AUTHOR: RMEDL / K11 / | WITH AAVV : / ANDREA MARUTTI / LUCIANO MAGGIORE / BURIAL HEX / PHILIPPE PETIT / Y.E.R.M.O. / SETH CLUETT / CHRISTINA KUBISCH / FRANCISCO LOPEZ / ADERLATING / GIANLUCA BECUZZI / UTARM / MASSIMO BARTOLINI / DEADWOOD / L'ACEPHALE / NORDVARGR / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK / SEVENGUITARS

TITLE: CHTHONIAN MUSIC

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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.IV
Gianluca Becuzzi - crencrete sounds, drones
Massimo Bartolini - concrete sounds / field recordings
Francesco Brasini / Sevenguitars - guitars, amplifiers, enviromental feedbacks
Pietro Riparbelli - voice, drum, organ, composition

pt.V
Luciano Maggiore - concrete sounds
Aderlating - concrete sounds, drones
Philippe Petit - concrete turntablism
Andrea Marutti - sinth
Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition

III - Nuktèlia
Nordvargr - drones, concrete sounds
Deadwood - drones, concrete sounds
L'Acephale - concrete sounds, guitar, violin, drum, piano Y.E.R.M.O. - concrete music, drones
Pietro Riparbelli - organ, composition




Full lenght audio: 80':'00''
Concept, screenplay, installation design, compiled, editing curating and manufacture: RMEDL|SG

AUTHOR: DARK MATTER

TITLE: Mo.N.D

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DARK MATER
Mo.N.D

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.

AUTHOR: TELE.S.THERION

TITLE: NATURE UNVEILED

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TELE.S.THERION
NATURE UNVEILED

Music for loudspeakers, designed as a polyphonic projection for multi-channel sound-spatialization's systems, for an immersive deep listening experience. With this key, each Tele.s.therion releases, it's designed as Acousmatic Device. The compact discs listed here are conceived to be played in a double Hi-Fi system, for a private sound installation.

This conceptual album is based on the album of Current 93 "Nature Unveiled" (Ach Golgotha - Maldoror Is Dead;  The Mystical Body Of Christ InChorazaim - The Great In The Small) by L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords, 1984.

A k o u s m a t i k o i :
SG : Concept design, PK (psychokinetic) recording sessions based on prepared electric-bass,
amplified within environmental feedback system, during metaphonic field-recording sessions.
K11 : Instrumental transcommunication actions with short-wave radio receivers.
Exploration of high-range distortions dimensions. Medianic chants.

Scores:

I
- pt.I
- pt.II
- pt.III
- pt.IV

II


Full lenght audio: 66':'06''
Concept design, editing and manufacture: RMEDL | SG

AUTHOR: JULIEN OTTAVI

TITLE: PIECES FOR GUITAR

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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.
 

AUTHOR: RMEDL

TITLE: GOETIA

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presents:
GOETIA


The Art of forced locked grooves in metaphisical experiments.
Improvised sessions, made using a ephemera custom-turntable and a unique edit scratched vinyl played in forced locked grooves, Environmental microphone feedback, mixer. Recording and mastering with an hard-disk-recorder. Recording setup: mixer and microphones in a large room, during necromantical sound operations.

Ttrack list:
I - II - III - IV - V

Full lenght audio: 25:00 min.
Digital and analogic photos  by Andrea Sozzi - www.andreasozzi.com

Concept design, sound object design, playing, recording, editing & Manufacture: RMEDL | SG

AUTHOR: RMEDL

TITLE: MACABRE RITES

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presents:
MACABRE RITES


The Art of forced locked grooves! Black Metal meet Noise experimentalism, on turnatble, speackers and prepared vynil played in forced locked grooves!

RECORDING SESSION .:.1.:.2.:.4.:.5.:.6.:.7.:.8.:.9.:.
Improvvised music sessions made using a custom turntable with 2 stylus + a preparted vinyl played in forced locked grooves, 2 distorsion pedals fx, microphones and custom speacker, enviromental feedback, 2 mixers. Recorded on PC.

RECORDING SESSION .:.3
Improvvised music session made with cassette manipulations (using a 2 cassette walkman): playing simoulatneously, in fast forwards and rewind mode, both the sides of the original Black Metal demo-tape "Macabre Rites", recorded by Macabre in 1986 (Macabre: SG -  bass and vocals, P. Riparbelli - drums, PF Pompizzi - Guitars). Recorded on PC.

Ttrack list:
I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII - IX

Full lenght audio: 38:00 min.
Photo by Andrea Sozzi - www.andreasozzi.com
B/W analogic photo, hand-printed and digitally threated.

Concept design, sound objects, playing, recording, editing & Manufacture: RMEDL | SG