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TouchDog

Jan 13, 2025

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percussivitá fotonica
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percussivitá fotonica

Dec 22, 2024

🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁🥁💡🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁💡 🈚️ ‘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...

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noizz for Anju
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noizz for Anju

Dec 8, 2024

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...

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JMT Synth
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JMT Synth

Nov 9, 2024

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...

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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   noise garden 01   noise garden 02   騒 (noise garden 04)   assemblage  ...

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radical chip(s)
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radical chip(s)

Jul 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

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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

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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

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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 (and LDR Matrix)
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…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
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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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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 altre 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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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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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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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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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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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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4 microludes for Bruno
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4 microludes for Bruno

Nov 28, 2019

These little snippets of harpsichord sounds were inspired by discussion with Bruno Cavalca while around a beautiful Craig Tomlinson’s Harpsichord in our class at VCC.  ...

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Dungeon Master
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Dungeon Master

Nov 3, 2019

Dungeon Master, recorded live at 8EAST, November 1, 2019 Dungeon Master by Shades of Scorpius JP Carter, Trumpet + FX • Lee Hutzulak, Synthesizers & Sampler Kenton Loewen, Drums & Percussion • Giorgio Magnanensi, Laptop & Piano        ...

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quiet city set
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quiet city set

Oct 8, 2019

Thank you Constantine!! And QUIET CITY And thank youy Jaewoo Lee for the great room recording Quiet City g [Download] four red cedar resonators, blippoo, dod delay and oscilloscope    ...

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tower of silence
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tower of silence

Jan 27, 2019

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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magik
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magik

Dec 28, 2018

Marina Hasselberg, cello Giorgio Magnanensi, piano/electronics Kenton Loewen, drums/percussion Silvia Mandolini, Violin  ...

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eternal life
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eternal life

Apr 5, 2018

  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...

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figments
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figments

Feb 5, 2018

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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LOoW exhibition
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LOoW exhibition

Jan 8, 2018

  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        ...

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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!

Jan 1, 2018

dream machine • sound capsule Supercabin • Roberts Creek, Januray 1, 2016 Andrew Bate, drums • Chris Rolfe, electronics • Giorgio Magnanensi, rhodes & lectronics      ...

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ISCM RMX
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ISCM RMX

Nov 18, 2017

  Vancouver Electronic Ensemble ISCM RMX   VEE – ISCM Remix (Performed by Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) [Download]      ...

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Shades of Scorpius v.2
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Shades of Scorpius v.2

Oct 31, 2017

  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
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oscillo-graphic score

Oct 9, 2017

  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 : )       Here’s a reading by Alice Caradente, Harp...

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spun spectra at GPAG
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spun spectra at GPAG

Oct 5, 2017

  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...

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RM&B live
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RM&B live

Sep 23, 2017

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
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West Coast Radians

Sep 14, 2017

WEST COAST RADIANS @westcoastradians     WEST COAST RADIANS Info.pdf a great logo by Max Magnanensi     For a few years I have been experimenting with and building various sets of yellow cedar, red cedar, sitka spruce 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...

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bupp!! beats
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bupp!! beats

Aug 6, 2017

  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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spun spectra video
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spun spectra video

Jun 20, 2017

  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...

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il guadagnini
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il guadagnini

May 29, 2017

  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...

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game of drones
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game of drones

May 26, 2017

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        ...

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sound crystals / -H
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sound crystals / -H

Apr 14, 2017

  I have been working on this new installation/project as part of Leaning Out of Windows and finally I finished all the maple resonators and finalized the audio material. It will be presented January 25- February 8,  2018 at the ECUAD new building. Leaning Out of Windows (LOoW) is a four-year SSHRCC funded interdisciplinary art and science project, involving four phases between 2016 to 2020. It involves co-designing, curating,...

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little wheel spin and spin
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from Buffy Remix Veda Hille, CBC Radio Orchestra, Alain Trudel Conductor little wheel [Download] Sometimes special songs seem to give a strong voice to the spirit of our time. This project and its making was also special in the way it manifested itself. Maybe it’s just about beauty, something we only acknowledge as an exception and not as an option. “We are helpless, we are part of,...

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six sound objects (vid)
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  six sound objects SCORE   for the Plastic Acid Orchestra with the Lions Gate Youth Orchestra, and François Houle, clarinet & electronics video by Angela Stearns     This piece is an homage to live sound making, the energy and power of imagination and the sheer beauty of sharing sound and sound-thinking together with a large group of young, passionate and committed musicians. The nature of this...

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Shades of Scorpius
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Shades of Scorpius

Dec 23, 2016

Rough mix, recorded live at The Lido, Vancouver • November 16, 2016   Giorgio Magnanensi: upright piano / laptop | Kenton Loewen: drums | J.P. Carter: trumpet & electronics | Lee Hutzulak: DSI Tempest / recording / mix / artwork   Click images below for bandcamp links   Frequent Seizure   After Later   Space Heather Thank you Lee for the recordings and the...

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little wheels spin and spin
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  A beutiful song  by Buffy Sainte Marie for the end of this year. Veda Hille, voice and piano CBC Radio Orchestra conducted by Alan Trudel Giorgio Magnanensi, orchestration Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver • April 15, 2017   little-wheel-spin-and-spin [Download]        ...

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Incessant Spring
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Incessant Spring

Dec 7, 2015

a project with Kedrick James selected for the virtual gallery exhibit at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay 2015-2016 Featured Artist Researchers The Featured Artist Researchers are selected by the jurors from open submissions. These researchers represent innovative arts integrated research from around the world.  Kedrick James & Giorgio Magnanensi ​ Series Title: Incessant Spring Medium: Transformed video data and stills University of British Columbia, Vancouver New Music, Laboratio...

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big joy
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big joy

Nov 25, 2015

Playing a set at Big Joy • Remington Gallery • Saturday, December 5th with 4 cedar flat audio panels Big Joy is a music festival that in it’s third year will be showcasing current experimental acts from Vancouver and abroad. Hoping to present a broad spectrum of what Vancouver’s eclectic music scene has to offer, Big Joy encompasses everything from drone and harsh noise, through...

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The Story of Cedar
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The Story of Cedar

Sep 29, 2015

  ART and the six senses of Cedar Curated Art Exhibition OCTOBER 16-25 SEASIDE CENTRE, 5790 TEREDO ST. SECHELT This experiential art exhibition will feature ‘multi-dimensional’ visual and sensory perceptions of how a select group of coast-based artists interpret the subject of CEDAR. Influenced by different cultural backgrounds and the senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, and spirit, visual artists, sculptors, fibre-artists, writers, musicians, and...

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ambience
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ambience

Sep 20, 2015

an Ambient Sound Event  with: Elisa Ferrari • voice, books, zither and singing bowls Andrew Bate & John Brennan • resonant percussions Giorgio Magnanensi • sinewaves and cedar flat audiopanels The Gumboot Cafe, Roberts Creek – October 10, 2015 • 8PM   Some info about and images of the Cedar Flat Audiopanels: CEDAR PANELS...

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soundgarden
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soundgarden

Jun 14, 2015

soundgarden, an audio visual installation by Giorgio Magnanensi and Nicolas Teichrob along the lower reaches of Malcolm Creek, in Roberts Creek. An interactive performance environment using multiple video projections, live interactive video and live electronics.   soundgarden, an audio visual interactive installation I’m doing in late June/early July with Giorgio Magnanensi (a sound wizard). !#teaser #sunshinecoastbc #robertscreek #nature #bcac A video posted by NicolasTeichrobPhoto...

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tdu blinx
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tdu blinx

May 16, 2015

  reading each page of the score of TDU VI as raw data after converting each page in blinx image file format   tdu blinx...

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Giorgio & Hayato
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Giorgio & Hayato

Mar 22, 2015

  Live recording at DESTROY VANCOUVER XI • November 21, 2014 @ VIVO   Hayato Kubo, Drums   Giorgio Magnanensi, Electronics   G&H MIX [Download] https://vimeo.com/126959182        ...

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pao • halloween
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pao • halloween

Nov 25, 2014

  written for and played with the PAO, a great ensemble of great people. October 31, 2014 • Performance Works   PAO HALLOWEEN [Download]   page 9-12 @ 02:54 of the audio file          ...

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GRADIENT 2
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GRADIENT 2

Oct 3, 2014

  Tomorrow VEE performs Homage to David Dunn at the VCC Atrium   Here is an excerpt of a sonification of Gradient 2: GRADIENTS 1 GRADIENTS 2 GRADIENTS 3 for computer generated sounds David Dunn 1999   Gradients 1,2,and 3 are a set of pieces for computer generated sounds all based upon a common structural transformation of three different graphic images. The lefthand images were...

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Spun Spectra
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Spun Spectra

Sep 28, 2014

  Sonification experiments of a few beautiful images from the Spun Spectra series by Nicolas Teichrob   In these preliminary examples I utilized a system based on a process of spectogram imaging that utilize the images of the complex light spectra of spider webs captured by Nicholas Teichrob, as sonograms. Using Max Msp Jitter, the images are scanned mapping the parameters of frequency and amplitude over...

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riw
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riw

Aug 1, 2014

  Random Input Waves for a hot summer night Made with rewired electronics, max/msp and other noisemakers. Remix ad libitum   improglitch [Download]   riw 3 [Download]   riw 4 [Download]      ...

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both hands
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both hands

Jul 28, 2014

  An arrangement of Both Hands by Ani DiFranco for the Queer Songbook Orchestra, performed live in Toronto last March.     Both Hands [Download]     Sienna Dahlen: ­ Vocals Jennifer Burford: ­ Violin Evan Lamberton: ­ Cello Lief Mosbaugh: ­ Oboe Micajah Sturgess: ­ French Horn Shaun Brodie: ­ Trumpet Thom Gill: ­ Guitar Bram Gielen: ­ Piano Dan Fortin: ­ Double Bass...

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in ludere • il suono viola
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  Thank you Plastic Acid Orchestra for sharing great power in forming highly charging sonic energy.  The more, the better.      Thank you Rod Matheson for the video     and here a slowed-down snippet of concentrated sonic energy (for Chris)      ...

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poligames I II III
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poligames I II III

Jul 9, 2014

  Antonio Politano recorders, Giorgio Magnensi electronics Milano 1992   Poligames I [Download] Poligames II [Download] Poligames III [Download]      ...

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nanoloop
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nanoloop

Jul 9, 2014

nanoloop 2 for Game Boy Advance is a sequencer and software synthesizer. Filtered waves, filtered noise and simple FM are produced in software and played through the 8-bit audio output.    nano 01 [Download]     more info...

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ligature
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ligature

Jul 8, 2014

some electronics from 2001 (check also THIS video)     1 ligature [Download] 2 ligature [Download] 3 ligature [Download] 4 ligature [Download] 5 ligature [Download] 6 ligature [Download] 7 ligature [Download] 8 ligature [Download]    ...

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noise in the key of D • live
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noise in the key of D  •  live recording   NOISE IN THE KEY OF D MIX [Download]   Thank you Dave Leith and Andrew Scott for the live recordings. And thank you Matt O’Donnell for the wonderful Sitar playing and all VEE for the great drony 2 hours and 14 minutes at the grand space of the VCC Atrium. The recording though is very...

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random sounds
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random sounds

Apr 21, 2014

listen to RANDOM SAMPLES from the freesound.org archive playing all the samples simultaneously on a Remix Groups page: remixgroup freesound...

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The Nautical Almanac • Part 2
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Martin Bartlett’s The Nautical Almanac • Part 2 presented in a version for live electronics and video. The original scored materials suggests phasing patterns super imposed on freely combining one-measure cells in a recursive form implying a combination of both score-following and free improvisation on the given materials. The video matrix has been used to drive a randomized reading of the audio buffer which contains...

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VEE • drone in D
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VEE • drone in D

Jan 1, 2013

Matt O’Donnell invited VEE to play along his sitar on a long drone in D. Beautiful. Thank you Matt! VCC Atrium, December 2, 2012        ...

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ghost panel
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ghost panel

Dec 8, 2012

a new ghost (and final) panel (here Walter Zanetti on el.guit.) for an unwritten movement of a piece for orchestra and 2 guitars – and possibly Veda too 🙂 – I’ve been working at for some time. The piece is a long journey in orchestral and guitar sounds and possibly more. A piece to be performed in a large space surrounded by people moving or not, with large projections on whatever surrounding...

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vcc nme & kenton loewen
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a great session with Kenton Lowen, drums/VCC New Music Ensemble, Giorgio Magnanensi conduction. vcc nme with kenton X-3-012 [Download]   In the short vieo clip the very end of the session with Kenton Loewen and the VCC New Music Ensemble. This very well exemplifies the power of “forming” energy: sound shots, concentrated infusion of charging sonic energy, that’s why I love Kenton too ; )...

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candela
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candela

Jun 15, 2012

  some sounds on/with a poem by Ron Sakolsky, Candela also, remix this file with the one below, or as you like:   mp3 [Download]   [Download]...

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blue sines for Red Shift
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Here is an audio draft (3 minutes out of 10, score is coming…) of a first panel of a new piece for Red Shift to be performed on December 4, 2012 at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre. Dedicated to Jordan Nobles. The instrumentation is flute (also alto), clarinet (also bass cl), French horn, vibraphone, metals, viola, cello, double bass, live mix and live video. An...

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kozmik set
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kozmik set

Jun 11, 2012

a nice set remix from Kozmik Zoo with Andrew Brooks • sax, François Houle • clarinet & electronics, Kenton Loewen • drums, Giorgio Magnanensi • piano & electronics, Karlis Silins • double bass mp3  [Download]...

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SQ 4
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SQ 4

Jun 7, 2012

string quartet IV (…a draft) growing – not development juxtaposition – mutation not evolution stasis – in a continuous time vibration – timbric/chromatic mobility in an immovable space SQ 4 [Download]   listen with video-feedback/b...

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perle • panel I
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perle • panel I

Jun 6, 2012

I’m working on some new choreographic ideas exploring sound, noise, body, movement and space. Still a theatre for the ear where theatricality is released to many possible perceptions and interpretations. Some interesting readings on theatricality here Also watch panel II and panel III and listen to a raw mix here: glitchy long for destroy van [Download]...

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Bologna
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Bologna

Apr 26, 2012

met Marco tonight, in Bologna. Marco: ansia, rumore, sogno mp3 [Download] All what we did together was only about this simple triad. Not any mystical, sacre or spiritual one, not any sentimental enflation of ego or bloody hearts. Reading this again. Substitute novel with sound, noise, musics…minz&maunz...

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TDU CIRS
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TDU CIRS

Mar 21, 2012

TDU CIRS tducirs [Download] Vancouver Electronic Ensemble (VEE): Ross Birdwise, Frederick Brummer, Daryn Cassie, Kaj David, Justin Devries, Scott Gubbels, Janine Island, Dan Karrasch, David Leith, Thomas Speakman, prOphecy Sun Llowyn Ball (Violin), John Kastelic (Viola), Doug Gorkoff (Cello), Dave Chokroun (Double Bass) Chris Rolfe (live electronics), Giorgio Magnanensi (Conduction)   • Could the performance setting become more dialectic? • What does interaction mean for performers and...

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subcodes
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subcodes

Feb 9, 2012

great music with great people @ the KozmiK Zo Andrew Brooks • sax, François Houle • clarinet & electronics, Kenton Loewen • drums, Giorgio Magnanensi • piano & electronics, Karlis Silins • double bass  subcodes poster   set 1: mp3 [Download]     set 2: mp3 [Download]  ...

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one page scores
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one page scores

Feb 5, 2012

Another great VEE’s performance at the Canadian New Music Network Forum, January 20, 2012. Stereo mix of front and rear recording:   mp3 [Download]   See the seven one page scores below. Scores – in performance order – by: Frederick Brummer, Jordan Nobles, Remy Siu, Lee Pui Ming, Dave Leith, Janine Island, Eric Normand, Stefan Smulovitz (Mad Scientist Machine) VEE: Scott Aitken, Ross Birdwise, Frederick...

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treatise
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treatise

Sep 25, 2011

live electronics remix on the VNM Community Ensemble performance of Conelius Cardew’s Treatise trteatiseremix [Download]   see also this page   More about Treatise: • A Young persons Guide to Treatise • Cornelius Cardew – A Life Unfinished by John Tilbury, Copula, 2008 • Roberts Kirkpatrick’s report on Treatise workshop with John Tilbury at VNM • Seattle Improv Meeting recording archive containing many recordings of Treatise...

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Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
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   by Cornelius Cardew   Listen, watch and read here about the performance of Treatise by Cornelius Cardew • Vancouver, January 27, 2006 • VNM Community Ensemble led by John Tilbury. Thank you to Robert j Kirkpatrick for his passion and great documentation of this and many great events. se also this page   STATEMENT by John Tilbury (March 2003) Yes, I am talking about...

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il suono indaco/panel III
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Steve Wright guitar mp3 [Download] Veda Hille piano & voice mp3 [Download] Walter Zanetti guitar mp3 [Download]   looking forward to palying with all (…and panel I & II ; ). Meanwhile I’m enjoying remixing again…      ...

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il suono indaco
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il suono indaco

Jun 20, 2011

coda (panel III) draft of the 3rd and last panel (a sort of suspended coda) panel III (with electronics) [Download]  ...

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Mouvement
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Mouvement

Jun 19, 2011

(- vor der Erstarrung) a beautiful ensemble work by Helmut Lachenmann I conducted a few years ago with a wonderful group of Vancouver musicians. mp3 [Download]...

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taikotroniks live
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taikotroniks live

May 7, 2011

taikotroniks is a sonic exploration/collaboration between members of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble (VEE) and members of Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, LOUD, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi Taiko and Uzume Taiko. See the score map and set up in the image gallery below. Light cues via the Mad Scientist Machine by Stefan Smulovitz, articulated the spatialized performance of the piece. Taikotroniks Centre Stage: VEE Centre Stage Taikotronics 2...

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fbkscope
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fbkscope

Apr 29, 2011

a feedback patch …to stress the mic input on my laptop… like with this one I used the oscilloscope from a nice patch by Katsuhiro Chiba, but running the audio of the feedbacks in my old Tektronix is certainly more exciting ; )   download the Max patch :  ...

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carr rmx
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carr rmx

Apr 15, 2011

for Veda Hille I’ve been working on a few songs by Veda Hille. It’s always a great pleasure working on her beautiful songs. I’m going to present these new orchestrations on October 11, 2011 with the Vicoria Symphony Orchestra (…and Veda!). The audiofiles below are drafts of the new orchestrations from Veda’s recording Here is a Picture (1998), a very nice song cycle about and inspired by the...

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vee @ vcc
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vee @ vcc

Feb 1, 2011

Another great noisescape  Vancouver Electronic Ensemble performing Language Noises 2 @ the Vancouver Community College Atrium, Broadway Campus • January 29, 2011 Parameters of sound expression are designated as discrete languages, used to structure improvisational spaces. … Segregated pods of electronics communicate over large distances through the interior of this four-story building, creating a surround environment. The physical attributes of the spacious atrium help...

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visna mahedi
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visna mahedi

Jan 1, 2011

unintentional beauty   Recorded in Milano, 1997 Originally performed as a live soundtrack to Paul Wegener’s silent movie Der Golem (Germany, 1920)     1-unintentional-beauty [Download] 2-the-rose [Download] 3-majong [Download] 4-shopping [Download] 5-kiokos-deck [Download] 6-cardio-tone [Download] 7-voices-of-the-ancient [Download] 8-arche [Download] 9-silent-words [Download] 10-lovers [Download]          ...

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il suono indaco
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il suono indaco

Dec 25, 2010

pannello #2 a new orchestral piece I’m working right now. It’s actually a concerto for 2 guitars and chamber orchestra for Walter Zanetti and Steve Wright, two great gutarists, friends and musicians I love very much. In this piece there is also a lot of Chris Rolfe’s spatial and granular spirit and inspiration 😉 don’t listen with headphones and use a sub in the mix. mp3 ...

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Under the Skin
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Under the Skin

Dec 6, 2010

Under the Skin (excerpt) wen wei dance & beijing modern dance company (canada / china) underthe [Download]   Under the Skin is a new full-length collaborative work from Wen Wei Dance and the Beijing Modern Dance Company. A dual investigation into the common ground shared by performers from Canada and China, Under the Skin is a challenging work that examines ideas of cultural and...

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gw ’96
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gw ’96

Nov 28, 2010

an old recording • 1996 Walter Zanetti & Giorgio Magnanensi electric guitars mp3 [Download] I found this old recording (an earlier version of the final track of m&m 01) which at that time I remixed using the podx system in Vancouver in February 1997. It brings back lots of memories and sounds....

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Cod’ine • from YSM
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Cod’ine • from YSM

Nov 24, 2010

Cod’ine by Buffy Sainte-Marie cod’ine [Download]     Young Saint Marie Two musical icons from Western Canada: Neil Young, the reed-throated folk-rocker whose wayward spark has magnetized generations of listeners and fellow creators; and Buffy Sainte-Marie, the artist-activist with the raw vibrato who played a key role in reintroducing an aboriginal voice to North American pop culture, from chart to protest march to Sesame...

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self-gen 01
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self-gen 01

Sep 27, 2010

self-gen rmx 01 testing live electronics remixes with a couple of self-generative noise patches in preparation of an audiovisual performance with Joost Rekveld at the VNM Festival, October 21-23, 2010 mp3 [Download]  ...

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neil rmx live
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neil rmx live

Sep 18, 2010

neil remix live Vancouver East Cultural Centre, December 11, 2009 mp3  [Download] Check also the video of transformer man ; ) Veda Hille piano, voice Becky Whitling violin Peggy Lee cello Mark McGregor flute A.K. Coope clarinet & bass clarinet Nick Anderson French horn Shaun Brodie trumpet Jeremy Berkman trombone Ford Pier & Steve Wright guitars Martin Walton bass Skye Brooks & Barry Mirochnick...

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buffy rmx live
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buffy rmx live

Sep 17, 2010

buffy rmx live Vancouver East Cultural Centre, December 11, 2009 mp3  [Download]   check also this video 1. Summer Boy 2. Cod’ine 3. Now That the Buffalo’s Gone 4. Cripple Creek 5. Winter Boy 6. Little Wheel Spin and Spin   Veda Hille piano, voice Becky Whitling violin Peggy Lee cello Mark McGregor flute A.K. Coope clarinet & bass clarinet Nick Anderson French horn...

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stegiolast
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stegiolast

Aug 17, 2010

with Stefan Udell guitar and stones, Giorgio Magnanensi live mix & live electronics Roberts Creek, September 2006 mp3...

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stegio 03
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stegio 03

Aug 17, 2010

with Stefan Udell guitar and stones, Giorgio Magnanensi live mix & live electronics Roberts Creek, September 2006 mp3 [Download]  ...

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stegio 02
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stegio 02

Aug 17, 2010

with Stefan Udell guitar and stones, Giorgio Magnanensi live mix & live electronics Roberts Creek, September 2006     mp3...

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stegio 01
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stegio 01

Aug 17, 2010

with Stefan Udell guitar and stones, Giorgio Magnanensi live mix & live electronics Roberts Creek, September 2006   mp3...

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Fake Jazz Noise
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Fake Jazz Noise

Aug 4, 2010

Noise not Noise Western Front, March 27, 2010 Kedrick James voice & electronics, Chad MacQuarrie electric guitar, Giorgio Magnanensi fyrall & live electronics mp3 [Download]   [INSPIRATION 1] “European music is based on the artificial sound of the note and the (tone) scale; it opposes the brutal and objective sonority of the world. As a result of an unbreakable convention European music is obliged from the...

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sound space B
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sound space B

Aug 3, 2010

Kuniko Kato percussion with Andrew Bate and Barry Taylor drums, Giorgio Magnanensi rhodes and live electronics Roberts Creek Hall • April 17, 2010 mp3 [Download] sound space poster      ...

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sound space A
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sound space A

Aug 3, 2010

Kuniko Kato percussion with Andrew Bate and Barry Taylor drums, Giorgio Magnanensi rhodes and live electronics Roberts Creek Hall • April 17, 2010 mp3 [Download] sound space poster  ...

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late style…
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late style…

Jul 31, 2010

…like thinking late years the “style” of late years: mine, yours, of a decadent society, of amneriKa as Zappa would say. Thinking “experimental” as a state of mind rather than as a”style” as my friend Marc Couroux put it. Yes Marc, I’m with you. What does it mean though? How does it play out? The world will be unreconciled, like in the late years...

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Castello di Bazzano 1998
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audiopolaroid Castello di Bazzano, May 1998 Massimo Mariani electric guitar, Walter Zanetti electric guitar, Marco Ruggeri voice, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics   bazzano [Download]        ...

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ligature
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ligature

Jul 31, 2010

DAT IO feedback with DOD digital delay listen to high volume on a quad system and subs …circa 2003 part of a show with the HRO at the Cultch...

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al fresco
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al fresco

Jul 14, 2010

an ensemble of composers performing together for the first and last time al fresco • primo incontro, ultimo incontro Takashi Niigaki piano, Takuro Shibayama violin, Yasuharu Fukushima cello, Sunao Isaji voice, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics   Tokyo College of Music • Tokyo, May 25, 1998 mp3...

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p:ano
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p:ano

Jul 13, 2010

L.D. is a song from the album The Den (2004) A string arrangement for the band p:ano (Nick Krgovich, Larissa Loyva, Justin Kellam, Chris Harris) with Mark Ferris violin, Sheila McDonald violin, Henry Lee viola, Peggy Lee cello, Torsten Müller double bass.   mp3...

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photomorphine
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photomorphine

Jul 8, 2010

live electronicsusing a very nice Max/Msp patch by Chris Rolfe: maxmorphine   mp3 [Download]                  ...

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glocken
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glocken

Jul 8, 2010

granular for Chris Rolfe mp3 [Download]   granular synthesis of church bell sounds from a very nice collection pressed in Germany in the ’60s by Telefunken. A great soundscape record!!   …a gift to Chris for his birthday while in Germany! XOXO g...

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walgionanni
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walgionanni

Jul 8, 2010

Walter Zanetti guitar, Nanni Canale percussion, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics Capannole, May 1994 walgionanni...

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Yagi-san calligraphy class
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Yagi-san calligraphy class   The music in the video contains samples of koto played by Miki Maruta, Andrew Czink’s crazy piano and G’s live electronics. ******* While in Japan, in May 1998, I was invited to a callygraphy class held in the beautiful city of Kamakura by master callygrapher Yagi Chikushu, mother of my friend Takako Yagi.     It was a great afternoon,...

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minz & maunz
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minz & maunz

Jun 10, 2010

minz & maunz mp3  [Download]   Giorgio Magnanensi • sampler, electric guitar & live electronics Marco Ruggeri • voice and paranoid vocals Walter Zanetti • acoustic, electric and spanish guitar all tracks recorded live at the Castello di Capannole (Tuscany) and at the Abbazia Santa Maria di Agnano (X century) from 26:00 to 39:00… between May and October 1996   All instruments by minz...

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fades
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fades

Jun 10, 2010

Walter Zanetti guitar, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics 1997/1998 • Bologna/Vancouver   mp3...

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miki
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miki

Jun 10, 2010

Miki Maruta koto, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics Tokyo, March 1998 mp3 [Download]          ...

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maps and shadows
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maps and shadows

Jun 6, 2010

…a beautiful color… ansia, rumore, sogno anxiety, noise, dream Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, The Banff Centre • June 5, 2010 maps and shadows is a sound garden for an ensemble of beautiful and creative people, a coming community: Noel Brennan drums, Jihye Kim voice, Mike Morrisseau guitar, Anna Okenev violin, Neil O’Loghlen bass, Leonardo Piantino saxophone, Katie Rife vibraphone, Richard Savery bass clarinet, Alex...

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poligames IV
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poligames IV

May 23, 2010

Antonio Politano recorders, Giorgio Magnanensi electric guitar & live electronics   mp3 [Download]   listen to poligames I, II & III HERE  ...

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ethuiá IV
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ethuiá IV

May 23, 2010

Giorgio Magnanensi electric guitar & live electronics, Milano 1992 mp3 [Download] a DAT tape with lots of crackling clicks …and fire  ...

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peggy’s song
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peggy’s song

May 23, 2010

a piece for/with Peggy Lee cello, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics live recording from Three Sixty Five by Wen Wei Wang mp3 [Download]    ...

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this spring
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this spring

May 20, 2010

this spring, from Veda Hille‘s beautiful CD this riot life an arrangement for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, drum, bass & percussion • Veda Hille piano   ThisSpring [Download]   This spring is the one That other springs were trying for Other seasons aim to be The perfect light on perfect trees The birds are brighter   The blossoms have achieved their peak Explosions in...

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electronic manipulations
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Uri Caine piano, Ralph Alessi trumpet, Ben Perowski drums, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics Scotia Bank Dance Centre, Vancouver New Music Festival • October 24, 2009   electronic manipulations [Download]  ...

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2 songs for new year’s eve
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new year’s eve 2006 live improvisation with Andrew Bate drums, Chris Rolfe live electronics, Giorgio Magnanensi rhodes and live electronics CAG time capsule [Download] mp3...

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