PAIN FORGED

doom / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / experimental / noise / dark ambient / drone music

PANICSVILLE

avant-garde / electroacoustic / noise / surrealism

PAOLO MEONI

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Paolo Meoni
Visual Artist.
Nato a Prato nel 1968, dove vive e lavora, Paolo Meoni indaga l’intimità dell’immagine video attraverso semplici dispositivi che mettono in forma la fenomenologia del mezzo nella sua purezza evocativa mostrando,  con accorgimenti rudimentali,  la  potenzialità dell' immagine. 
Dopo aver partecipato nel 2008 a “New Delhi: Urban  Landscapes”, al Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea L . Pecci di Prato  all’Italian Cultural Institute di New Delhi, nel 2010  è selezionato al  32°  Film festival mediterraneo di Montpellier nella sezione sperimentale. Nel 2011 partecipa al  Festival delle città impresa , impatto paesaggio , a cura del centro studi Usine e Fondazione Francesco Fabbri. 
Nel 2012 En plein air, doppia personale Galleria Die Mauer e Dryphoto arte contemporanea,  partecipa alla collettiva del museo MAN di Nuoro “L’evento immobile. Sfogliare il tempo”, ed ad una selezione del premio Terna tenutasi al Multimedia Art Museum di Mosca e al progetto “Mondi”, in vari luoghi della citta’ di Prato.
Sempre nel 2012 ha partecipato al Museo Mart  alla “ La Magnifica Ossessione ’’.Nel 2013 sempre al museo Mart di Rovereto ha partecipato ad una mostra  curata da il filosofo Jean-Luc Nancy dal titolo “L’altro Ritratto”. Presenta la nuova sigla per Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2013, termina il 2013 con la personale Volumi nella galleria AplusB di Brescia.

PAOLO SANNA

PAUL CHAIN

doom / musique concrete / esoteric / minimalism / avant-garde / experimental

Paul Chain
Aliases: Death SS 1977-1984  |  Paul Chain - Violet Theatre 1984-2003.

Paul Chain is an Italian multi-instrumentalist musician,
record producer and Italian artist.

Official biography "art evolution system" updated to: May 18 2016 [PDF]

Author linked to experimental music and radical improvisation,
influenced by minimalism and musique concrete,
pioneer of the doom metal genre
and precursor of the "Italian dark sound".

Paul Chain (1977-2003) declares his artistic death on April 05 2003.
 

PER AHLUND

Alias: AUM ARRHYTHMIA

musique concrete / sound installation / esoteric / abstractism / ambient music / abstract symbolism / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / dark ambient / abstract expressionism / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

Per Ahlund, born 1976, resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he’s involved in several experimental music-, improvisation- and sound art-projects. His live soundscapes blur the boundaries between noise and music, stillness and hysteria, darkness and light. He create compositions on the verge of dissolving and focuses on mood and texture rather than tonality and rhythm. He performs live on a regular basis and has the last few years toured with acts like Amber Asylum, ?Alos, b°tong and Origami Galaktika. He has released several full length albums containing abstract, dark soundscapes with such projects as Diskrepant, Skare and Aum Arrhythmia. Live he use contact microphones, gadgets, loops and effects to form abstract sound environments created in the moment. His live performances are often based on old radios, voice, newly found objects and junk used as instruments. “The soundscapes encourage you to travel, and then dissolve, in space and time. To merge with the frequencies. To have a dialogue with yourself. To finally think of nothing. To be released...”


 

PHILIPPE PETIT

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / concrete turntablism / industrial music / drone music

PHILIPPE PETIT is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. PETIT uses a computer to build up electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machine he likes to move various glasses, or percussive objects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds. A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT has celebrated his 25th year of sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp. PETIT has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, working with: Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti, My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, Simon Fisher Turner, Justin Broadrick and many more... Aside his solo works, PETIT is active in Strings Of Consciousness, does a duo with Lydia Lunch, and his collab with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust)

PIETRO MANDER

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Pietro Mander
Professor at Dep. Assiriology - University of Naples "L'Orientale"

PIETRO RIPARBELLI

Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / K11 / KAULA / TELE.S.THERION

video art / visual art / musique concrete / sound installation / psychedelic / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / radionoise / ambient music / acousmatic / weird black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / site specific / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound Artist Statement: My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception. I realize works as PIETRO RIPARBELLI especially related to the world of Contemporary Art. So each work arise from a conceptual idea turned into sound. The field in which I principally work is linked to the perception of the sound landscape and to the perception of inner states of consciousness related to other dimensions of awareness. K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers and field recordings taken from very specific locations. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places turned into fields of drone with particular interest into the study of the dynamics of Noise. 

With PT-R project I want to investigate the way to create rhythmic sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings) with particular reference to the world of electronic scene. The method I utilize within PT-R project is based on sampling of environmental sound sources turned into rhythmic framework.

PINO PARINI

PINO PARINI

POSEITRONE | LUCA DI DATO

Alias: MECONIUM

musique concrete / performative art / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / abstract expressionism / harsh / industrial music / drone music

Luca Di Dato

PROJECT D.A.R.K.

musique concrete / sound installation / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / drone music

PROJECT D.A.R.K. are: Kirsten Reynolds, Ashley Davies, Tony Pattinson and Jason Cook. Project Dark have been producing large-scale live video/music shows since 1995. A catalogue of custom sculpted 7" singles is used as a basis for generating a unique range of sounds and spectacular related images. Project Dark have performed 'Excited by Gramophones' extensively in many varying international venues. The catalogue of 7" singles has also been exhibited in the UK and Europe. A 3D show 'Disc Continued...' was premiered in England and has toured in Europe. In London it was presented as part of 'Sonic Boom Live' - a night associated with the 'Sonic Boom' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank London. Project Dark were invited by the curator David Toop to contribute an installation piece to this, the first major international exhibition of sound art in England.

PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI

Alias: K11 / PIETRO RIPARBELLI / KAULA / MACABRE / SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY / TELE.S.THERION

musique concrete / psychedelic / radionoise / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / harsh / idm / martial noise / glitch / industrial music

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound With PT-R project I want to investigate the way to create rhythmic sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings) with particular reference to the world of electronic scene. The method I utilize within PT-R project is based on sampling of environmental sound sources turned into rhythmic framework.