ELEMENTAL PULSE

Elemental Pulse is Lucio Capece’s solo project and the title of a second album by the Argentinian musician released on Intonema in 2019 after 2013’s Music for Flying and Pendulating Speakers.
Taking un/natural silence as his starting point, Capece continues his research into the perception of sound and music, both as a listener and performer. The work features three new compositions, using diverse sound sources including slide saxophone, analog synthesizers, effects and field recordings, with which Capece crafts a vast array of textures, from drone canvases and sounds of nature to rhythmic loops and beats.

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Lucio Capece: composition, slide saxophone, analog synthesizer, analog filter, sequencer, sine tones, bass clarinet, field recordings etc.

Analog electronics (synthesizer, filter, sequencer, ring modulator, equalizer in feedback), slide saxophone, recordings (late night lake at Sokołowsko in Poland, bass clarinet), sine waves. Ultra violet lights, three mini speakers suspended from helium balloons covered with ultra violet powder.

“As a development of the projects based in sharing perception experiences that I have been working on since 2010, Elemental Pulse takes as a departure point the idea that in silence, and even more in silence in the context of nature, we can consider what we hear as a continuous sound, what is usually called a drone. A drone that can be analyzed in it’s spectral components, obtaining frequencies that in certain close ranges can produce beatings, that combined can introduce us to the primal experience of pulse, and then to rhythm.

The starting material of the piece is a recording made in a forest in Poland, in front of a small lake, during the night, between 11 pm and 3 am. The drone is the silence that I perceived that night. The most silent experience I had in the context of open nature.
This recording, offered to the audience in the third section of the piece, acts as source material for specific Sine Tones that are diffused through 3 mini speakers that move over the head of the audience, hanging from helium balloons pushed by small propellers. The first section of the piece is based on a combined improvised set using
a slide saxophone and an analog synthesizer that take the chosen frequencies as material for real time creation.
In the second section frequencies in a close range are selected in order to make concrete the experience of rhythm genesis through the combination of tones.

Piece premiered at Studio 8 in Berlin, on the 10th of September 2017. And performed in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017, in the context of the Festival “Punto de Encuentro” organized by the Asociation of Electro acoustic Music of Spain. It’s 50 minutes long.

Listen to it on the Cashmere Radio.