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🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁🥁💡🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁💡 🈚️ ‘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...

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...


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...


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 ...





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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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...

🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ ‘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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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)...

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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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...







…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) ...


…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...



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 ...

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...


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)...








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...

…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...


“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...



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...

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 ...

…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...

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...

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) ...

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...

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...

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...


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) ...



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...




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...




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...

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.“ ☯️ ...

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. ...

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...

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...




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...






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....





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 ...

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...

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 ...





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...




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...





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 –...

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) ...

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...


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...




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...


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...


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...



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 ...





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...

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 ...










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...



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 ...





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...

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...


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...

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...





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...

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...


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,...

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,...

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...

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...





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...

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...

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...

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...


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...





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...

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...



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...





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...



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...


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...


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 ; )...






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...



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]...


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...

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...


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...

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...

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...





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...



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...

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...


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] ...

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 ...



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...

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....


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...





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...

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...







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...




…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...



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...










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,...








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...







…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...








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...



