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Audioselfportrait:
This
work joins two fundamental parts of my "heard life":
harmony (i.e. common music), which is rendered here with the
piano and its chords, and those sounds (noises) that I listen to
(so frequently that they often disappear).
The work begins with the typical sounds of the awakening (opening
the windows, preparing green tea). Then there are the sounds
from the city and the landscape, and then the sounds made by
consumer electronic devices (computer, cellular phone, CD player,
TV set, VCR) so important in my life.
The harmony represents the moment of the artistic creation
during a day. It begins with a piano improvisation (the first
piano recording is the real moment in which I composed the
harmony). The second piano part is like it's coming from another
room: it's the (important) moment in which I sing the harmony in
my mind during the day, giving it a structure, a sense. Then,
after the pause with the PC starting, the "rational"
melody begins; it's created with the computer and each sound is chosen with extreme accuracy, without
forgetting the "glitch" aesthetic (represented by
"disturbed" strings). The rational part is in the
second half of the song (=of the day), this is to render the
fact that I usually work at night.
Get the song
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