Edizione d'arte a tiratura limitata: 50 esemplari numerati a mano e certificati.
Art Edition: Strictlylimited to 50 hand-numbered copies with certificate of authenticity.
"Per me la morte è la base di tutto. [...] Anche il cimitero è un luogo molto importante per me; di esso ne ho sempre sfruttato tutto. [...] La gente ha un'opinione distorta del cimitero, crede che sia la porta dell'aldilà o chissà cosa; invece esso è solamente il posto dove vengono deposti i cadaveri, mentre l'energia si è già trasferita da un'altra parte. Quindi nel cimitero c'è questa assenza d'energia che col tempo sono riuscito a percepire e grazie alla quale ho capito molte cose". - Estratto da "Filosofia Viola", intervista a Paul Chain di Marco Cavallini, del 2 Aprile 1996, Sadsunmusic.com -
The Dying Edition. Sound mummification and the art of fixed sounds:
Hand made hard cardboard Box, Limited to 50 copies hand-numbered, Printed cotton fabric, 7 inch folder, Cd, Inserts, "C60% H6% O32% N2%", Hand printed b/w Photos, Ceramic record. All of the components of this edition are intended to die.
The recordings contained within, were selected from the "relative Tapes" for thir symbolic connectedness to other specific pieces included in four of the official albums released by Minotauro Records.
CERAMIC RECORD:
The ephemeral ceramic record is designed to dissipate as a result of being played. The sound waves contained within are consumed each time it is played on a turntable, until they have once and forever disappeared, and in their place will remain mute ash.
01 - Satan's Future (1981) 5:27
Ephemeral single sided record, 45 prm.
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CD ARCHIVE TRACK LIST:
01 - Satan's Future (1981) 5:27
Paul Chain.
02 - Brain Sea (1984) 5:06
Paul Chain.
03 - Ghosts Of The Past [Spettri Del Passato] (1981) 14:05
Paul Chain: Sinth and Effects;
Milena Lanciaprima: Violin;
Giuseppe Cardone: Drum Machine and Percussion.
04 - Electric Line (1980) 4:20
Paul Chain.
05 - Oblivious Part 2 (1989) 5:15
Paul Chain.
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Paul Chain (1977-2003)
Artistic death declared on April 5, 2003
This ‘dying edition’ represents the conceptual interment of this artistic ‘body’.
Its final grave.
Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner:
Minotauro Records - Music from the labirinth | Marco Melzi.
Audio editing and re-mastering by: Elettroformati Milano.
Original Photos courtesy by: Fulvio Zagato | Paul Chain Official Fan Club.
Handmade printed photos by: Andrea Sozzi.
Concept and edition design, curating and manufacture by: RMEDL|SG
Published: April 5 2016 | Radical Matters - Editions/Label
Licensed by: Creative Commons.
Catalogue: RMLE085
LIMITED EDITION: 50 certified copies.
RELATED RELEASES:
Audio-catalogue. Sound Corner 21 / Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Roma.
Paul Chain (1977-2003) dichiara la sua morte artistica il 05 Aprile 2003.
Lo scorso anno, per l’intero mese di Aprile, è stata presentata in anteprima, presso il Sound Corner dell’Auditorium - Parco della musica di Roma, la documentazione sonora del progressivo disfacimento fonografico dell’oggetto sonoro in ceramica contenuto in questa edizione “morente, concepita, assieme ad altri 4 multipli d’arte che seguiranno questa pubblicazione (il cui materiale originale, digitalizzato, si trova nel cd-archivio compreso nell’edizione), per rendere omaggio all'opera dell'artista Paul Chain, ed alla sua personale ricerca escatologica, l' “antica filosofia della morte o magia viola*”.
(*da "Detaching From Satan")
Ogni parte di questa edizione concettuale è stata progettata seguendo i suggerimenti lasciati dall'autore, il quale crede fermamente che il potere nascosto di queste registrazioni dovrebbe essere lasciato morire. Questa "edizione morente" rappresenta così l’inumazione concettuale di questo corpo artistico, la sua sepoltura finale.
Questa edizione d’arte, e gli elementi che la compongono, sono stati progettati per deperire nel tempo, fino al loro completo disfacimento, alla loro totale consunzione, fino a svelarne la forma "sublime", per diventare così oggetto di pura contemplazione.
La particolare terra che compone l'opera, ricca di materiale organico, è l'elemento chimico catalizzatore di tale processo. Allo stesso modo, l’oggetto sonoro in ceramica contenuto nell'edizione, consumerà via via le onde sonore incise attraverso il processo stesso di riproduzione, che avviene per frizione meccanica della puntina del giradischi sul disco stesso. Lentamente, scompariranno ad ogni ascolto, lasciando solo mute ceneri. Questo nuovo "corpo artistico" così sublimato, potrà essere conservato ed ammirato nella sua nuova natura di reliquia.
The Dying Edition. Sound mummification and the art of fixed sounds:
DESCRIZIONE DEL CONTENUTO:
Fine art box-set realizzato a mano, stola in contone stampata oro, artwork formato
7 pollici, Cd archivio, stampe ed inserti, certificazione, "C60% H6% O32% N2%", disco bianco in ceramica realizzato a mano, 2 fotografie b/n stampate a mano.
OGGETTO SONORO / DISCO IN CERAMICA:
Satan's Future (1981)
Single sided record, 45 prm.
CD ARCHIVIO:
01 - Satan's Future (1981)
02 - Brain Sea (1984)
03 - Ghosts Of The Past [Spettri Del Passato] (1981)
04 - Electric Line (1980)
05 - Oblivious Part 2 (1989)
Contenuto:
I. Disco in ceramica: disco in copia unica, inciso a 45 rpm, master originale dell’esecuzione registrata su nastro magnetico, pubblicata da RMEDL e realizzata in occasione dell'audio diffusione pubblica, tenutasi presso Sound Corner, Auditorium -Parco Della Musica, Roma. L’audio originale è stato reso disponibile per gentile concessione di Marco Melzi, Minotauro Records. Il disco di ceramica è un oggetto sonoro effimero che è stato progettato per essere consumato durante il suo ascolto, durante il processo stesso di riproduzione, che per frizione meccanica della puntina del giradischi, sul disco in ceramica, ha consumato via via i microsolchi fonografici incisi. Lentamente le onde sonore sono scomparse, lasciando solo muta polvere.
II. Polvere: polvere di ceramica, derivata dalla consuzione del disco durante la sua esecuzione registrata su nastro.
III. Fotografia: stampata fotografica da negativo realizzata in copia unica da Andrea Sozzi.
L'immagine originale è stata resa disponibile da Fulvio Zagato, Paul Chain Official Fan Club.
05 Aprile 2015 (05 Aprile 2003 / 05 Aprile 2015)
Auditorium -Parco Della Musica, Roma.
Esemplare Unico.
Pubblicato da: Radical Matters - Editions/Label
MICHAEL ESPOSITO | Phantom Plastics
[Michael Esposito & Patrick Esposito]
"The Maladjusted of Manteno Asylum"
SOUND OBJECT VERSION :
7"ARTWORK PACKAGE
+ FINE ART CDR
+ 7" ONE SIDE GLUE RECORD
+ E.BOOK (194 PAGES PDF FORMAT)
This opera it is based on the E.V.P. researches by Michael Esposito, conducted in the years in the Manteno State Hospital (1927 – 1985), located in rural Manteno Township, Kankakee County, Illinois. The Sound Object version include a fine art CDR and a seven inch GLUE RECORD, playable in regular amplified turntables, to discover and reveal other psychoacoustics dimensions of this metaphysic piece, using this opera as device for your direct instrumental transcommunication experiments. This work include also a special e.book of meta-photography sessions, psi-focused on the residual energies of three original pictures of the Manteno State Hospital and conceived to explore the psychic drifts connected to the main building and to the hydrotherapy rooms of this abandoned psychiatric hospital.
Radical Matters - Editions / Label | SG
Presents the hermetic multidimensional concept album
"CHTHONIAN MUSIC" :
Music composed, played and directed by K11 Pietro Riparbelli
Concept, ideation, site specific project direction, screenplay, score, texts, lyrics, sigils and design of the editions: RM-ED/L | Sandro Gronchi. 2 channels and multi channel audio composition, performing, mixing, mastering and real-time spatialization processing by Pietro Riparbelli. Acoustic installation by Sandro Gronchi and Pietro Riparbelli. Recording sessions: Francisco López, Christina Kubisch, Massimo Bartolini, Seth Cluett, Y.E.R.M.O., Francesco Brasini / Seven Guitars, Luciano Maggiore, Gianluca Becuzzi, Andrea Marutti, Philippe Petit , Deadwood, Burial Hex, Aderlating, Utarm, Nordvargr, L'Acephale. This conceptual album is a 2 channel stereo hi-fi transposition of a related site specific multi-channel acoustic installation set, based on the sound spatialization system I.M.E.A.S.Y, both developped from the hermetic multidimensional sound art project Chthonian Music, conceived by RMEDL to be performed in an ancient Etruscan hypogeum sited in Cecina (Italy), during the spring solstice (Ante Diem Duodecimum Kalendas Apriles) within the programmatic-conceptual event "Metasound – Independent Curatorial Experiences in ntemporary Art: from the object up to the event: sound art, multimedia and practice of the art of listening",an hypermedial site-specific project, cured by SG as RMEDL, installed within the archaeological park of Cecina, in the core of the ancient Tuscia.
This conceptual album and the related audio installation are musically composed by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 who playing organ, voices, drum and directis the recording sessions of the acoustic sources produced by the previous mentioned artists, expecially conceived by the authors for this project. This multidimensional collaborative opera is a bridge between the conception of sound within the contemporary art scene, the postindustrial culture and the avantgarde black metal musical scene, focusing on creating a dialogic development between radical forms of concrete music, unorthodox sounds, conceptual arts and experimental recordings practices of the acoustic phenomenas.This project is based on the study of the territory where Cecina stands today, already known in Etruscan age with the name of Kaikne or Kaikna and was inhabited in Roman times, when an imperial personality, the consul Albino Cecina who was a descendant of an ancient Etruscan family that came from Volterra (Velathri), ordered the construction of a villa, the ruins of which are still visited in San Vincenzino.
The surrounding area of Cecina, knew a long period of decline, which began with the decline of the Etruscan civilization and marked during the Roman domination. However in medieval times the name of the Tuscan town was quoted by Dante Alighieri (Inf. XIII, 7). The peculiar state of re-veiling of the historical roots of Cecina town, began in the Roman construction plant of the Albini Villa by the department of archaeological sciences of the University of Pisa (in this contest stands the discovery of a headless statue in Egyptian alabaster that represents Isis). It becomes the right condition for the staging of meta-curator project Metasound through which a witness is shown, though as a part of a state of the art research on aesthetic trans-operative promoting by RM-ED/L. The choice of the roman cistern and its adjacent mysteric tunnels, as the core of the catabasis experience intrinsec in the concept of Chthonian Music. and as sound-chamber of the related acoustic installation, comes from the study on the symbolic meaning of places of worship, that was developed in Etruscan age - civilization that first settled in the adjacent grounds to the Cecina river. The re-veiling of the etruscan settlement, roman villa and medioeval cemetery, in the small park of San Vincenzino, opens to the possibility of considering the reading of the archaeological sites in their likely original function of sacred hypogeum. The cavity of the cistern, thus, becomes a possible reuse of an earlier site of Etruscan origine, with a more likely symbolic function of a place consecrated to the worship of Chthonic Deities. Demeter-Persephone (Phersipnai) was the goddess which was based the religion of the Mysteries, imported by the Etruscans in Italy.
Kidnapped by Hades and carried in the realm of the underworld, becaming the queen of the hell through his ritual death. Demeter, the goddess of the earth got that Persephone / Phersipnai reigned during the winter months and in the remaining months could return to earth, whose myth is the awakening of the soul and its cyclical path of death and transfiguration. Delving into the dark recesses of the earth, meant to open a gate to a supernatural dimension. Tunnels and mazes of paths represented the symbolic difficult journey of the soul towards a higher life. Exit from the bowels of the land, from the darkest recesses of the earth and the human soul, represents the rebirth of the soul to a higher level of living. The annual return of Phersipnai on earth among the living, coincided with the beginning of spring, and on this occasion were celebrated the Lesser Mysteries, or the second Birth. On this occasion, wizards with snakes twisted on the arms, moved at the flickering light of torches in long orgiastic processions (Nuktélia) that ended with a search of the queen Phersipnai.Hetrvria Hermetica.
Audio Score:
Score:
I - Mvndvs [Munth] Francisco Lopez - field recording, acousmatic re-processing. Seth Cluett - deep low frequencies sounds Pietro Riparbelli - distorted organ, mixing
II - Katábasis
pt.I Christina Kubisch - tuning forks, electromagnetic filtered
sounds recorded with an inductiveheadphone system, cello flageolett. Francesco Brasini / Sevenguitars - guitars, amplifiers, enviromental feedbacks Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
pt.II L'Acephale - guitar, drum, voice Utarm - power electronics, drones Pietro Riparbelli - composition
pt.III [Epopteia] Burial Hex - piano and effects Andrea Marutti - sinth, drones, concrete sounds Pietro Riparbelli - organ, voices, composition
pt.V Luciano Maggiore - concrete sounds Aderlating - concrete sounds, drones Philippe Petit - concrete turntablism Andrea Marutti - sinth Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
MICHAEL ESPOSITO | Phantom Plastics
[Michael Esposito & Patrick Esposito]
"The Maladjusted of Manteno Asylum"
ARTIST'S MULTIPLE VERSION :
HANDMADE NUMERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
7"ARTWORK PACKAGE
+ ACOUSTIC PAPER TURNTABLE (with needle)
+ 7" ONE OF A KIND TRANSPARENT VINYL (unique's record cut)
+ INSERTS
+ E.BOOK 194 (PAGES PDF FORMAT)
+ UNEDIT 4 PAGES ARTICLE FROM THE SERIE "PHANTOM MONOGRAPH"
This opera it is based on the E.V.P. researches by Michael Esposito, conducted in the years in the Manteno State Hospital (1927 – 1985), located in rural Manteno Township, Kankakee County, Illinois. The Artis's Multiple version include an acoustic paper turntable, ready to play the one of a kind transparent vinyl spinned by your hands, (of course the vinyl it's also playable in regular amplified turntables), to discover and reveal other psychoacoustics dimensions of this metaphysic piece, using this opera as device for your direct instrumental transcommunication experiments. This work include also an unedit 4 pages article written by Michael Esposito, titled "The Housekeeper Dilemma", and a special e.book of meta-photography sessions, psi-focused on the residual energies of three original pictures of the Manteno State Hospital and conceived to explore the psychic drifts connected to the main building and to the hydrotherapy rooms of this abandoned psychiatric hospital.
Special Artwork: ARTIST'S MULTIPLE VERSION : HANDMADE NUMERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
7"ARTWORK PACKAGE + ACOUSTIC PAPER TURNTABLE (with needle) + 7" ONE OF A KIND TRANSPARENT VINYL (unique's record cut) + INSERTS
+ E.BOOK 194 (PAGES PDF FORMAT) + UNEDIT 4 PAGES ARTICLE FROM THE SERIE "PHANTOM MONOGRAPH"
“When Ana-Maria Avram conducts, she sometimes seems to be plucking stars from the sky, or jabbing into hives, causing thousands of tiny critters to fly up into the air like flurries of gold dust. Avram allows the moment to shape the music” (WanderingStar e.V.).
In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is hypothetical matter of unknown composition that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be observed directly, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. According to present observations of structures larger than galaxy-sized as well as Big Bang cosmology, dark matter accounts for the vast majority of mass in the observable universe. The composition of dark matter is unknown, but may include ordinary and heavy neutrinos, recently postulated elementary particles such as WIMPs and axions, astronomical bodies such as dwarf stars and planets, and clouds of nonluminous gas. It has been noted that the name "dark matter" serves mainly as an expression of our ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with "terra incognita". Dark Matter are Kasper T. Toeplitz and Antoine Chessex They have realised a monolithic piece of cosmic dark energy, concentrating gravitational lensing phenomenas, in solid waves, through the multi-dimensional quantum-continuum. A must! The duo deals with dense and abstract structures where the hybridisation of the two performers´instruments collapse together resulting in monumental walls of sounds based on the architecture of ruins. DARK MATTER Kasper T. Toeplitz bass, computer, tam. Antoine Chessex sax, electronics. Content list: 1. Mo.n.D. - 55':18'' Visual sources by: Equipo 57 “V.32” 1963 Francois Morellet "Systems" 1961 Alberto Biasi "Interferenza Dinamica" 1961 Audio Mix by: Kasper T. Toeplitz Edition Design by: RMEDL | SG.
"...A brand new psychedelic journey into extreme droning Dark Ambient. A real Masterpiece by two Swedish masterminds: Daniel Jansson (well known as Deadwood) and Per Åhlund (Diskrepant). Believe me, a must! ...for lovers of MZ412, Nordvargr, Deadwood, Pietro Riparbelli / K11, believe me: A Real Must!..." - RMEDL-
"Furs and Masks"
Furs and masks
Competitive nature
Cold line
Ogni sfumatura di blu
"S'Accabadóra "
Crum
Fiocco di cenere
Frasi quasi senza voce
Shine Like Stars
Teste di cavolfiore con orecchie di lepre
Traboccava di trine
Ultima sessione
Cassette Tape description:
This recording is the documentation of the audio installation conceived for Sound Corner 21 / Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Roma, set from 01 to 30 April 2015. It's based on the ceramic sound object of "Satan's Future", contained in the conceptual edition called "dying edition", published by RMEDL in summer 2015, conceived to pay tribute to the opera of the artist Paul Chain and his personal eschatological research, to his philosophy of death or violet magic.
Paul Chain (1977 - 05 April 2003) declares his artistic death on April 05 2003. Following the suggestions left by the author, who strongly believes that the hidden power of these recordings should be left to die, until its consumption, everything involved in the related Dying Edition is designed to die. The "dying edition" represents the conceptual interment of this artistic body, its final grave.
The source of this limited edition ceramic record is designed to be consumed by its playing. The process of playing the ceramic record will consume the engraved sound waves, from time to time. Slowly the sound waves will disappear, untill only mute ash will remain. This audio recording is the direct documentation of various playing of the ceramic record on turntable, synthesized in three parts. "Satan's Future" was originally selected by Paul Chain for his "Relative Tapes" private archive, courtesy by Marco Melzi, Minotauro Records.
Akusmata Sound Festival | 11. - 15.10.2016 | Sound Gallery Akusmata will celebrate its five year anniversary with the Akusmata Sound Festival. This five-day festival presents a broad spectrum of new aural expression. ASF's program includes performances from Norway, Denmark, Russia and Italy. Italian Radical Matters Editions/ Label brings to Helsinki the doom metal alchemist Paul Chain with a sound installation.
Artistic directors of the festival are Petri Kuljuntausta and Kenneth Kovasin.
Akusmata is also the first sound art gallery in Finland since 2011.
Akusmata art gallery it is directed by Petri Kuljuntausta, a composer, musician, sound artist and author of three important books on electronic music and sound art. In close collaboration with natural scientists his research it's developped in the field between art and science. The most extreme musical environment for Kuljuntausta's music is Saturn's moon Titan. When Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (Titan-IVB/Centaur) started its journey in 1997 from Kennedy Space Center, United States, his composition Charm of Sound was inside the Huygens probe of Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, stored on the CD-rom. When Huygens probe reached its destination on Friday January 14, 2005, Kuljuntausta's Charm of Sound landed on the ground of Titan after travelling seven years and four billion kilometres through Space.
Format: White C-40 Single side.
Edition: Limited to 25 hand numbered copies.
Source: Ephemeral sound object, ceramic record.
Running time: 17':00''
Year: 1981 - 2016.
Cassette Tape description:
This recording is the documentation of the audio installation conceived for Akusmata Sound Festival | 11. - 15.10.2016 | Akusmata Sound Art Gallery. It's based on the ceramic sound object of "Satan's Future", contained in the conceptual edition called "dying edition", published by RMEDL in summer 2015, conceived to pay tribute to the opera of the artist Paul Chain and his personal eschatological research, to his philosophy of death or violet magic.
Paul Chain (1977 - 05 April 2003) declares his artistic death on April 05 2003. Following the suggestions left by the author, who strongly believes that the hidden power of these recordings should be left to die, until its consumption, everything involved in the related Dying Edition is designed to die. The "dying edition" represents the conceptual interment of this artistic body, its final grave.
The source of this limited edition ceramic record is designed to be consumed by its playing. The process of playing the ceramic record will consume the engraved sound waves, from time to time. Slowly the sound waves will disappear, untill only mute ash will remain. This audio recording is the direct documentation of various playing of the ceramic record on turntable, synthesized in three parts. "Satan's Future" was originally selected by Paul Chain for his "Relative Tapes" private archive, courtesy by Marco Melzi, Minotauro Records.
In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is hypothetical matter of unknown composition that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be observed directly, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. According to present observations of structures larger than galaxy-sized as well as Big Bang cosmology, dark matter accounts for the vast majority of mass in the observable universe. The composition of dark matter is unknown, but may include ordinary and heavy neutrinos, recently postulated elementary particles such as WIMPs and axions, astronomical bodies such as dwarf stars and planets, and clouds of nonluminous gas. It has been noted that the name "dark matter" serves mainly as an expression of our ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with "terra incognita".
Dark Matter are Kasper T. Toeplitz and Antoine Chessex They have realised a monolithic piece of cosmic dark energy, concentrating gravitational lensing phenomenas, in solid waves, through the multi-dimensional quantum-continuum. A must! The duo deals with dense and abstract structures where the hybridisation of the two performers´instruments collapse together resulting in monumental walls of sounds based on the architecture of ruins. DARK MATTER
Kasper T. Toeplitz bass, computer, tam.
Antoine Chessex sax, electronics.
Content list:
1. Mo.n.D. - 55':18''
Visual sources by:
Equipo 57 “V.32” 1963
Francois Morellet "Systems" 1961
Alberto Biasi "Interferenza Dinamica" 1961
ULTRASPIESSER (Julian Percy, Julian Bonequi, Anton Maiof)
TIGHT FISTED BASTARD
Ultraspiesser is another real jewel of deep avant drone doom free form jazz and psychic electroacoustic sound manipulations!, realised by 3 great sound masters: Julian Percy (aka Ratbag): electric guitar treatments, Julian Bonequi : manipulated drums and voice, Anton Maiof: voice, wii, max/MSP. | No word: Must! Recorded at NK on 16/11/2010, Berlin | www.nkprojekt.de | Mastered by Mauro Martinuz | www.nedac.itContent list:
1. Von oben - 5:25
2. Pprovincial breakdown - 11:57
3. Grate 5:52
4. Spießer = spießer - 9:31
5. Shameover & cheese - 5:03
6. Speed contact - 0:34
7. Carriageway of the mysteries - 15:25
Matarratas is real jewel of deep avant drone doom free form jazz and psychic electroacoustic sound manipulations!, realised by 2 great sound masters: Julian Percy (aka Ratbag): electric guitar treatments, Julian Bonequi : manipulated drums and voice. | No word: Must! Recorded by Ratbag at NK on 18/09/10, Berlin | www.nkproject.de | www.myspace.com/ratbag_ | Track 2 Recorded by Mauro Martinuz for New Weird Berlin | www.nedac.it Content list:
1. El Matarratas - 22:03 min
2. First Floor Apartment Safety - 8:37 min
Track list:
1. Paper and fun in a domestic atmosphere
2. Sex in a small bedroom
3. Walking in S. Petronio- Bologna 2005 (sample)
4. Conversation around a table
5. Paper and fun in a domestic atmosphere 2 (sample)
6. Paper and fun in a domestic atmosphere 3
This web edition contain a short promotional version of the Syntropy audiovisual VHS Edition, realised to let you discover this liminal opera, based on circuit bents and a wide range of devices. The art of noise through mystery and spiritism. Full lenght audiovieo: 4':00" Edition, Curating, Design by RMEDL | SG.
SILENCE WITHOUT REVERBERATIONS:
30 MINUTES INSIDE AN ANECHOIC CHAMBER
An audio-documentary / essay, for uncompromised deep listening expereinces!!!!
ORIGINAL TEXTS:
Silencio sin reverberaciones: 30 minutos en una camara anecoica.
En 1951 el compositor y gran pensador norteamericano John Cage visitA la camara anecoica (una habitaciOn totalmente aislada, sin eco) de la universidad de Harvard para intentar confirmar la existencia del silencio. El resultado que obtuvo fue un tanto inesperado: Inmerso en aquel espacio no-resonante Cage escucho dos sonidos, uno grave, el de la circulacin sanguinea y otro agudo, el del sistema nervioso, deduciendo por tanto que el silencio no existe. Sin duda se trata de uno de los acontecimientos que ha marcado la historia, cuanto menos reciente, de la masica y las artes sonoras, primero por romper de alguna forma los historicos lmites entre musica, sonido y escucha y por otra parte porque fue el germen de una de las composiciones mas paradigmaticas de la historia de la musica: 4'33". Seguramente por estas mismas razones la experiencia anecoica (limitada principalmente al ambito cientofico) ha sido victima de un proceso de mitificacion, quizos excesivo, por parte de la comunidad de creadores sonoros.
Gracias a la empresa Labein-Tecnalia ubicada en Derio (Bizkaia) recientemente tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar dos camaras anecoicas, una dedicada a la medicien de campos electromagneticos (frecuencias altas) y otro a la de acusticos (frecuencias dentro de nuestro rango auditivo). Y de paso, tuvimos la oportunidad de comprobar los resultados obtenidos por Cage, asa como de desmitificar varias creencias relativas a estas camaras. Una interesante experiencia que hemos intentado resumir, mediante grabaciones sonoras en este programa. El significado esencial del silencio es la perdida de atencion.. el silencio no es acustico i es solamente el abandono de la intencion de oir. John Cage
Grabacion, entrevista y edicion: Xabier Erkizia
Locucion: Natalia Barberia
Agradecimientos: Javier Nuoez, Ibon (Labein-Tecnalia).
Original releases by HOTS RADIO!
Headphone listening recommended !!!
Full lenght audio: 30':00" Edition, Curating, Design by
Hots Radio! | X. E. | REEDL | SG.
Dalot is he curent project of Maria Peapadomanolaki. This is the re-issue of her first release originally pubblished in 2001 in cdr format. Four experimental audio works between instable electroacoustic ambient music, field recordings and visionary "cubist" sounddscapes poetry! This ep include a short mute aiku video! Full lenght audio: 25':00" Edition, Curating, Design M.P. | SG.
K11 / Pietro Riparbelli with INFLUX "HE TRIES TO COME TO US"
Metaphysical experimental audio research and paranormal investigations within the core of the former psychiatric hospital in Volterra (Pisa - Italy). Raw radio camera scanning of the ambiences and EVP field recordings session for a sesational journery around the edge of the dimensional veil. A unique audiovisual document.
Full lenght audio: 46 ":00"
Edition, Curating, Design and Manifactured by
Radical Matters - Edition / Label | SG.
"HE TRIES TO COME TO US" LIVE AT "CRONOSFERA" FESTIVAL.
Metaphysical experimental audio research and paranormal investigations within the core of the former psychiatric hospital in Volterra (Pisa - Italy). Raw radio camera scanning of the ambiences and EVP field recordings session for a sesational journery around the edge of the dimensional veil. A unique audiovisual document.
Edition, Curating, Design and Manifactured by
Radical Matters - Edition / Label | SG.
Incredible Avantgarde Psych Drone Music by Xavier Dubois & Yannick Franck. Visuals & Artworks by Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert. A must! The Winzip file include a Radical Matters package, ready to be print and assemblated. Burn a cd-r with this tracks and make yourself the package.
A re-edition, with a bonus track, of the first tape of the cult of the Goddess!
The Winzip file include a Radical Matters package, ready to be print and assemblated.
Burn a cd-r with this tracks and make yourself the package.
One year after the reprint as a free download and limited edition cd of the Trax 0983 Anthems project, Radical Matters reproposes with the same formula the first vinyl album produced by the atypical group/label TRAX in the distant year 1982. Following up a series of audiocassettes assembled with similar methodologies (Technodeath, Horrorbox, The Cop Killers, etc.), this pioneering album conceived and coordinated by Piermario Ciani synthesized brilliantly the idea of a “telematic” (and “modular”) music, composed and played through collaborations at distance, a concept explored before the age of Internet both by activists of the heterogeneous international “tape network” and by exponents of the “serious” electronic music scene, for example Pietro Grossi. As usual in this series of reprints started in 2007 with the double cd Rednight, Gianluca Becuzzi took care of the remastering from the original vinyl and added a new experiment in composition at distance (NewXtra). Nigel Ayers is the only participant of Xtra that has been involved again, creating thirty years later an ideal bridge between the two projects.
For the occasion, I immersed myself once again in the archive of memories, digging up some images and documents of the period (the Grand Trax 0184 box, in particular, contained some graphics originally created for a deluxe edition of the Xtra lp, never completed), added here as an extra bonus and testimony of the multimedial disposition of the whirl of products and events that TRAX got under way between 1981 and 1987.
Whatever happened to the original TRAX Units? Some friends (to whom this reprint is dedicated) have sadly come to an untimely end, others are still active in areas connected to the artistical and musical scene, even with high-profile results (like Massimo Giacon in the fields of design, comics and contemporary art, or Martin Hall, who has become in Denmark a cult writer and composer), yet others are today professors of high repute or hold public offices in the cultural sector (Martina, Ciullini). If you appreciated the unique mixture of bizarre new wave, darting elettropop, ferocious industrial-noise and minimalist ambient of Xtra, let us know, we will feel more motivated to retrieve a few other rare relics. Once more, my warmest thanks go to all the authors involved and to Gianluca Becuzzi and Sandro Gronchi, without whose genuine enthusiasm this work would have never seen the light of day.
Vittore Baroni, January 2011
Track List:
1 - Gamma Thetan (01<02<08<04)
2 - Strange Quack Quack (01<03<10)
3 - Di lui non si sa più nulla (01<03<07)
4 - Nastro rosso (01<03<06)
5 - Fishes (01<09<08)
6 - Combination (01<04<03)
7 - Ancora icone (01<09<08)
8 - Fanfare for the Meat Generation (01<07<04)
9 - Live Blister Bump (01<02<07<09)
10 - I Love Cancer (01<10<06<04)
Central Unit:
01 - Piermario Ciani: concept, organization & mix.
Peripheral Units:
02 - Vittore Baroni: text, voice, guitar, post office.
03 - Massimo Giacon: text, voice, noises, casiotone. With Spirocheta Pergoli: Fabio Beltrame (sax, bass), Enrico Friso (keyboards), Alberto Mineo (bass, guitar, guitar synth).
04 - Giancarlo Martina: guitar. With B.Sides: Bruce (vocals), Gian (drums), Spyke (keyboards), Momi (drums, base only).
05 - Martin Hall: tapes, noises (base only).
06 - Enrico Piva: tapes, keyboards, personal IBM.
07 - Nocturnal Emissions: Nigel Ayers (tapes, voice, violin), Caroline K (synth, voice).
08 - Daniele Ciullini: synth.
09 - De Rezke: Angelo Pretolani (text, voice, rhythmbox, casiotone), Roberto Rossini (synth, voice, casiotone), Marco Canepa (synth, sequencer).
10 - Ado Scaini: rhythmbox, synth (base only). With Ale (keyboards, base only), Plexy (synth, sequencer, base only), W. Gibson (bass, guitar), Radar (drums), Silence (bass), Blue Panther (maracas), Frankie Gasperoni (geometer).
Tracks 1-10 released by TRAX in September 1982 as a black vinyl LP in edtion of 1000 copies. Original cover art: Piermario Ciani & Cristina.
Thanks to Studio Diamine, Rap & Momi, Atelier De Montage, 001... Cancer, Centro UH!
In affectionate memory of Piermario, Caroline K and Enrico Piva.
(bonus) TRAX NEWXTRA 2011
11 - Gianluca Becuzzi / VV.AA. - Where Angels Can't Land (25’ 18”)
Central Unit: Gianluca Becuzzi: electroacoustic drones, sound objects, programming. Peripheral Units: Nigel Ayers - Nocturnal Emissions: handcrafted digital audio, Made in Cornwall. Simon Balestrazzi: prepared ukelin and tsymbaly, bird calls, analogue synths. Fabio Orsi: processed electric guitar. Pietro Riparbelli: transcoded short wave radio. Rod Summers/VEC Audio: vocals, vocal treatments, with Marie-Claire Krell (vocals).
Full lenght audio: 44 ":44"
Edition, Curating, Design and Manifactured by
Radical Matters - Edition / Label | SG.
RMEDL / K11 | Chthonian Music | THE OFFICIAL REISSUE
Score:
I - Mvndvs [Munth]
Francisco Lopez - field recording, acousmatic re-processing.
Seth Cluett - deep low frequencies sounds
Pietro Riparbelli - distorted organ, mixing
II - Katábasis
pt.I
Christina Kubisch - tuning forks, electromagnetic filtered
sounds recorded with an inductiveheadphone system, cello flageolett.
Francesco Brasini / Sevenguitars - guitars, amplifiers, enviromental feedbacks
Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
pt.II
L'Acephale - guitar, drum, voice
Utarm - power electronics, drones
Pietro Riparbelli - composition
pt.III [Epopteia]
Burial Hex - piano and effects
Andrea Marutti - sinth, drones, concrete sounds
Pietro Riparbelli - organ, voices, composition
pt.V
Luciano Maggiore - concrete sounds
Aderlating - concrete sounds, drones
Philippe Petit - concrete turntablism
Andrea Marutti - sinth
Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
RMEDL / K11 | Chthonian Music | THE OFFICIAL REISSUE
Reissue of an extremely limited 2010 release (x50 private copies). This multi-dimensional collaborative opera (audio installation and concept album) is a bridge between the conception of sound within the contemporary art scene, post-industrial culture and the avantgarde black metal musical scene. It focuses on creating a dialogic development between radical forms of concrete music, unorthodox sounds, conceptual arts and experimental recording practices of acoustic phenomena.
Radical Matters - Editions / Label | SG
Presents the hermetic multidimensional concept album
"CHTHONIAN MUSIC" :
Music composed, played and directed by K11 Pietro Riparbelli
Concept, ideation, site specific project direction, screenplay, score, texts, lyrics, sigils and design of the editions: RM-ED/L | Sandro Gronchi. 2 channels and multi channel audio composition, performing, mixing, mastering and real-time spatialization processing by Pietro Riparbelli. Acoustic installation by Sandro Gronchi and Pietro Riparbelli. Recording sessions: Francisco López, Christina Kubisch, Massimo Bartolini, Seth Cluett, Y.E.R.M.O., Francesco Brasini / Seven Guitars, Luciano Maggiore, Gianluca Becuzzi, Andrea Marutti, Philippe Petit , Deadwood, Burial Hex, Aderlating, Utarm, Nordvargr, L'Acephale. This conceptual album is a 2 channel stereo hi-fi transposition of a related site specific multi-channel acoustic installation set, based on the sound spatialization system I.M.E.A.S.Y, both developped from the hermetic multidimensional sound art project Chthonian Music, conceived by RMEDL to be performed in an ancient Etruscan hypogeum sited in Cecina (Italy), during the spring solstice (Ante Diem Duodecimum Kalendas Apriles) within the programmatic-conceptual event "Metasound – Independent Curatorial Experiences in ntemporary Art: from the object up to the event: sound art, multimedia and practice of the art of listening",an hypermedial site-specific project, cured by SG as RMEDL, installed within the archaeological park of Cecina, in the core of the ancient Tuscia.
This conceptual album and the related audio installation are musically composed by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 who playing organ, voices, drum and directis the recording sessions of the acoustic sources produced by the previous mentioned artists, expecially conceived by the authors for this project. This multidimensional collaborative opera is a bridge between the conception of sound within the contemporary art scene, the postindustrial culture and the avantgarde black metal musical scene, focusing on creating a dialogic development between radical forms of concrete music, unorthodox sounds, conceptual arts and experimental recordings practices of the acoustic phenomenas.This project is based on the study of the territory where Cecina stands today, already known in Etruscan age with the name of Kaikne or Kaikna and was inhabited in Roman times, when an imperial personality, the consul Albino Cecina who was a descendant of an ancient Etruscan family that came from Volterra (Velathri), ordered the construction of a villa, the ruins of which are still visited in San Vincenzino.
The surrounding area of Cecina, knew a long period of decline, which began with the decline of the Etruscan civilization and marked during the Roman domination. However in medieval times the name of the Tuscan town was quoted by Dante Alighieri (Inf. XIII, 7). The peculiar state of re-veiling of the historical roots of Cecina town, began in the Roman construction plant of the Albini Villa by the department of archaeological sciences of the University of Pisa (in this contest stands the discovery of a headless statue in Egyptian alabaster that represents Isis). It becomes the right condition for the staging of meta-curator project Metasound through which a witness is shown, though as a part of a state of the art research on aesthetic trans-operative promoting by RM-ED/L. The choice of the roman cistern and its adjacent mysteric tunnels, as the core of the catabasis experience intrinsec in the concept of Chthonian Music. and as sound-chamber of the related acoustic installation, comes from the study on the symbolic meaning of places of worship, that was developed in Etruscan age - civilization that first settled in the adjacent grounds to the Cecina river. The re-veiling of the etruscan settlement, roman villa and medioeval cemetery, in the small park of San Vincenzino, opens to the possibility of considering the reading of the archaeological sites in their likely original function of sacred hypogeum. The cavity of the cistern, thus, becomes a possible reuse of an earlier site of Etruscan origine, with a more likely symbolic function of a place consecrated to the worship of Chthonic Deities. Demeter-Persephone (Phersipnai) was the goddess which was based the religion of the Mysteries, imported by the Etruscans in Italy.
Kidnapped by Hades and carried in the realm of the underworld, becaming the queen of the hell through his ritual death. Demeter, the goddess of the earth got that Persephone / Phersipnai reigned during the winter months and in the remaining months could return to earth, whose myth is the awakening of the soul and its cyclical path of death and transfiguration. Delving into the dark recesses of the earth, meant to open a gate to a supernatural dimension. Tunnels and mazes of paths represented the symbolic difficult journey of the soul towards a higher life. Exit from the bowels of the land, from the darkest recesses of the earth and the human soul, represents the rebirth of the soul to a higher level of living. The annual return of Phersipnai on earth among the living, coincided with the beginning of spring, and on this occasion were celebrated the Lesser Mysteries, or the second Birth. On this occasion, wizards with snakes twisted on the arms, moved at the flickering light of torches in long orgiastic processions (Nuktélia) that ended with a search of the queen Phersipnai.Hetrvria Hermetica.
Audio Score:
Score:
I - Mvndvs [Munth] Francisco Lopez - field recording, acousmatic re-processing. Seth Cluett - deep low frequencies sounds Pietro Riparbelli - distorted organ, mixing
II - Katábasis
pt.I Christina Kubisch - tuning forks, electromagnetic filtered
sounds recorded with an inductiveheadphone system, cello flageolett. Francesco Brasini / Sevenguitars - guitars, amplifiers, enviromental feedbacks Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
pt.II L'Acephale - guitar, drum, voice Utarm - power electronics, drones Pietro Riparbelli - composition
pt.III [Epopteia] Burial Hex - piano and effects Andrea Marutti - sinth, drones, concrete sounds Pietro Riparbelli - organ, voices, composition
pt.V Luciano Maggiore - concrete sounds Aderlating - concrete sounds, drones Philippe Petit - concrete turntablism Andrea Marutti - sinth Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition
Julien Ottavi "Pieces for guitar"
Julien Ottavi (aka FORMANEX, aka THE NOISER) is part of the sound/activist collective APO 33 in Nantes, has moved recently to London where he has set up up a media lab in the artist space Area 10. APO 33 produced the GNU/Linux audio-media distribution Apodio, which is the one that Julien uses. Ottavi is likely the most intense laptop performer, always ready for new challenges and finding new ways of experimenting and this new work is a continuation of his extreme engagement in sound.
Full lenght: 46:00 minutes.
Edition Design by: RMEDL | SG.
Recorded live at Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main, on april 8th 2009.
Performance curated and organized by the Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Neue Musik e.V., featured in the events series "Mind the Gap!".
4-channel live recording by Marc Behrens.
A SHORT TERM EFFECT [A.S.T.E.] "A short term effect"
A little jewel of golden spiritual sounds. Experimental low-fi organ Drone music, in the key of ancient pagan ceremonies: few short hymns to trascend shapeless visions of mortality in empathic devotion. For lover of early dark-era's "feelings", passed through melodic splinters of translucent brightness
Track List:
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Full lenght CDR audio: 20":00"
Edition, Curating, Design and Manifactured by: RMEDL | SG.
Metaphysical experimental audio research and paranormal investigations. EVP, frequencies meters and recivers devices, field recording and electroacoustic manipulation for a sesational journery around the edge of the dimensional veil. A unique audiovisual document based on self-recorded psychic experiences and rare unconventional found footage.
Full lenght audio: 46 ":00"
Edition, Curating, Design and Manifactured by
Radical Matters - Edition / Label | SG.
"The Hotter Me" is a sort of homecoming into the dark erotic and mysterious atmosphere of "The Other Me". An exclusive realised of Six Studio for RM-ED/L free web editions. The Winzip file include a still wallpaper.
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