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Presenti successivi - Elio Martusciello
Evidence of things unseen - Antonio Ferreira
Presenti successivi
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
(T.S. Eliot, The hollow men)
this work was awarded at the 30th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Bourges 2003 and is part of that cycle of works that characterised my production from aesthetics of the machine (1999) to date. This production is focused (more or less intensely) on the analysis of the electronic devices, in what they autonomously are. How to sayŠ as much as possible beyond the ³instrumental² logic of technologies, with all their burden of unexpressional, mechanism, fracture, noise, chaos. Shortly, an exploration within that particular ³discourse² about the man-machine relationship which I called in some of my essays ³the aesthetics of the machine².
(E. Martusciello) The work was realised at the composers studio.
Evidence of things unseen
Electroacoustic or acousmatic music is an established aesthetic that one can define as admitting any sound as potential compositional material, frequently referring to acoustic phenomena and situations from everyday life. Most fundamentally of all it relies on perceptual realities rather than conceptual speculation to unlock the potential for muical discourse and musical structure from the inherent properties of the sound objects themselves. Using both the reconstructing powers of our memory and the tension between reproduction and abstraction, acousmatic music still has a critical potential regarding our aural relation to the world. Evidence of things unseen is both an aural reminder of the evocational power of sound in a society too much flooded by images and a gentle critique of the consequent reduced time span attention. This is in part motivated by the barrage of sound bites produced by audio visual industry - an industry that uses much the same technology and the same techniques used to produce this piece. Playing on this slight irony, this piece uses dramatic gestures, pitch distraction tactics and virtual space, an invitation to go from "this" side of the acousmatic curtain into music, from embodied experiences into intentional, poetic experience.
Elio Martusciello (Ita)He is an autodidact musician and composer. He teaches Electronic music and Electroacoustics composition in the classes of Music and new technology at the Conservatory of Cagliari.
His works have been awarded in many international competitions ("Grands Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique" Bourges - "Luigi Russolo" Varese, - "Phonurgia nova" Arles, and "CIMESP".
Presentations, concerts and conferences in other international festivals, universities, associations and reserch centres include: GRM (Paris), Futura (Crest & Lyon), Les Musiques (Marseilles), Spaziomusica (Cagliari), Synthèse (Bourges), CRM (Rome), Henie Onstad Arts Centre (Oslo), PANaroma (São Paolo do Brasil), Connecticut College (New London-USA), Centre d'études et de recherche Pierre Schaeffer (Paris), Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (Seoul), Soundscapes Symposium and Zeppelin (Barcelona), MM&T (Milan), Inventionen 2000-Berliner Festival Neuer Musik (Berlin), Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Trans'électroacoustique, Project'son Festival (Marseilles), Musiques Vivantes / GMVL "Aujourd'Hui Les Musiques du Futur" (Lyon), microOnde (Montessu), Rien à voir (Montréal) a.o.
In 1993 he was composer in residence at the "Centre National de Création Musicale" - "GMEM" (Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille), at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), and at the "Césaré (Studio de création musicale)". He is also a Live Improvising Musician and has worked with musicians such as: Eugene Chadbourne, Mathieu Chamagne, Ellen Christie, Mike Cooper, Chris Cutler, Michel Doneda, Pierre Favre, Wolfgang Fuchs, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Christian Malfray, Jean-Marc Montera, Richard Nunns, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, and others.
He is a founding member of IATO (musicians collectives), IXEM (Italian eXperimental Electronic Music) and BOWINDO (new experimental italian label).
He is a regular member of the improvising group OSSATURA (with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci), of the interactive duo SCHISMOPHONIA (with Mike Cooper), and he is a member of the new improvising electro acoustic group TAXONOMY (with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega).
António Ferreira (P)
António Ferreira (1963) was born in Angola of portuguese parents. Back in Portugal, he studied engineering and become aware of his interest in music and composition using computers. He formalizes this interest by attending Sonology in 1986 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He made several concerts with real time electronics in The Hague, Amsterdam (STEIM), Den Bosch, Cologne and Lisbon and presented his electroacoustic compositions in several national (Musica VIVA) and international festivals and presentations (France-Paris, Bourges, Besançon, Sweden ICMC2002, Singapore ICMC2003, Norway, England SEA03; Sonic Arts Festival, Denmark, Italy, Hungary, Poland, USA). He worked also as an expert in noise pollution and bioacoustics.
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