Audio + Video
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tower of silence
2 songs from Roberto Musci‘s Tower of Silence, where (in the early 90’s) I played “liquid” electric guitar improvisations …another time capsule Voices Of The Ancient [Download] Kioko’s Deck [Download] ...
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Marina Hasselberg, cello Giorgio Magnanensi, piano/electronics Kenton Loewen, drums/percussion Silvia Mandolini, Violin ...
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EGKL + gik
for Kenton watch these 2 clips separately, but try also watching them together from the start made with CHDH EGREGORE SOURCE software Jacques Attali famously predicted this incipient era in music in 1977 in a classic text hybridising theory, culture, and government policy, Noise: A Political Economy of Music. After three phases of Ritual Sacrifice (Church music), Représentation (scores and stage performance), Répétition (recorded media), Attali forecasts a fourth phase called Composition, where music becomes process and recovers its ritual magic. chdh, with egregore, have composed a nonlinear, participative, networked instrument as a published release. By transmitting their source code, the music is distributed as a Baudrillardian model, ready to be rendered and re-composed by the beholder, finishing an unfinishable process, closing the loop between representation, repetition, composition, and ritual.! – Final paragraph of Open Models, by Atau Tanaka, September 2014 and here a nostal//gik clip made with a jitter patch I use with Kenton sometime : ) ...
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for SM
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk’s sake. The mobility agent, is a point, shifting its position forward […] accompanied by complementary forms. (Paul...
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pixelstorms
for David M YouTube compression reduced the quality of the original video but you can enjoy some pixel designs in the images below ...
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Star Systems • live @ China Cloud
Thank you Lee for the video! Star System playing the music of Sun Ra Recorded live at the China Cloud in Vancouver, Canada on March 14th, 2018. Featuring Colin Cowan (double bass, electronics, megaphone) | Daniel Gaucher (drums, electronics, arrangements) | Skye Brooks (percussion) | Tom Wherrett (electric guitar, electronics) Giorgio Magnanensi (piano, laptop) | Ted Crosby (saxophone, clarinet) | John Paton (saxophone) | Joshua Zubot (violin, electronics) | Lee Hutzulak (synthesizer) || Recorded, mixed, shot & edited by Lee Hutzulak....
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WCR Metro Vancouver video
A short video about WCR Installation and performances last March at UBC CIRS by Metro Vancouver ...
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TDU MH
TDU MH – il fuoco e l’artificio (2018) for cello, 16 cedar and maple flat panel resonators and live electronics WEST COAST RADIANS, March 10, 2018 TDU MH has been written with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and it is dedicated to Marina Hasselberg. This work is both a statement and a poetic exploration. The statement displays sound in its visceral immanence – il fuoco, the body, the voice. The poetic exploration wanders in multiple metaphors (l’artificio) and symbolic resonances of the Forest, La Selva. “From the family tree to the tree of knowledge, from the tree of life to the tree of memory, forests have provided an indispensible resource of symbolization in the cultural evolution of humankind, so much so that the rise of modern scientific thinking remains quite unthinkable apart from a prehistory in such metaphorical borrowings“* […] Starting from here and inspired by the intense quality of resonating wood instruments, I wandered in four imaginary and symbolic landscapes to think, observe and design spatial and sonic analogies to remind myself, and hopefully others as well, about the beauty of the trees, their symbolic powers and the power of imagination and Harmonia: a utopia worth living for and within. The piece is articulated in 4 seamless panels: La Selva Oscura • ansia/anxiety – Dark winds, vectors of speed La Selva Antica • rumore/noise – Swarming of voices, colors and games The Magical Forest • sogno/dream – Veils of expanding spaces and spectral resonance The Place of Correspondences • Harmonia – Doubling and pairing; mirrors and transparencies *) Roland Bechmann, Des arbres et des homes (258-63). Paris: Flammarion, 1984 ...
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eternal life
Homage to JB, for Kenton Eternal life is now on my trail Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games There’s a flaming red horizon that screams our names And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you? You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal, Angel Racist everyman, what have you done? Man, you’ve made a killer of your unborn son Oh crown my fear your king at the point of a gun All I want to do is love everyone And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you? You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal There’s no time for hatred, only questions What is love, where is happiness, what is life, where is peace? When will I find the strength to bring me release? Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said? Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead I’ve got a message for you and your twisted hell You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal Angel yeah Angel, unh, angel, unh...
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figments
TGK Tony Wilson • Electric Guitar Kenton Loewen • Drums Giorgio Magnanensi • Keys & Live Electronics TKG set 1 [Download] TKG set 2 [Download] Excerpt from the live performance...
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Coming soon! sound crystals / -H A new installation/project part of Leaning Out of Windows January 25- February 8, 2018 at the ECUAD new building. Thank you to RANDY LEE CUTLER + INGRID KOENIG for inviting me to be part of this exciting research project, and to Art Olin for his elucidations and fascinating work at TRIUMF ...
read moreHappy New Year!
dream machine • sound capsule Supercabin • Roberts Creek, Januray 1, 2016 Andrew Bate, drums • Chris Rolfe, electronics • Giorgio Magnanensi, rhodes & lectronics ...
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TDU / MH
some preliminary drafts/studies for a new piece for cello, cedar and maple resonators, sound objects and oscillographic videos for Marina Hasselberg. …more to come studio #1 studio #2 studio #3 studio #4 studio #5...
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ISCM – VNM String Orchestra, VEE
ISCM 2017 • Vancouver Thank you to all the wonderful musicians and to all the composers. ISCM 2017 • Program Linda Catlin Smith, Orient Point Serena Teatini, Mi Fa Jay Schwartz, Music for Orchestra III Kotoka Suzuki, In Praise of Shadows ...
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elektrosluch
I assembled a new great little elektrosluch by makercube, …and having fun : ) ...
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AVENTA Ensemble // Bill Linwood, Conductor Müge Büyükçelen, Violin • Mieka Michaux, Viola • Alasdair Money, cello • Darren Buhr, Double Bass • Mark Takeshi McGregor, Flute and Piccolo • AK Coope, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet • Darnell Linwood, French Horn • Corey Rae, Percussion • Roger Admiral, Piano ISCM 2017 • The Round House – Vancouver, November 8, 2017 ...
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ISCM RMX
Vancouver Electronic Ensemble ISCM RMX VEE – ISCM Remix (Performed by Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) [Download] ...
read moreShades of Scorpius v.2
Colin Cowan • Bass/FX Boxes Lee Hutzulak • Synthesizer/Sampler Kenton Loewen • Drums/Percussion Giorgio Magnanensi • Laptop/Piano Recorded live at THE LIDO • November 4, 2017 SOS | NGC:171104.2.2 by Shades of Scorpius ...
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oscillo-graphic score
deep purple an oscillo-graphic score and an excersise in media transference I will soon transcribe and orchestrate the 11 pages of this graphic score made of different frames extracted from the oscillographic video. Hopefully I will be able to perform both versions sometime soon : ) ...
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SPUN SPECTRA Nicolas’ Teichrob’s wonderful photos at the Gibson Public Art Gallery Spun Spectra is up and glowing at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. if rolling through the coast in October, go check out some trippy light and colours and sounds (via @giominz) of spider webs! It will expand your mind in terms of what is there that we can tune into when observant, aware and expanding our spatial and temporal scales of engagement. —///—-Opening reception is this Saturday. 2-4pm. ???????????? #spunspectra #sunshinecoast #arts #bcarts #gibsons #gpag #cedarhits #missionnaish #giorgiomagnanensi #soundsalso #photography #exhibit #audiovisualmindfeast #nattylightforlife! #backlit #fujitrans #gallery #gibsonspublicartgallery #untilOct29 A post shared by Nicolas Teichrob (@nicolasteichrob) on Oct 5, 2017 at 1:17pm PDT more spun spectra HERE ...
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RM&B live
Accordion Noir Vancouver, September 8, 2017 • St. James Anglican Church Raw Meat & Butterflies Doug Schmidt, Bandoneon • Giorgio Magnanensi, Electronics 01 a breeze bowing scraps of dreams 00:27–10:45 02 mynah 10:59–19:02 03 techno chants 19:30–26:30 04 when I get the shakes 26:44–35:23 05 variations on 2 notes of Astor Piazzolla 35:35–39:37 06 spinny 39:50–43:05...
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WEST COAST RADIANS @westcoastradians Wood Flat Audio Resonators Design a great logo by Max Magnanensi WOOFAP/S WOOd Flat Audio Panel System In the last couple of years I have been experimenting with and building various sets of yellow cedar and maple flat audio-panels to create both instruments and audio diffusors that might engage in a more embodied form of listening and sound thinking. The LINKS below give an idea of the various explorations and implementation of these sound sculptures, and in general about the nature and spirit of these sound objects/instruments/resonators and my personal impetus behind them. The cedar and maple flat audio-panels are built using large yellow cedar and maple boards reclaimed from discarded piles of wood in mill operations and drifting ocean logs on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. After being sliced and smoothly shaped, they are planed and sanded to thin them down to thickness ranging between 2/16”and 1/4” and finally mounted on a stabilizer wood stand. An amplifier drives the sound into an audio transducer applied to the rear of each panel, exciting the wood boards and transforming their surface into a distributed-mode loudspeaker (DML). In this way the audio is approaching an omnidirectional presence in the way the sound from the cedar and maple panels is dispersed evenly in all directions. The diffused radiation patterns of all frequencies created on the panels expands the audio source. Sound then propagates through the wood in the most liberated and natural way while becoming omnidirectional in the far field. The diffused sound is stunningly beautiful and softly filtered by the smooth quality of yellow cedar or the brighter resonating quality of maple, which adds to the uncanny character of their physical and sculptural presence. L I N K S In January 2018 I will present this project at ECUAD (details to come) In the Spring 2018 I will present an installation performance space at the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at UBC with 16 panels driven by a 16-channel system. Both an installation and a performance instrument, WOOFAP / S will be also made available to a variety of local sonic explorers. resonators at the SC ART Crawl resonators at the SC ART Crawl resonators at the SC ART Crawl cedar panels yellow cedar detail yellow cedar resonators at the SC ART Crawl maple resonators at the SC ART Crawl maple detail resonators at the SC ART Crawl resonators at the SC ART Crawl resonators at the SC ART Crawl resonators at the SC ART Crawl ...
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asabikeshiinh
dreamcatchers […] fascism doesn’t take root on the margins of society, but always emerges from within the existing status quo. […] Alain Badiou, Metapolitics … and it seems getting worse on a speedy pace: a fast and aggressive emergence of fascistic behaviours, role-modeled by a naked leader and his entourage. But also long engrained in our broken societies, too many around the world to be suddenly surprised of such larger malaise. What to say? It also seems that communities should be reacting with convinced and massive response, as the threat is not a tiny one and not limited by geopolitical borders. It’s not unthinkable that US might quickly roll toward open and established authoritarianism. The exercise of democracy then becomes now an imperative to sustain in every single moment, as bending to fascism will only lead to catastrophe. ...
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A very nice website The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library A.I. Experiments ...
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Little Wheel Spin and Spin
…a very beautiful song by Buffy Sainte-Marie The great Veda Hille with the Plastic Acid Orchestra from Buffy Remix ...
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3D variations on fluidity
This is for Scott Morgan (loscil) use 3D glasses (red & cyan) …working with an old Jitter patch I always...
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playing with Bupp!! by p i x e l m e c h a n i c s Franziska Schroeder, sax • Jules Rawlinson, laptop • Dara Etefaghi, visual ...
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lovely sines
This is for Nikki This old Max Msp Jitter patch is still one of my favorite instruments. Both visuals and sound are massaging my soul and brain reminding me how beautiful is letting go of your ego while bathing in the beauty of pure sonic vibrations without needing to express anything at all. Radicalizing: listening is attention, not apprehension; to listen is evidence of what happens as sound, not knowledge of what happens with sound. So: sound is the presence of an absolute, his annunciation is its own revelation, listening then certainly is not the act by which you come to a discursive apprehension, but the moment at which perception mediates and joins the multiplicity in the unity of formal knowledge. Listening is immediate experience in which knowledge coincides with the action: listening is ascesis. (Franco Donatoni)...
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opening a webpage in Safari I got this nice glitch: here it is after some pixel sorting: and here some more random reiterations: ...
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spun spectra video
some beutiful spun spectra moving images Spun Spectra is a short film based on the photo series by artist Nicolas Teichrob (spunspectra.com) which showcases the natural optical phenomena of the rainbow spectra created by sunlight passing through spider webs. Of form and function unknown, certainly distinct, similarly unique yet consistently variable, the spectra of webs have likely hit everyone’s eyes from afar but subconsciously pushed to the periphery of our observations. The fine details of colour wait for a participating observer to simply take a closer look and bring them to the forefront. To look and listen with a truly wide open perspective allows us to better understand the natural world around us, the billions of years behind us and resultantly have a more thorough understanding of the present as a function of the past and future. Further, these images invite us all to engage in the full range of spatial scales far beyond the average, from the micro to the macro and everything in-between. Beauty in nature surrounds us all. Cinematography by Nicolas Teichrob (spunspectra.com) Audio by Giorgio Magnanensi For inquires, please visit spunspectra.com and check other beautiful work by Dendrite Studios HERE ...
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il guadagnini
scultura sonora (maple) il Guadagnini [Download] August 2-20, 2017 • 50 Canadian Things • Sunshine Coast Art Council – Sechelt, BC This piece is dedicated to the memory of French Canadian violinist Jacques Israelievitch and it is inspired by “Violin”, one of the 50 short stories written by Jane Urquhart in her book A Number of Things. Maple is a wonderful and brightly resonating wood often utilized for its sonic and mechanical quality in precious violins of XVIII Century’s master luthiers such as Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. Similarly to a transfigured violin soundboard, the maple audio resonator of this piece diffuses a continuous soundscape composed using a short excerpt of the Gigue from the Partita no. 3 in E Major BWV 1006 by Johan Sebastian Bach as performed by Jacques Israelievitch on his Guadagnini violin. The transformed and manipulated sound waves and the maple resonator offer a sonic and iconic homage to the wonderful sounds we were gifted in time by a wonderful musician and his great violin. The silhouette design of the maple board was inspired by my son Max who drew it for me after we discussed some ideas. Violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ...
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Drone Day 2017 Tomorrow, Saturday, May 27 on Granville Island presented by Quiet City & Vancouver New Music https://twitter.com/panospria/status/865231749764141056= https://www.facebook.com/events/1301058563312372/ DRONE DAY • Flickr Page ...
read moreChambers Σflare rmx
Remix of (and video for) chambers (Michael Red & Gabriel Saloman). Based on stems from the original tracks appeared on debacle records sigma flare I & II Thank you Michael and Gabriel for sounds and inspiration. ...
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