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press release - Output 01



"OUTPUT 01" livesets, interviews and videos from the sintesi festival's first edition

Archivio comes from the necessity to transfer on medium the activity of Sintesi and to keep a record of the festival’s development. Output 01 is the first in a series of multimedial archives that wants to tell Sintesi’s history, an audio-video-space memory. For this reason, and for the interest we have in these elements’ possible relations, the recording techniques that we used, reproduce exactly the acoustics of the venue where the performances took place (S. Severo al Pendino’s church). The CD’s audio material is the result of a perfectly calibrated mix, made from the artists’ editing, a live recording from the mixing console and another recording coming from a microphone kept in the middle of the audience. The effect that we wanted and that we obtained is that of three dimensional sound that recreates exactly the festival’s venue ambient. The cd includes a rom track with images, interviews, and videos that documents the first edition of sintesi festival.

track 01 - leafcutter john - 15' 03"

John Burton, aka Leafcutter John, born in West Yorkshire, originally wanted to be a painter, and studied at Norwich School Of Art. Burton was also a songwriter, spending his spare time composing folk songs on a guitar. Then one day, he bought a PC, to type his university assignments. That’s when he discovered the possibilities of electronic music. That was four years ago… At the time, Burton didn’t own any electronic music records, but, fortunately, some of his friends did. A crash course in contemporary artists and different forms of music later, he was ready to release a first EP, Concourse, then, a few months later, an album, on Mike Paradinas’ very own label, Planet Mu. From the intro of the first track of Microcontact, you know you’ve stumbled across something unusual. Heavily relying on machines, Burton relies even more on the inspiration he gets from environmental noises and acoustic sounds recorded in all sorts of different places or situation, or during sonic workshops he organises in art galleries. When asked about people who inspire him, Burton cites Chasm, Main or Richard D James, as well as Pierre Henry, Karlheinz Stockhausen or Pierre Schaeffer. And, listening to Microcontact, the analogy between Leafcutter John and the musique concrète movement is quite obvious.

track 2 - Retina.it - 19' 04"

Retina.it is Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono whose minimalist electronica sounds right at home on Hefty, though the pair record far from the label's Chicago base. Recording in the Italian city of Pompei, which was destroyed by the Vesuvio volcano, Retina.it claim their music is highly influenced by working in the midst of such history. Pompei's experimental scene is practically non-existent which makes the American release of "Volcano Waves" that much more important. Those familiar with acts on the Hefty label such as Slicker and Mondii will certainly pick up on Retina.it's vibe - improvised material edited into a final composition of minimal electronica that is barely there at times - seemingly imagined sounds that divide and conquer your frontal lobe. The album's title certainly makes reference to the duo's locale and it's this setting which makes Retina.it's music that much more mysterious and compelling, as if bringing an element of nature to these wholly manufactured proceedings.

track 3 - terrae - 16' 12"

Terrae is 30 Years old. He started to play musik since 1977 using his grandmother piano. After 8 years of classical and jazz musik studies, he decided to try other instruments as guitar, bass guitar and drums, such as djambe and magreb tarabouca, finally approding to electronic music in the 1988 founding an electro-wave band punk oriented. The House revolution spreaded his orizon projecting him into the dub space in the early 90’s when deep collaboration have been performed with other neapolitan dub and tekno bands of the italian rave scene in Rome, Milan and Boulogne. Terra is now searching new sounds don’t caring about melodies but frequencies.



release:Output 01
label: Sintesi Archivio