🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁🥁💡🥁💡💡🥁💡🥁💡 🈚️ ‘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...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Another fun plot* of circles and squares (spheres & cubes) plus some noisy characters, on the Tektronix. This is for David Henderson-Hean, and hopefully he’ll see it live in action soon. Audio is directly from the room, so not really great. *) Two separate stereo channels overlapping on the CRT of a Tektronix 564 ...
The enhanced drone of my hotel room at 4am interiority… I believe that’s about the inability to talk about the things we wish we could but we can’t really express; things we try to express, communicate, project in a sentimental way, where sentimentality doesn’t really represent the inexplicable and it’s just a faint illusory form of it. What I’m trying...
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...
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 ; )...
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...
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...
Walter Zanetti is a wonderful musician and this recording is about beautiful sound and music. I played with Walter many times when in Italy and I miss playing with him a lot. He is not only a great friend but a musician with shining musicality and pure sound. Thank you for this Walter!!! wbpreludio [Download] ...
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] ...
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...
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...