for Walter I played this Wasburn 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....
We finally started our research and experiments with the interactive floor. After testing and experimenting for sometime with a variety of smaller settings, this is finally a prototype for a possibly larger floor and walls system that I look forward to developing with Josh Martin, and sharing it with everyone in the near future. ...
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A distant collaboration with Vicky Mettler (aka Kee Avil) presented by Sawdust Collector and Barking Sphinx View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sawdust Collector (@heysawdustcollector) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sawdust Collector (@heysawdustcollector) ºººº Sawdust Collector and Barking Sphinx Performance Present ºººº FieldTrips • May 2021 Weekly Releases, Tuesdays at 9:30 pm • May 4...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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 ...
MIXTOPHONICS come celebrate sonic imagination and lovely people! mixtophonics has returned, after 17 years in June 2018. VNM started mixtophonics in 2001 at the Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive, to offer a space to present sound and music explorations by a variety of young and upcoming artists living in Vancouver. It run for 3 years and it was a great monthly gathering fostering the beautiful energy...
Thank you Lee for the video! Star System playing the music of Sun Ra Recorded live at the China Cloud in Vancouver, Canada on March 14th, 2018. Featuring Colin Cowan (double bass, electronics, megaphone) | Daniel Gaucher (drums, electronics, arrangements) | Skye Brooks (percussion) | Tom Wherrett (electric guitar, electronics) Giorgio Magnanensi (piano, laptop) | Ted Crosby (saxophone, clarinet) | John...
TDU MH – il fuoco e l’artificio (2018) for cello, 16 cedar and maple flat panel resonators and live electronics WEST COAST RADIANS, March 10, 2018 TDU MH has been written with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and it is dedicated to Marina Hasselberg. This work is both a statement and a poetic exploration. The statement displays sound...
URI CAINE & ENSEMBLE a Vancouver New Music production arranged & conducted by Giorgio Magnanensi featuring Uri Caine : compositions, piano || Cameron Wilson : violin || Molly MacKinnon : violin || John Kastelic : viola || Marina Hasselberg : cello || prOphecy sun : voice, theremin & electronics || Lee Hutzulak : synthesizers, electronics & auxiliary percussion || Julian La Brooy : sampler...
AVENTA Ensemble // Bill Linwood, Conductor Müge Büyükçelen, Violin • Mieka Michaux, Viola • Alasdair Money, cello • Darren Buhr, Double Bass • Mark Takeshi McGregor, Flute and Piccolo • AK Coope, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet • Darnell Linwood, French Horn • Corey Rae, Percussion • Roger Admiral, Piano ISCM 2017 • The Round House – Vancouver, November 8, 2017 ...
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...
Friday, August 25th 7PM Spacedock 8PM Dylan Rhymer 8:30PM Devil in the Wood Shack 9:30PM Buckman Coe Saturday, August 26th 11AM Doug Koyama/The Imprints/Spacedock *Collective Set* Noon Matthew Lovegrove 1PM Kitty & The Rooster/Steve Weave and Giorgio Magnanensi *Collective Set* 3PM The Imprints 4PM Devil in the Wood Shack/Dirty Mountain *Collective Set* 5:30PM Kitty & The Rooster 6:30PM Scenic Route to Alaska 7:35PM...
I’m very happy I’ll be working and playing with Doug Schmidt, my dear friend of our early 2000’s duo raw meat & butterflies. Doug has been away from Canada for many years now and it will be great to play together again after all this time. We will present a new set of pieces during Accordion Noir Festival 2017 in Vancouver • September 8, St. James Anglican Church...
Talea Ensemble (US) Saturday, March 11, 2017 • 8PM Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM The Annex • 823 Seymour Street [Map] Program: Stefan Maier: territories III (2017)* Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002) Olga Neuwirth: spazio elastico (2005) Pierluigi Billone: Ebe und anders (2014) With: Oren Fader, electric guitar Jeffrey Means, conductor * World Premiere, commissioned by Vancouver New Music with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts. Last...
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...
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...
BENT: A Showcase of Circuit Bending at VIVO Saturday, November 7th . Doors at 7pm. Featuring over 15 artists/hackers and musicians, this evening is a showcase of Vancouver artists and makers exploring the art of circuit bending. There will be a circuit playground, a “Show and Tell” of different projects, and performances throughout the evening. …a nice reunion, ten year later… Shawn Cashin, Kedrick James,...
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...
Thank you Lee for the great video! Noise in the Key of D On a beautiful summer evening members of VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) gathered in the spaciousness of the VCC Atrium to make noise in the key of D, at the suggestion of Matt O’Donnell. Players arranged themselves throughout the space, utilizing multiple balconies over 3 levels and a large main...
I’m playing with Kenton Loewen at the Emerald on July 29. It’s always great making music with him. When I play with Kenton I am always enjoying the energy and the ephemeral beauty of our musical encounters, plus Kenton’s ability to dialogue and commit with me to wander into unpredictable sonic paths. Beyond that I simply aspire to be speechless, without...
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...
I’m very happy I’ll be playing with Hayato Kubo at DESTROY VANCOUVER XI also featuring ✖ STEFAN SMULOVITZ & SAMMY CHIEN ✖ ROOT & BRANCH ✖ BUBBY ✖ NERVOUS OPERATOR ✖ BRIAN BEAUDRY + DJ SILK DESTROY VANCOUVER XI 2625 KASLO Street FRIDAY NOV 21 | DOORS 〓 8.30PM CONCERT 〓 9.30PM-1AM ADMISSION: $10 ...
Here is another theatre for the ear with some frantic noises and stuttering beats. I love the animated plots of these useless waves, they remind me of continuously avoiding to assert “a” will, or any formal path, relying instead on the bare existence and presence of sound and light: the audible and fluid immanence of being and time. For Nancy Lanthier’s listening eyeballs ;...
Tapegerm is a group of recording artists who share sounds and create new sonic experiences with them. We are a close-knit community and we welcome evolving ideas which explore new ways to collaborate. Tapegerm was formed in May 2000 and after fourteen years of online collaboration, resulting in over 100 albums of music we decided to start fresh July 4, 2014. It was...
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...
…scratching a tape head on a bunch of old discarded tapes, a broken HD, CD player and transformers. Remix ad libitum using the first file (tapehead Amix) as the main track, or as you like… 🙂 tapehead Amix [Download] tapehead Bmix [Download] tapehead Cmix [Download] tapehead D CDmix [Download] tapehead E statics mix [Download] ...
A great performance of lalít III • tre pannelli con Coda by Transmission lalít III [Download] Guy Pelletier, flute Lori Freedman, bass clarinet Alain Giguère, violin Julie Trudeau, cello Julien Grégoire, percussion Brigitte Poulin, piano with Brice Gatinet, electronics lalít III (tre pannelli con Coda) for alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion and electronics (2012) lalít III is dedicated to Transmission ...
On May 16 I will be in Halifax playing at Suddenly Listen‘s Waves, Strings and Wires with Norman Adams – cello, live processing John DS Adams – electronics Lukas Pearse – bass, video processing I am really looking forward to meeting Norman, John and Lukas this May in Halifax. I look forward to the different ways in which our creative process will unveil itself while...
with the Titanic and Cage in the background remix the last 2 min with this The Latin word quid is the neuter form of quis, which is the feminine and masculine form. As an interrogative, it means what, who. As an indefinite, it means anybody, anyone, anything. quid [Download] for flute, bass clarinet, French horn, viola, cello, double bass, percussion, live video and...
John Cage @ 100 an homage to an inspiring human being. I tried to recreate John Cage’s voice through computer voice, filtering etc. The text is an excerpt from Where are we going? And what are we doing? More Cage related noise HERE, and a nice remix by RODIN : http://www.movementae.com/music/rosafiction/gmagnanensi_movementae.mp3 ...
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...
Sunday March 18, 2012 • 8PM at CIRS http://gcc.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/03/13/art-sustainability-cirs-4/ listen HERE Paraphrasing a great essay by Rudolf Frieling on Medien Kunst Netz, this project shares ideas and reflections about contemporary art, and a possible vision where contemporary art and creativity itself must occupy the commensurate fields and forms of action, and seek production processes that do not isolate art from life but instead influence life. In that tension, express 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
more denoising… From the into infinity website: All of the works that comprise INTO INFINITY are available to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial copyright license. This means that you are free to share them and remix them for any noncommercial purpose you wish. We can’t wait to see what you do with these infinite loops! mp3 [Download] ...
into infinity remix an interesting soundscape mixing 276 samples, filtering, denoising etc… mp3 [Download] from the into infinity website: All of the works that comprise INTO INFINITY are available to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial copyright license. This means that you are free to share them and remix them for any noncommercial purpose you wish. We can’t wait to see what...
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] ...
audiopolaroid Castello di Bazzano, May 1998 Massimo Mariani electric guitar, Walter Zanetti nylon string & electric guitar, Marco Ruggeri synth & voice, Giorgio Magnanensi live electronics A very oniric synth-pop/space electronica. A reunion is due! …plus some Canadian additions ; ) mp3 [Download] ...
Cock-Pit “The ideas for my new work are somewhat a reflection of my own experiences as a student at my dance school in China. I was one of five boys who shared a small room for more than five years. Sometimes we liked each other and at other times we did not, and at other times we liked some of the boys but not...
sounds for Joost Rekveld’s lichenometry live remix of 24 sound files, live electronics and circuit bent TI S&M performed live at the VNM Festival • October 23, 2010 Most of the soundfiles were generated using Joost’s clips as raw material again, and read as a video matrix triggering various self-generative audio-video synthesizers in Max/Msp Jitter. While listening you can watch the 7 clips from...
for ukulele, cello and live electronics you can listen a piece I did in preparation of the concert HERE Music On Main • modulus festival Saturday, October 2, 2010 Get to know a bright new musical talent when Music on Main introduces Chris Morano, the first artist chosen for the new Emerge on Main programme. Chris will play a stunnigly virtuosic programme of rarely...
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...
for Andrew Brooks live rmx 03 on Presence & I Heard It Before Part I by Andrew Brooks saxophone, with Berish Bilander piano/nord, Nick Abbey bass and Hugh Harvey drums remixed live with Andrew Bate drums, Giorgio Magnanensi rhodes and live electronics Thank you Andrew for letting me enter into your sounds and beautiful music. g mp3 [Download] ...
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] ...
Original song by Andrew Brooks saxophone, with Berish Bilander piano/nord, Nick Abbey bass and Hugh Harvey drums with the instrumental score of After the gold rush from Neil Remix peggy lee – cello jesse zubot – violin christie reside – flute ak coope – clarinet joanna schultz – french horn shaun brodie – trumpet jeremy berkman – trombone barry mirochnick and skye brooks –...
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...
Hans Rott (Vienna 1858-1884) wrote his 1rst and only Symphony at 22 and died three years later after a deep depression. Brahms didn’t like his work and advised him to give up music (???). His symphony sounds like Gustav Mahler ante litteram and I’ve always wondered if Gustav ever read Hans’ score before writing his own 1rst… mp3 [Download] some youtube links...
…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,...
LABORATORIO LABORATORIO Arts Society is a non-profit arts organization based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. LABORATORIO’s mandate is to foster art works in which actual dialogical experiences (i.e., dialogues of various kinds) take place. By acknowledging the importance of dialogic modalities of art, LABORATORIO wishes to promote new aesthetic values such as creative improvisation, interactivity and real-time remote interaction. LABORATORIO springs from...
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...
teatro dell’udito (...the first one), for Standing Wave AK Coope clarinet, Rebecca Whitling violin, Peggy Lee cello, Allen Stiles piano, Vern Griffiths percussion, Giorgio Magnanensi conduction and live electronics with Veda Hille piano & vocals, Christie Reside flute, Cameron Wilson violin, Steve Wright guitar, Kedrick James screaming and spoken words teatro-dell-udito-sw [Download] download Teatro dell’udito poster and the Program dispersion, infiltration, osmosis, adoption, abstraction, contagion music...
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...
