Audio + Video
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TouchDog
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percussivitá fotonica
🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁🥁💡🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁💡 🈚️ ‘Percussivity’ in its raw and elemental energy emerges as a physical, spatial and primal force: pure sound and dynamic texture, noise and tone. I always loved percussions, I love the raw and physical energy of skins, woods and metals. I love the immersive and immediate quality of all their sounds, existing beyond any musical constraints; and the physicality of the players that translates in immediate and intense sonic energy. This is why I have so many friends who play drums and percussions. I love their embodied musicality, the primal force of their resonating imagination. This is a small homage to all of them who always inspired me and found time to play with me. 〰️💡➰〰️💡〰️💡➰〰️〰️💡〰️➰💡➰ @kentonloewen @guachiii @bate.andrew @benbrownsounds@katiemrife @chacaldeltamborazo @johnmoeb@kkunikokato @danmcv @eliot.doyle @dylnoise @balot_ne@eliot.doyle @arthurdelahooke @kromaindrums@druizmusic @metamattmetamatt @jrdev_ @d_gaucher@tolink @kaibasanta #MartinFisk #BarryTaylor #JoePoole#BernieArai #DannyTones #RodNavarro #JonathanBernard#NanniCanale...
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Music is more than an object of study: it’s a way of perceiving the world; a tool of understanding… [it is] thus necessary to imagine radically new theoretical forms, in order to speak to new realities. Music, the organization of noise, is one such form. It reflects the manufacture of society; it constitutes the audible waveband of the vibrations and signs that make up society. (Jacques Attali)...
read moregiominz + Memory Place
live at RED GATE • November 7, 2024 Dan Kibke & Giorgio Magnanensi live video by Emma Tomic ...
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JMT Synth
for Tetsuji @ JMT Synth Tetsuji’s instruments are wonderful. Created with elegance and precision, they all sound incredible and full of character. They are definitely among my favourite at this time, and I greatly enjoy playing and discovering with them. More video with Tetsuji’s intruments HERE A YouTube Playlist for NDE-1 sounds and other JMT instruments is HERE with Nonexistent Instrument‘s Electromagnetic Coils sonic creatures with RGB LED ...
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noisescapes
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 noise garden 01 noise garden 02 騒 (noise garden 04) assemblage catastrophe theory (for Ken) bianco con mani ...
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read moregranular joy
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 ...
read moreblippoo & sitka spruce resonator
testing small Sitka Spruce resonator with blippoo box ...
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worming
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 Magnanensi (@giominz) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) ...
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☀️➿☀️〰️➿➿☀️☀️☀️➿〰️➿☀️➿〰️☀️〰️☀️ 🈚️ Thanks @_sunhaus @namefarminert & @krustpunkhippy for help and inspiration ☀️🙏☀️ ...
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duetto oscillografico
benjolin, solar panel, LEDs and Tektronix 564 dual channel oscilloscope ...
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Strega
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read moreesplorazioni del tatto e del respiro
…for Sara Gold View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...
read morequadrantid LED
Lots of fun with Quadrantid Swarm driven by CV via mini solar panels and...
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MIDI paths
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 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) ...
read morethe pearl
🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ ‘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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read moredrones and feedback
…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) 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🈚️🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 ...
read moreHikari Monos & Hikari Duos
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) 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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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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read moreonde oscure
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 the auditory world conflicts are sustained, not erased; diverse voices are not silenced but encouraged to thrive: harmonizing, amidst discord. In its resounding waves we come to view everything as equally important and equally unimportant, unveiling the magic beauty of the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. ...
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frottola cataclismatica (con legno e pietre)
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HRM with FSR box (and LDR Matrix)
…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) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) ...
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shadows of zeitgeist
…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 emergence of a truly new society. In the tumult of time, in the Manichaeism of a political debate stupidly trapped in a facile and sterile economism, opportunities to grasp an aspect of utopia, reality under construction, are too rare not to attempt to use this scanty clue to reconstruct that reality in its totality.” – Jacques Attali, Noise...
read morefyrall & FSR in twittering mode
Embracing chaos and the brilliance of emerging gestures and figures. ...
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cross talks
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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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 toward uncharted destinations. Guitar asymmetry occupies the foreground for much of the album, imparting both heaviness and a restless danceability, yet there’s also a sense of volatile nuance that’s ever-present, undoubtedly due to the immersion of its membership in an eclectic array of musics—especially of the improvised variety. The electronic abstraction of experimental music veteran Giorgio Magnanensi cements this impression, providing a destabilizing force with its psychedelic trickles and neon spirals. Superimposer‘s twelve-minute final cut exemplifies the band’s singular chemistry. First, insistent interlocking guitar figures prod at a molten texture, pushing it to the point of eruption. Then, after a moment of repose, the group converges upon what initially seems like a more relaxed coda, but gradually this unravels to bring forth a turbulent climax. Tellingly, the album’s widescreen ambitions are reflected in visual counterparts that were produced for its series of titular tracks. These include collaborations with Canadian video artists from across the country: Emma Tomic, Michaela Grill, and Hadis Fard. BAND: Giorgio Magnanensi: electronics; Kenton Loewen: drums James Meger: bass; Gavin Youngash: guitar ; Cole Schmidt: guitar CREDITS: Recorded by John Raham at Afterlife Studios Mixed by James Meger; Mastered by Jesse Zubot Album art by Julia Devorak TRACKLIST: SUPERIMPOSER 1 SUPERIMPOSER 2 SUPERIMPOSER 3 . SUPERIMPOSER 4 * * * * * * * Videos by Emma Tomic, Michaela Grill, and Hadis Fard....
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QS & MIDI
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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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
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 relative. Nell’invenzione, the chronology of figures and sounds states the sequential process of their emergence. When ‘the’ original sources disappear in the translucent realm of discontinuity, the real appearance of visual and sonic figures composes the similar and dissimilar, harmonizing oppositions in our mental space. We do not perceive the movements and procedures necessary to produce sense: these movements in fact do not become the work; these movements become projections. They fade out from the substance of forms; they persist in the uselessness of their transitorily immateriality. They exist as we manifest, loose, and embody ourselves. 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 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 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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…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 down intimacy… I believe that’s about the inability to talk about the things we wish we could tell but we can’t really express; things we “try to express”, “communicate”, or project in a sentimental way, when sentimentality doesn’t really represent the inexplicable and it’s just a faint illusory form of it, …a heroic failure. “Against the logic that sees musical instruments as a direct channel for our musical thoughts, seamless media that materialise our imagination, the critical analytics of musical instruments reveals them as epistemic objects with agency; as technologies that are not supposed to merely channel but to also to converse, resist, challenge, surprise, and reject their performer.” excerpt from: Thor Magnusson; Sonic Writing’ ...
read morefeedback and resonance
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“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 didn’t it would lack vitality. Life is a force to be used and if necessary used up. ‘Death is the virtue in us going to its destination’ (Lieh Tzu). ” from Towards an Ethic of Improvisation by Cornelius Cardew (1971)...
read moreHRM & FSR
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
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 and not as dead or inert. Thus Indians knew that stones were the perfect beings because they were self-contained entities that had resolved their social relationships and possessed great knowledge about how every other entity, and every species, should live. Stones had mobility but did not need to use it. Every other being had mobility and needed, in some specific manner, to use it in relationships. (Vine Deloria et al., 1999, p....
read moreBenjolin with FSR boxes, e altre frottole spaziali
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 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) pleludio, toccate e variazioni • nello stile bolognese and more…. 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 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) frottola fotonica ...
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…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 into abstract sonic soundscapes. This art is interactive, as the optional “playing” of the box can be a performing art, and hence the box becomes a musical instrument as well. To play a Blippoo Box means to anticipate what the box is doing and not vice versa, as the behavior can only be predicted in a broad sense. This forces the player to improvise.” “Chaos theory assumes that nature is ruled by endless chains of causes and effects. These chains form a multidimensional matrix where all the chains are interconnected while combining to form more complex chains on larger scales. It interests me from an artistic point of view that many natural processes are balanced systems that appear to have many possible stable states, in which the chains of cause and effect repeat themselves.” excerpts from Rob Hordijk, ‘The Blippoo Box: A Chaotic Electronic Music Instrument, Bent by Design’ * * * Gibber was a very nice gift Rob sent me last summer, after finally moving and and settling in Mallorca. As he knew about my love for early speech synths and my hacked Texas Instruments’ toys, he sent me the Gibber board, which I mounted on an empy Speak& Spell box and added a couple of pressure sensors to the circuit. Such a fun and very nice sound design, based on a 40-year old SPO256-AL2 speech chip. Gibber with Blippoo View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) At times I spend a lot of time with these beautiful instruments as I find their company very instructive in many ways. Still some people ask me about these “pieces”…, well they are not pieces, they are mainly fragments of an everyday sound practice, ‘musicking’ if you wish, and beyond Kant and his ‘contemplations’. Everything I do with sound and not, aspires to be speechless, without the urgency of communicating anything. If it expresses anything at all, that is pure character, essence more than intentionality. It manifests potential energy more than activity, relying on its own bare existence and ephemerality. The ephemerality and beauty of the creative spirit of some many wonderful people like Rob. The presence of his sounds will continue to resonate with us. Thank you for your beautiful instruments and sounds. RIP Rob Hordijk (1958-2022)...
read moreSeptember sound meditations
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 directions. The stream must flow without rest or intermission, since our senses are perpetually alert and everything is always liable to be seen or smelt or to provoke sensation by sound.” “With the solemn hush of night all around, we listen to sounds; we speak aloud without a word uttered. We have many other paradoxical experiences of the same kind, all of which seem bent on shaking our faith in the senses. But all to no purpose. Most of this illusion is due to the mental assumptions which we ourselves superimpose, so that things not perceived by the senses pass for perceptions. There is nothing harder than to separate the facts as revealed from the questionable interpretations promptly imposed on them by the mind.” excerpts from Lucretius, On the nature of the Universe “Spinoza’s ethics is the philosophy of the becoming-active, in parallel, of mind and body, from an origin in passion, in impingement, in so pure and productive a receptivity that it can only be conceived as a third state, an excluded middle, prior to the distinction between activity and passivity: affect. This “origin” is never left behind, but doubles one like a shadow that is always almost perceived, and cannot but be perceived, in effect.” “A political knowledge-practice that takes an inclusive, nonjudgmental approach to tending belonging-together in an intense, affectively engaged way is an ethics-as opposed to a morality. Political ecology is an amoral collective ethics. Ethics is a tending of coming-together, a caring for belonging as such.” excerpts from Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual this one is to welcome a new cycle with leaves in the wind… 🍂 🍃🌿 “Now that we have discovered the nature of the mind and of the vital spirit as a part of the man, drop this name harmony which was passed down to the musicians from the heights of Helicon – or else perhaps they fetched it themselves from some other source and applied it to the matter of their art, which had then no name of its own. Whatever it be, let them keep it.” “ […] sounds are disseminated in all directions because each one, after its initial splintering into a great many parts, gives. birth to others, just as a spark of fire often propagates itself by starting fires of its own. So places out of the direct path are often filled with voices, which surge round every obstacle, one sound being provoked by another. But visual films all continue in straight lines along their initial paths, so that no one can see over a wall, as he can hear voices from inside it. Even a voice, however, is blunted in its passage through barriers and reaches our ears blurred, so that we seem to hear a mere noise rather than words.” excerpts from Lucretius, On the nature of the Universe …and a very last one before getting back...
read morefyrall drones
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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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 in the wind. A babelian gibbering for the end of times. Touch & Tell, Speak & Math and Speak & Read with Elmyra and Gibber ...
read moreHoly Basil 62
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 not “the sound of the plant”. The plant just reveals a perceptual trace, an immanence; which at turns influences my perception of the relationship. A pure, tactile, materialistic apprehension of living forms. That apprehension might also apply to sentient ways of being we can’t even understand, or conceive, …minerals, oceans, mountains, clouds… fires. No more projections, but sonic embraces. g sound, …but not in G ...
read moreSoundgarden 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 unreplaceable. This little video is dedicated to Marcus Skinner (Sunhaus) and to my dear friend Nicolas Teichrob. I missed you both...
read moreambience 22
ricercare con mani … for our dreams and wonders … with lightness more ambience videos HERE ...
read moreminipolytopes
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) minipolytope 12 More minipolytopes HERE...
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meditazione sonora per un amico lontano
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 flowing out of the train. I tried to reach him but I could not. In those same days I also acquired these resonating singing bowls. ...
read moreamaranto di luce & other sonic explorations
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
attuning • detuning [CG] F# B E & A make peace, be peace View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi...
read morelamenti senza parole • failure and resistance
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 vortex of frustrations, I do not really wish to go back to another ’normal’. That normal is possibly one of the main causes of our own demise. So lamenting can be granted, but not just because of desperation. Sadness is not depression, sadness is revolt, a drastic shift, a touch, a wave… […] 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 religion, any ideology, any moral doctrine, any group; a considered, stubborn, furious non-identification, conceived not as evasion or passivity but as resistance, defiance, rebellion. I wound up having some odd conversations: “Are you a Communist, Mr. Kundera?” “No, I’m a novelist.” “Are you a dissident?” “No, I’m a novelist.” “Are you on the left or the right?” “Neither. I’m a novelist.” Since early youth, I have been in love with modern art—with its painting, its music, its poetry. But modern art was marked by its “lyrical spirit,” by its illusions of progress, its ideology of the double revolution, aesthetic and political, and little by little, I took a dislike to all that. […] – from Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera “…doing while thinking, thinking while doing,” said and lived Franco Donatoni. I can’t even speak or write decently in my mother language anymore, let alone think … but all in all I don’t mind or care anymore. Losing contact with forms and rhetoric to favor sound thinking, or a “sounding” thought, beyond any language, is what – willingly or unwillingly – seems to be my constant behavior. Reality also seems to demonstrate that despite everything, (… all the work, all the compositions, all the performances, activities, speeches, seminars, essays, books, parties and scores) I cannot verify any effect of my work in the reality of the world. Failure seems obvious. A torn planet and a desperate humanity do not seem to receive any beneficial influence from any aesthetic or philosophical position of/on “musical discourse”. Then non-identification: aware and tenacious, not as evasion or passivity but as resistance, seems to be – with Milan Kundera – not just a choice but the real necessity for...
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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 cheering, humans continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; they seem to not be able to understand how many times theatricality and deceit can meet – or better say, always meet… under periods of great weakness, deep unbalance and loss of “vision” ….in spite of sight. Reality is very foggy these days, even in the brighter Sun. Though Sun doesn’t really care, its living state is like the slow-motion decaying of a burst of energy. 1, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000………or… it is not going to make any difference, as we are likely just disturbances of control(led…) voltage, transmuted in easily digestible emotional content. Therefore we are noise, live in noise, produce noise, create with noise, defeat and disregard noise; because noise challenges us in many ways, and when we lost the ability to attend to sound, beyond the everlasting chattering of thinking: trying to understand what simply is and will always be, the spectrum of human nature. Does this justify violence? No, though it pushes tolerance to sensitive thresholds. Action seems nowadays not very easy when the theatre sells distilled fear, falsities, deceit and gradual dissipation of resistance. So yes, drones, and noise are just a feeding source of possibilities. The “dark sides”, the raw matter, a blood pumping machine. One where noise would perturb our security and the theatricality of self-expression. “Il teatro dei balocchi” would stop there, Pinocchio would never exist and humans would be happily continue to kill each other as usual. Is screaming about all this disturbing? If so, apologies, I’m actually totally at loss myself at times… But is it really the noise we hate so much, or rather real freedom, democracy, and all the beautiful rainbowed coloured values we scream about while things are just going slowly down the drain? Or, more appropriately – as I said elsewhere, while a lot of “noise” is coming up, …from the drain. Finally, to end the rant, thank you Aristotle, while my language is failing, my body is full of noise. noise • ianus bifron • sound ...
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with Solipsist and Touch Delay with Orthoptera, Incadescent Lightbulbs and Echo Delay ...
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stones again
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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…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 bursts of time/light, extremely bright lights of simple energy exchange. Imagine something like that, but multiplied exponentially to a very, very large quanta of energy; then, at that state, we would become an extremely bright star in a fraction of a nanosecond. Does anyone wish to tell that story again? ...
read morelampeggiatori incadescenti (installazioni domestiche)
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 statements, living in a perennial present without envisioning minds, incandescent flashers of energy are badly needed. Just look around, it might be more difficult to find them these days, though they need to shine brighter and brighter, as they can. …qui habet aures audiendi, audiat. • 💡 💥 😎 🤘 🖤 💡 • View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) *** luci incandescenti e creature sonore (domestic installation #6) this is for Tina @pearstina Thank you @_sunhaus for building these lovely Orthoptera and Caviidae. I look forward to more sunlight to bring them with me in the forest, I may also be able to get a lot of bugs and humans together around them : ) ...
read more4 metamorfosi del legno • omaggio a Thich Nhat Hanh
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 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. ...
read moreHRM and Maple resonator
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 and lower that you don’t want going to the Maple. Apart from that, it’s a shimmering resonator for the HRM. To listen to a few other sound samples on this resonator, check HERE ...
read morecalifornia box, fourses tarp, blippoo & krohn-hite filters
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 job worked well and the pots are now clean and smooth. It’s kind of a very spartan unit, with very nice and simple functions, so it’ll be fun to get to know and play it better with some time. There seem to be so many possible ways and combinations to experiment and work with. It would definitely benefit from spectrally rich sounds that would provide sculptural ideas for sonic movable shapes. If then we were to expand them in a full 360º audio field, then I will really need to stop playing and just bathing in sounds, for hours. …lucid dreaming… blah blah….blah…....
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz) …and a droney/longer one here: ...
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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
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 Caradente (harp) – Valentino Corvino (violin) Corrado Carnevali (viola) – Sebastiano Severi (cello) – Fabio Quaranta (double bass) Contemporary Landscape (Live) by FontanaMIXensemble feat. Giorgio Magnanensi Thank you to all the great friends and musicians of the FontanaMIX Ensemble! It was lovely working together in spite of the distance. XOX https://asimplelunch.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/fontanamixensemble/ And here is the TDU FMix Remix, which is a draft I previously made to guide me into the live mapping of the event, though the final result (as always) is a bit different and great! Thank youy again!! [Download] ...
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