Compositions

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  • al penè

    Claudio Parodi

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    Claudio Parodi has a classical training as a pianist. Since some years, he plays self-built or self-modified electronics and, more recently, non-western reeds and selected percussions.
    Claudio Parodi Prima del terzo 1 - vrúah 4'04" 2 - Elohím 14'04" 3 - merahèfet 17'04" 4 - al penè 7'31" 5 - hammàim 14'04" total running time 57'27" all music by Claudio Parodi (SACEM) One of my favourite walk is in the harbour of my hometown, because of the sound brought by the wind. For long time I have day-dreamt about including that sound in my own music. I got to the point reading the poem Prologo al buio by Erri De Luca (from Opera sull'Acqua e altre poesie, Einaudi 2002). In the poem there is a Hebraic quote from Genesis, before the third verse (hence the title of my composition, the Italian for "before the third"): "vrúah Elohím merahèfet al penè hammàim", that means, translating from the Italian translation by De Luca, "and the wind of God breaths on the faces of the waters". The music was already there, it was just a matter of recording it. Nothing against pure field recording. But, as the inspiration came from the very root of Hebrew culture, I felt to go deeper. My dear friend Prof. Maria Rosa Montiani taught me everything of the very little I know about Hebrew culture. I planned five field recordings, one for each Hebrew word (in Hebrew, "al penè" is written as a single word). Referring to the map of the harbor, the recorder was placed five times from top right to bottom left, imitating the direction of Hebraic writing. The date and the length of the field recordings were chosen following the value given by qabbaláh to each word. As an example, vrúah is 4, so the first field recording (four minutes plus two seconds fade in and two seconds fade out) happened on the fourth hour of the fourth day of Cheshvàn, the second month of Hebrew calendar, that is, on October the 20th, 2012, 23.16, and so on for five months. The field recordings were later re-shaped in studio imitating the Ashkenaze ductus of the letters of the words: panning for left to right and reverb to no reverb for top to bottom. Claudio Parodi, March the 15th, 2013 Composed from Novenber the 19th to December the 19th, 2012. Field recording by Claudio Parodi from October the 20th, 2012 to February the 25th, 2013. Zoom H2 Handy Recorder. Field recording executive producer: Margaret Dumont. Studio recording by Claudio Parodi and Paolo Valenti at Riserva Sonora www.riservasonora.com on March the 6th and the 12th, 2013. Lexicon Concert Hall reverb. contacts: cla.parodi@libero.it http://myspace.com/claudioparodi www.facebook.com/claudio.parodi.313
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    Claudio Parodi has a classical training as a pianist. Since some years, he plays self-built or self-modified electronics and, more recently, non-western reeds and selected percussions.
    Uploaded: 14.09.2013
  • sound system_system sound v_ the humboldt edit Teil 3

    Peter Szely

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    SZELY
    Sound System - System Sound_ the Humboldt edit So wie einst Alexander von Humboldt sammelt Peter Szely Artefakte aus aller Welt und bereitet sie für uns Daheimgebliebene auf. Szely bringt uns aber keine getrockneten Schmetterlinge sondern Soundaufnahmen von urbanen, alltäglichen Situationen aus Japan, Mexiko, Europa, und den USA. Sie bilden das Ausgangsmaterial für “The Humbolt edit”.
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    Uploaded: 12.09.2013
  • sound system_system sound v_ the humboldt edit Teil 2

    Peter Szely

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    SZELY
    Sound System - System Sound_ the Humboldt edit So wie einst Alexander von Humboldt sammelt Peter Szely Artefakte aus aller Welt und bereitet sie für uns Daheimgebliebene auf. Szely bringt uns aber keine getrockneten Schmetterlinge sondern Soundaufnahmen von urbanen, alltäglichen Situationen aus Japan, Mexiko, Europa, und den USA. Sie bilden das Ausgangsmaterial für “The Humbolt edit”.
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    Uploaded: 12.09.2013
  • sound system_system sound v_ the humboldt edit Teil 1

    Peter Szely

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    szely
    Sound System - System Sound_ the Humboldt edit So wie einst Alexander von Humboldt sammelt Peter Szely Artefakte aus aller Welt und bereitet sie für uns Daheimgebliebene auf. Szely bringt uns aber keine getrockneten Schmetterlinge sondern Soundaufnahmen von urbanen, alltäglichen Situationen aus Japan, Mexiko, Europa, und den USA. Sie bilden das Ausgangsmaterial für “The Humbolt edit”. Es sind allesamt Personal Sounscapes auf Zeit, und aus der Vergangenheit
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    Uploaded: 12.09.2013
  • Udon

    Luc, Hanneuse

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    Luc Hanneuse is a sound engineer, sound designer. He lives in Brussels in Belgium. He is interested in many aspects of sound.
    A tasty soundscape of Udon (japanese pasta). Recording in my kitchen.
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    Luc Hanneuse is a sound engineer, sound designer. He lives in Brussels in Belgium. He is interested in many aspects of sound.
    Uploaded: 11.09.2013
  • Pámparios

    Daniela Falcon

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    Grew in Southern Mexico, born in 1991, she is musical composition student from Superior Music School in National Centre of Arts in Mexico City. Since childhood was involved in antropological researches, performing and visual arts and music. Has colaborated in cinema sound designs, sound recording and compositions, creating and playing for acustical music with different kinds of instruments and styles, writing poetry and stories, making videoarts, workshops related to body and sound, translations and photography.
    Soundscape based in samples collected in Wirikuta. Wirikuta was the place of world creation according to Wixarica (huicholes in Spanish) culture, it is located in San Luis Potosí desert northwest of Mexico covering 193,000 hectares. Pámparios means thank you in this proto-nahua language. One of their most important millenary legends narrate that in Atlantic Ocean’s profundities blue deer was born, when all was darkness, it made a pilgrimage to find light in the east, arriving to Wirikuta , sacrificed itself and became hikuri (peyote) for being light and heal. Recording people daily activities, music, an old man who doesn't had a leg and an eye who worked in trail tracks when was young, a crying kid, some girls calling in a cell phone saying an adress for arrive, a woman who sang after two years of no rain, rain, rivers formed by the storms, rays, old and recent watermills, steps, swings, the train (where sometimes are inmigrants from Mexico and South American crossing the country for arrive to United States). Now this place have many troubles with foreign mining companies and indigeans and concerned people are making everything possible for stop it. In this soundscape I'm trying to express some of that teaching that leave to my experience this place.
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    Grew in Southern Mexico, born in 1991, she is musical composition student from Superior Music School in National Centre of Arts in Mexico City. Since childhood was involved in antropological researches, performing and visual arts and music. Has colaborated in cinema sound designs, sound recording and compositions, creating and playing for acustical music with different kinds of instruments and styles, writing poetry and stories, making videoarts, workshops related to body and sound, translations and photography.
    Uploaded: 11.09.2013

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