts from the livestream double artist talk, presented by of-the-now: Archipelago, June 20, 2020. Conversation recorded June 19, 2020, by Jeff Morton.   Erin Gee & Giorgio Magnanensi with Jeff Morton        ...

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60
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60

Aug 5, 2020

  Today is my 60th birthday, August 5, 2020     To celebrate I’m sharing this short paragraph which is the ending of Dino Buzzati’s first of his Sixty Stories: I sette Messageri (The Seven Messangers) and a couple of inspiring excerpts by David Dunn. […] Un’ansia inconsueta da qualche tempo si accende in me alla sera, e non è più rimpianto delle gioie...

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The Magical Forest
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The Magical Forest

Jul 30, 2020

for/with Marina Hasselberg, cello Thank you Marina! Thank you to John Korsrud and to The Hard Rubber Orchestra/An Earful of Vancouver for commissioning this video, and to Marina for her beautiful playing and the embracing of these resonances. This is Panel III from: TDU MH – il fuoco e l’artificio (2018) for cello, 16 Red Cedar and Pacific Maple resonators and live electronics https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/tdu-mh-2/...

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graindust XX
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graindust XX

Jul 12, 2020

Today’s project, July 12, 2020… a very very strange summer… and a bit of sparkly bits around a foggy mind…  ...

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ondas de sombra
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ondas de sombra

Jul 9, 2020

for Marina Hasselberg Maps and Shadows Is it possible to transform different representations of music to space, and vice versa? Is there a point where they collapse into each other? Sound like space is a place in which we are embedded, in which the sensory experience of reality and artistic form can finally converge. Space as a dimension of time implies movement, maps and presence. Sonorous spaces...

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Plate Reverb
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Plate Reverb

Jun 27, 2020

I finally got to use this Plate Reverb with some nice Blippoo’s sounds, live recorded in the room. Happy about the results and looking forward to playing live with it sometime, some day…    ...

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descrittore
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descrittore

Jun 19, 2020

A max msp patch tracking pitch/noise. I used it in various ways to create midi files that then are being fed into other instruments and so on… a feedback loop of recursive processes to forget traces and to find new paths, looking for musicality hidden everywhere.   ambient 1 https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/descrittore-14.mp4   Glenn Gould’s voice https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/descrittore-13.mp4   James Joyce’s voice https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/descrittore-12.mp4   voice in mellotron...

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risonanze
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risonanze

Jun 10, 2020

• ELECTRONICS: Blippoo Box – Wavetek Pulse/Function Generator – Stylophone Gen X-1 – Oscilloscope • WOOD, METAL & STONE RESONATORS – Stereo Red Cedar Board – Stereo Sabian Cymbal – Stereo Steel Drum – Slate/Piezo      ...

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miniatures on 5 drawings by Janice Wong
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Five of Janice Wong‘s drawings inspired these resonant electronic miniatures. I worked on these images using various readings to generate counterpoints of sinewaves and resonant textures that follow and embody the transparent and spacious structures of Janice’s work. The sound was captured live in the room with 4 microphones. No speakers have been used as my setup includes only metal and wood resonators. – May...

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SRCC
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SRCC

May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020 slate, radio board, cymbal resonator & cedar bark resonator (no speakers have been used in this set) (TDU SRCC)   Use headphones...

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8 frammenti senza memoria
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  For Marc Kate, April 28, 2020   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-1.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-2.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-3.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-4.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-5.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-6.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-7.mp4   https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/framm-8.mp4                  ...

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for Ian Ross
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for Ian Ross

Apr 17, 2020

    This is for Ian Ross (aka C130) who is not only a great and wonderful guy and friend, but also a fantastic audiovisualist    ...

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six miniatures for Kenton Loewen
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six miniatures for Kenton Loewen A tiny gift for a great and dearest friend in the day of his Birthday. With lots of love my friend. I hug you as strong as I always do. I miss you. (April 7, 2020)        ...

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failure and resistance
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failure and resistance

Mar 20, 2020

failure and resistance […] The only thing I deeply, avidly, wanted was a lucid, unillusioned eye. I finally found it in the art of the novel. This is why for me being a novelist was more than just working in one “literary genre” rather than another; it was an outlook, a wisdom, a position; a position that would rule out identification with any politics, any...

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Silvia Mandolini with MAGIK
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  This would have been such a wonderful evening. Alas, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, it never happened…   MARCH 28, 2020 at the ANNEX     Experience the beautiful sounds of this international collaboration between virtuosic Italian violinist Silvia Mandolini, and magik (Kenton Loewen, drums; Marina Hasselberg, cello; Giorgio Magnanensi, diffusion and live electronics). The evening will feature two world premieres: one...

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ITISYSM
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ITISYSM

Dec 24, 2019

I Think I Saw You See Me Cole Schmidt guitar, Gavin Youngash guitar, James Meger bass, Kenton Loewen drums, Giorgio Magnanensi electronics, strings synth and wood resonator         ITISYSM live at RED GATE Dec 14, 2019 (Thank you Lee!!)   Vancouver’s post-rock noise machine I Think I Saw You See Me blends reckless, rhythmic cycles and sculpted, melodic noise. Cole Schmidt guitar, Gavin...

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ITISYSM Bonus Track
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ITISYSM Bonus Track

Dec 17, 2019

Made with snippets of various improv in-between takes from our recording sessions at Afterlife Studio, …plus some rugged noisy videos and glitches. Cole Schmidt guitar, Gavin Youngash guitar, James Meger bass, Kenton Loewen drums, Giorgio Magnanensi electronics and wood resonator    ...

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After Life Studios short improv
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A short improv in between sets of ITISYSM’s recording on July 24, 2019 (Roland RS-202 Strings, Blippoo Box, Max Msp, Sitka Spruce stereo resonator)   G AFTERLIFE Short Improv(2) [Download]  ...

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