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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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ansia rumore sogno • for Chris
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ansia rumore sogno • for Chris

Apr 21, 2021

  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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il suono indaco
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il suono indaco

Aug 23, 2019

il suono indaco (2011) dedicated to Walter Zanetti, Steve Wright and Chris Rolfe with a big thank you and love to Veda Hille and all of you wonderful and inspiring people. Still hoping to fully remount this with the 2 guitars.   il suono indaco [Download]   panel III  ...

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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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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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C7
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C7

Mar 10, 2012

remix by Chris Rolfe mp3 [Download]   musical communication only exists on a purely emotional level,   emotionality is immanent,   expression is definitely linked to the instant,   instant is unpredictably transcendent.   ...

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NIME 2005
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NIME 2005

Jun 30, 2011

Ligature (excerpt)  at NIME 2015 circuit-bent toys on a multiple speaker set up. Live spatialization by Chris Rolfe   mp3  [Download]   Paul Lehrman’s NIME05 Report NIME “There was no uncertainty in the next piece, Ligature, by Giorgio Magnanensi, an Italian-born composer who now lives in Vancouver. Seated at the FOH console in the middle of the audience, and looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Napolean...

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Penderecki SQ
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Penderecki SQ

Feb 25, 2011

teatro dell’udito VI Live recording: mp3 [Download]   10 March 2011, 8pm • Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street)   Penderecki String Quartet Jeremy Bell, violin Jacob Braun, cello Jerzy Kaplanek, violin Christine Vlajk, viola   MARJAN MOZETICH (b.1948) Lament in the Trampled Garden for string quartet (1992)   KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (b.1933) String Quartet No.3, Leaves of an Unwritten Diary (2008) (Canadian Premiere)   ERKKI-SWEN...

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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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teatro dell’udito XV JA/Mix
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teatro dell’udito XV JA/Mix

Oct 25, 2010

teatro dell’udito XV JA/Mix • ricercare for prepared ukulele, cello and live electronics Vancouver, October 2, 2010 James Hill ukulele, Anne Davison cello, Giorgio Magnanensi & Chris Rolfe live electronics teatro dell’udito XV JA:Mix [Download]...

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bowls, breath and strings
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bowls, breath and strings

Aug 12, 2010

a remix by Chris Rolfe using samples from the string quartet no. 3, Terri Hron’s recorder and his own Max/Msp patches. I hope I’ll have more to post by Chris as his work is beautiful and intense and his coding in Max/Msp jsut the best and most musical I ever found. Check his MacPOD here: http://www.thirdmonk.com/MacPOD.html mp3 [Download]  ...

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missing rmx
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missing rmx

Aug 9, 2010

piano samples by Berish Bilander from Missing by Andrew Brooks mp3 [Download]   This track is a stereo reduction of an 8-channel spatialization using MacPOD and MagnaMixer by Chris Rolfe...

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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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personum
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personum

May 22, 2010

full circle   Personum Sound installation for an interactive performance space using circuit-bent toys and multichannel spatialization The Scotiabank Dance Centre – The Faris Family Studio 677 Davie Street, Vancouver February 6–15, 2006 • 1pm–7pm (free entrance) Performances: Friday 10, Sunday 12 • 8pm (free entrance) Workshop: Sunday 12 • 2pm–5pm (free entrance by submission)   An open work of art can be interpreted...

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teatro dell’udito XII
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teatro dell’udito XII

May 20, 2010

  The Banff Centre for The Arts • February 2010   Winter Residency Ensemble  Giorgio Magnanensi, conduction & live electronics Chris Rolfe, multi channel diffusion & live electronics   TDU XII live [Download]   teatro dell’udito XII • program notes   Leah Abramson , voice & electronics * Kari Anderson, oboe Minna Choi, violin Katelyn Clark, harpsichord Kevin Hanlon, electric guitar Terri Hron, recorders...

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2 songs for new year’s eve
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2 songs for new year’s eve

Apr 15, 2010

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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teatro dell’udito VI (part 1)
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teatro dell’udito VI (part 1)

Mar 21, 2010

Piece written for the Penderecki String Quartet and dedicated to Chris Rolfe. For string quartet, live electronics and audio visualization with a dual channel oscilloscope. From the concert at the 2009 Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in Kitchener – Waterloo Ontario   Watch Part 2 HERE              ...

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