We have two wonderful news: Lucio Capece‘s ELEMENTAL PULSE will be performed at the Metz Pompidou Center, 25th June 2021 AND at Centro Cultural Kirchner, Festival Ruido, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 26th-27th September 2021. See you there!
“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.”
We are KISS THE FROG – a new music agency run by Joanna John in Tromsø, Norway. The agency’s profile is not entirely focused on specific genres, (although it sympathizes with experimental electro–acoustics, contemporary music, noise and jazz-punk) but on the specificity of experiences offered by the artists on our roster. We are proud to represent:Kasper T. Toeplitz, Angélica Castelló, Lucio Capece, Anton Ponomarev, Andrzej Karałow, Anthony Pateras, Antoine Chessex, Burkhard Stangland soon many more great artists who are on their way to join.
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Leading Australian contemporary music composer A. Pateras yields a stunning, phantasmic spectralist work for tape and live players, recorded in 2019 at the 17th Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Pseudacusis is the follow-up to Pateras’ work on Sunn 0)))’s Life Metal and Judith Hamann’s Music For Cello and Humming, and features the latter artist among his Tape Septet recordings, which provide the bed for its live performance iteration.
The deep sub tremble of 2 creative minds! This shit is FOR REAL! A super-intense and cleansing audio-bath of a new era! In an extremely great and creative mix, these two Russian masterminds take no prisoners! I LOVE this! Radical brutal poetry and in your-face outer space rock! This is an antidote of a massacre – this brilliant BEAST is of healing qualities. Released on Utech Records. This is a radical new approach and attack on all previous attempts of making noise. Face melting beauty! – Mats Gustafsson
Umwelt is a filigree elision of explorative electro-acoustic disciplines, forming the first collaborative release between two leading lights of avant-garde and experimental music. Acoustic alchemist Lucio Capece, sought after by everyone from Mika Vainio to Vlaislav Dely for his inventive talents, meets Ben Vida, one of computer music’s most interesting composers, in a suite of liminal and surreally absorbing works.
This album aims to show a different approach to the genre of opera by combining different stylistic and technical influences. The mystery play character of De invitatione mortis concerns primarily the creation of a sound environment whose center is occupied by the word, leading the course of the entire metaopera, which can be perceived as a ritual. The album is also an attempt to address the issue of merging various genres from the borderline of classical, improvised, and electronic music.
You may know Kasper. T. Toeplitz from his work, performing with bass guitar and laptop and usually something that is quite loud? You may not know, or perhaps forgotten, that he started as a “young contemporary composer” before meeting up with Zbigniew Karkowski and a bunch of Japanese noisemakers. On this CD we have three examples of compositions from the earlier days in which someone plays instruments along with live electronics. (Vital Weekly)
Avant Joik is Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (vocals and live electronics) and Katarina Barruk (vocals/joik) with live visuals by Matti Aikio, and blends joik and vocal experimentation with an electronic, experimental palette, evoking the eerie, contemplative atmospheres of the North, while the turmoil and distortion of an untamed, forceful nature lurks beneath.
Live in Bergen is Avant Joik’s debut album and was released on Bergen Kunsthall April 2021. The album consists of three collaborative compositions by Ratkje and Barruk. Aikio’s visuals from the concert feature in the cover design of the new album.
We start with a great news! Album De invitatione mortis composed by our artist, Andrzej Karałow with Maciej Papierski’s libretto is nominated to Fryderyk Award next to Henryk Górecki, Aleksander Nowak, Olga Tokarczuk, Józef Zeidler and Stanisław Moniuszko! Congratulations!
