music and video by elio martusciello (2009)
voice Mike Cooper
dedicated to Walt Whitman
think in an other light (molecular light song)
music and video by elio martusciello (2009)
voice Mike Cooper
dedicated to Maria Zambrano
thanks to Rossella Prezzo
short story
elio martusciello (2009)
short story: nicola cogliolo
balanced (dedicated to Maria Zambrano)
elio martusciello (2008)
to extend for video, laptop and orchestra - part I
by elio martusciello.
2007-07-05 Cordoba - Argentina
audiovisual installation - to extend the visibility (excerpt)
audiovisual installation by elio martusciello
elio martusciello: aesthetics of the machine (excerpt)
The video-musical research that I have undertaken goes beyond the man’s "point of view-listening" to experiment what could be defined as the machine’s "point of view-listening" (aesthetics of the machine). Therefore, an aesthetics that privileges an "other-feel", the meeting with the "outerness", the utopia, an opportunity for discovery, growth and extension of man’s possibilities.
The audio frequency field constitutive of this work is out of the possibilities of our perceptive system; in fact it’s placed in the area of ultrasounds (up 20kHz) and of infrasounds (down 16Hz). For all the duration of the work, these sounds are generate at the maximum volume available for the digital systems (0dB). Therefore, this compositions is totally full, saturated, dynamicless, with a volume level always coincident with "fortissimo" (classical notation), from which the area available by the human perception is just excluded. What remains at our hearing? Only silence? All that we perceive in this work, instead, results to entirely be the discard, the drift, the limits of the technology and of our auditory apparatus, all that springs out of the interferences, from the collisions, the clashes of these iper-frequencies, their resultants, the difficulties and the noises that the system of sound-reproduction (amplifiers, loudspeaker, filters, etc.) produces, from the surrounding space (objects that vibrate), our same auditory apparatus and body (often is not our ear but our body, in his totality, that feels and vibrate).
Therefore…a pure “objective” sound (a simple “sinusoidal wave”), fully inorganic, inexpressive, beyond-human, a sharp, metallic object, that can also hurt, a totally “extraneous” sound (a limit-experience, sometimes toxic, harmful…but not only for the men but also for the machine).
Well, all that we listen in this work is the meeting point between man, his technological extension and the "outside" of our "feel"; an arduous way that carries us in a dark zone, perturbless (extraneous and family at the same time), outside of our mind and of our thought (which is also its interior).
The video is not a romantic counterpoint of the sound but only a technological sinesthesia (physic of the phase)
elio martusciello: naturalis electronica
concert for orchestra, computer and video -
akous(ma)chinebodies_orchestra
(montréal/canada 2006)
first taxonomy performance (IATO). elio play guitar and electronic devices, graziano play laptop, roberto play sampling and signal processing
Studio Brutus/Citrullo Int./Taxonomy: H2O
H2O is a composition interpreting the theme of audiovisual crossover, thanks to a stratified execution of progressive passages: from video shooting, passing to a rewrite in digital graphics, finally focusing the interactive feedback with the shadows form of sound produced by the musicians. The visual flow develops and integrates with the music, producing a decidedly new, electro-digital, highly hibryd. H2O was born from a meeteng between a group of designers, programmers and videomakers with the music group Taxonomy.
Citrullo International s.r.l.: Luciano Barcaroli, Carlo Hintermann, Gerardo Panichini and Daniele Villa (documentaries, audiovisual events, cinema, television, multimedia)
Studio Brutus: (animation, game design, web design, video broadcast, graphic design)
Taxonomy: Elio Martusciello, Roberto Fega, Graziano Lella (electroacustic composition and improvisation music).
H2O has been selectioned and presented in the following festivals: Torino Film festival 2006, Roma Film festival 2006, Live!iXem 06, Netmage 07, Optronica 2007, Sonar Film festival 2007, Cyborg Film festival 2007, Fluid 2007, IMMArts TechArt07, Annecy Animation Film festival 2007, Italiani Indipendenti 2007, HIPERSONICA 2007, REMIXED 2007, aniMOTION festival 2007, MusicAL 2007, SHOOT OFF.
real-time audiovisual performance (solo improvisation) with PD (pure data).
1 March 2009 - Paris
elio martusciello: to extend the visibility
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In a limited Edition of 2000 numbered copies this DVD comes in a threefold art DVD case with a full colour 48 page book offereng substantial exegetical essays (in English and Italian) by Tim Hodgkinson and Sebastiano Giacobello and additional artwork by Ale Sordi and Ester Curcio. It s is a fully integrated electronic composition/animation exploring and aestheticising the contemporary fact of the digital unification of visual and aural data. It is also a meditation on the earth, its fragility, order, chaos, art and hubris. In six explorations, using all manner of digital processing techniques Elio animates abstract sequences of imagery derived from satellite pictures of our beleaguered planet and a mixture of concrete and synthetic - always highly composed and processed - sound. It is neither a film with soundtrack nor a composition with pictures but rather a contribution to a still unfamiliar medium, a rather demanding medium. Essentially it is a domestic installation, or the C21 multimedia version of a small print edition.
Here’s a simple taxonomical list, without any intellectualism nor complex strategies to define anything. We explore the most varied instrumental techniques, technologies, and formal structures, according to our experiences both as listeners and musicians (and all this is perhaps more evident here than in our first record). That’s all. We believe that the art world in all its complexity is not different from that, even when it apparently looks for motives or goals and presents itself with complex conceptual schemes. In the end, it’s just the same simple, eternal game. We just wonder if this game is everything or nothing at all.
elio martusciello: unoccupied areas
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Price:£11.50
Tightly focused electroacoustic compositions that are austere, rich, strange and brilliantly executed. Elio has an ear like a bat and a serious antipathy toward cliché, and he never relies on repetition for structure; these pieces seem rather to grow out of themselves in surprising but somehow logical ways, like perfect exotic blooms. His is also a music of extremes, never theoretical but always grounded in the grain of the sounds themselves. Mostly highly abstract, there is also a daring tribute to Pierre Schaeffer here that is exquisitely judged. A quiet masterpiece.
Taxonomy: A global taxonomical machine
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Price:25.00 CA$
Taxonomy (Martusciello, Lella, Fega) plays compositions and improvises, exploring the syncretism between different musical codes. Taxonomy always allows the whole to be divided up into its constituent parts. A line of shadow between osmosis and isomorphism. Martusciello is a member of the improvisation group Ossatura.
In the same spirit as Parasites (AM 096), this group chooses an electro-noise approach. The finesse of the mix, worthy of electroacoustic music, highlights the rich details, a dynamic palette ranging from clashing noise to silent tracks. The album, A Global Taxonomical Machine, offers a gripping blend of concrete noise, abstract electronic effects and acoustic sections. Martusciello work in the improv group Ossatura, a major act on the international avant-garde music circuit.
Places which do not appear on any map. Morphological analogies that lie between thought and micro-organisms. Strange correlations between the letters of forgotten alphabets and globalised (de-localised) languages. For us in the past all books, alphabets, signs, chemistry (both organic and inorganic), geography, religion, politics and journeys were only scenery of an experience, a dream or aspiration. Then we met by the same bookshelf of that same library.
We are not particularly cultured and so we confined ourselves to the task of taxonomy, the most arbitrary of taxonomies. We thought about compiling signs according to our desires. The resulting volume does not tell any story, or even reveal any truth or discovery. This is an illegible text, devoid of significance but with meaning. If, in some way, the world itself can be reflected in the myriad of small fragments that compose it, then this is the fragment that we have unearthed.
Very active in a number of groups and ensembles, and extremely versatile, the members of this trio live for improvised and experimental music. Elio Martusciello is a renowned electroacoustician, with several international awards under his belt. Besides electronics, Roberto Fega also plays tenor and soprano sax. He is a member of the political fanfare Titubanda and the multimedia collective Arturo, and also composes music for dance. Graziano Lella is best known as a bassist and a sax player. He has previously played in a punk band before joining the avant-rock group Dura Figura in 1997.
ossatura: verso
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The second release from this abstract trio who mingle hard electronics with acoustic and processed percussion. A more focused, subtle aesthetic here, I think, than on their last also excellent - CD. These are finely tuned and seamlessly integrated sounds that have been crafted and, importantly, performed; this is essentially played music that had been painstakingly reworked, and bears still the deep qualities of interactivity and immediacy that created it.
to extend the visibility IV (excerpt)
Elio Martusciello was born in Naples in 1959. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self taught musician, composer. He teaches "electronic music", "audiovisual" and "multimedia and installation composition" in the classes of degree "music and new technology" at the conservatory of Cagliari.
In International competitions his works have been awarded ("Grands Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique" Bourges, with: "Limite inferiore sinistro"-1994, "Movimento quietudine"-1997, "Proiezioni"-1997, "Cattura magica"-1997, "Wave"-1999, "A@Traverso.it"-2000, "Presenti successivi"-2003, "Aesthetics of the machine"-2005; "Luigi Russolo" Varese, with: "Cthulhu"-1991, "Anamnesi"-1992, "Ambra"-1994; "Phonurgia nova" Arles, with: "Peut-être"-1997; "CIMESP" São Paolo do Brasil, with: "HZ - Limits of the Technology"-2001; "imaginaria film festival 2007", with: "to extend the visibility IV"). In 2004 his work "Proiezioni" have been awarded with "Les Euphonie d'Or 1993-2003" at the Grands Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique Bourges.
Presentations, concerts and conferences at other International festivals, universities, associations and reserch centres include: VIII Festival di Musica Contemporanea-900 Musicale Europeo (Napoli), Ina-GRM (Paris), Futura (Crest & Lyon), Les Musiques (Marseille), Link (Bologna), Musica Verticale (Roma), Synthèse (Bourges), CRM (Roma), Henie Onstad Arts Centre (Oslo), PANaroma (São Paolo do Brasil), Connecticut College (New London-USA), Centre d'études et de recherche Pierre Schaeffer (Paris), Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (Seoul), Soundscapes Symposium (Barcelona), Spaziomusica (Cagliari), 102 rue d'Alembert (Grenoble), Istituto Gramma (L'Aquila), Césaré (Reims), Musica Millemondi (Napoli), MM&T (Milano), "Inventionen 2000" Berliner Festival Neuer Musik (Berlin), Zeppelin (Barcelona), Festival for ny musikk "Music Factory" (Bergen), Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Attraversa/o (Palermo), International Music Festival (Besençon), Elektrophonie (Doubs), Festival "Entre cour et jardins" (Dijon), Dispositif Coopèratif Audio "Collective Jukebox 4.0" (Genéve), Festival Acces-s, Culture Electoniques (Pau), Trans'électroacoustique, Project'son Festival (Marseille), Controindicazioni (Roma), Musiques Vivantes / GMVL "Aujourd'Hui Les Musiques du Futur" (Lyon), Electronicittà (Marseille), PEAM/03 "Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting" (Pescara), microOnde (Montessu), KuenstlerHaus "compilations & databases" (Bremen), Superfici Sonore "ixem" (Firenze), Dissonanze (Roma), Rien à voir (Montréal), Dal Niente Projects (London), Espace Odyssées (Paris), Raum (Bologna), EMS - Festival (Stockholm), Elettronicittà (Marseille), Festival di nuova consonanza (Roma), Kontakte (Cagliari), Risonanze (Venezia), Projektgruppe neue musik (Bremen), L'espace du son (Bruxelles), Interzona (Verona), Festival Archipel (Genève), Musique Action (Nancy), Interferenze (San Martino Valle Caudina), Angelica (Bologna), Someone Says Somethings (London), Acousmania (Bucarest), musicaXimmagine (Firenze), Akousma (Montréal), Signal (Cagliari), Istants Chavirés (Paris), Pannonica (Nantes), Siberfest IV - International Electronic Music Community Concert (Sibiu - Transilvania), XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Musica Electroacustica (Cordoba - Argentina), Sonoimágenes (Buenos Aires), Inouï (Avignon), Miniere Sonore (Oristano), Druskomanija (Vilnius), Sguardi Sonori (Schio), ContemporaneaMente (Lodi), Electric audio unit (Oslo), etc...
In 1993 he was Composer in Residence at the "Centre National de Création Musicale" - "GMEM" (Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille) and in their studio composed "Non-nato". In 1997 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "Wave". In 1998, he was commissioned by the "RAI Radiotre (Audiobox)" for whom he composed "Voices from Audiobox". In 1999, he was commissioned by the "Benevento SoundFiction" for whom he composed "Abita ". In 2000, he was Composer in Residence at the "Césaré (studio de création musicale) " and in their studio composed "I.S.O. ". Also, in 2000 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "rita's kitchen". In 2003 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "Circé".
He is also a Live Improvising Musician and has worked with musicians such as (etre), Devin A. Ashton-Beaucage, Ana-Maria Avram, Ronan Baduel, Simone Balestrazzi, Natasha Barrett, Patrick Beaulieu, Claus Van Bebber, Roberto Bellatalla, Florance Blain, Alessandro Bosetti, Lévy Bourbonnais, Alberto Braida, Catherine Carignan, Eugene Chadbourne, Mathieu Chamagne, Guy Chenevier, Ellen Christie, Gene Coleman, Mike Cooper, Crashbonsai, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Tadas Dailyda, Rhodri Davies, Solène Derbal, Richard Deutsch, Dieb13, Jacques Di Donato, Michel Doneda, Gabriel Dufour, Iancu Dumitrescu, Isabelle Duthoit, Pierre Faure, Anders Forisdal, Wolfgang Fuchs, Gianni Gebbia, Lelio Giannetto, Emilie Girard-Charest, Pascal Gobin, Michel Godard, Lisa Goethe, Fernando Grillo, Mike Hartman, Thomas Heberer, Erhard Hirt, Tim Hodgkinson, Sarunas Kacionas, Mazen Kerbaj, Mantautas Krukauskas, Giuseppe Ielasi, Pasquale Innarella, Xabier Iriondo, Frédéric Lapointe, Thomas Lehn, Giancarlo Locatelli, Julie Loranger, Rita Maciliunaité,
Emilie De Maisonneuve, Christian Malfray, Matjaz Mancek, Andrius Maslekovas, Sabina Meyer, Arturas Mikoliunas, Jean-Marc Montera, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Roberto Musanti, Jerome Noetinger, Albertas Navickas, Richard Nunns, Okapi, Alessandro Olla, Tanja Orning, Mauro Orselli, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Miriam Palma, Agnes Palier, Olivier Pasquet, Arno Peters, Marina Peterson, Marco Pianges, Raffaella Piccolo, Jannie Pranger, Walter Prati, Eirik Raude, Viktorija Riménailté, Claudio Rocchetti, Billy Roisz, Marius Salynas, François Sarhan, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Julian Skar, Ron Schmidt, Domenico Sciajno, Mario Schiano, Frank Schulte, Sharif Sehnaoui, Fabrizio Spera, Nicolas Sylvestre, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Stefano Tedesco, Michael Thieke, Ida Toninato, Olivier Toulemonde, Giovanni Trovalusci, Karolis Vaitiekunas, Luca Venitucci, Anders Vinjar, Ruta Vitkauskaité, Joe Williamson, Jack Wright, Z'ev, Stefano Zorzanello, Arunas Zujus, and others.
He is a founding member of "IATO" (musicians collectives), "IXEM" (Italian eXperimental Electronic Music) and "BOWINDO" (experimental italian label founded with Giuseppe Ielasi, Domenico Sciajno, Alessandro Bosetti, Valerio Tricoli and Renato Rinaldi). In 2002 started his collaboration with the multi-media art/life projects "Arturo" and "La locandaccia". He collaborates with dancers group ADAMA (Alessandra Cristiani, Maddalena Gana, Samantha Marenzi) and Gabriella Riccio. He works with Citrullo International s.r.l.: Luciano Barcaroli, Carlo Hintermann, Gerardo Panichini and Daniele Villa (documentaries, audiovisual events, cinema, television, multimedia) and Studio Brutus: (animation, game design, web design, video broadcast, graphic design). He composes music for "Cane Capovolto" a cinematographic and video research collective with Alessandro Aiello. He works with visual artist Pinuccio Sciola.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Cultures électroniques 8 (IMEB, 1995)
E. e M. Martusciello: meta-harmonies (Staalplaat, 1995)
Cultures électroniques 10 (IMEB, 1997)
Project'son (GMEM, 1998)
Ossatura: dentro (Recommended Records, 1998)
Schismophonia: radio-lines (Goethe-Institut Rom, 1999)
E. e M. Martusciello, M. Schiano: Trio di Napoli (Discoteca di Stato, 1999)
State of the union 2001 project by Elliott Sharp (EMF, 2001)
Ossatura: verso (Recommended Records, 2002)
E. Martusciello, R. Nunns, M. Cooper: Cineclub Detour (Hipshot, 2003)
Ossatura: Audiology II (FMP 2003)
Aesthetics of the machine (bowindo, 2003)
Ossatura: Art Bears revisited (Recommended Records, 2004)
Elettronica Italiana vol.1 (EMI Music Italy, 2004)
Punti di ascolto (CEMAT, 2004)
Unoccupied areas (Recommended Records, 2005)
Taxonomy: A Global Taxonomycal Machine (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005)
Hipshot guitars vol.3 (Hipshot, 2007)
Taxonomy: 10 Taxonomical Movements (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2008)
SELECTED VIDEOGRAPHY
with mike cooper : stolen moments (2004)
red kodiak (2004)
aesthetics of the machine (2005)
reiecta (2005)
with ester curcio and vittorino curci: compensazioni (2006)
naturalis electronica (2006)
balanced - dedicated to Maria Zambrano (2008)
to extend the visibility (Recommended Records, 2009)
short story (2009)
By rinascitasuona at 2009-11-08 "La frittata"è l’ottavo episodio della serie Recover Band!,in cui si intravede la fine di un tunnel economico iniziato con i mutui subprime e che aveva costretto il Dr Richard Over a razionare cipolle ai suoi pazienti feticisti,come avevamo visto nella precedente puntata.Ora la frittata assurge a simbolo della supposta ripresa economica,che fa capolino persino nel suo disastrato Fetish Hospital.Egli però non ha mai smesso di seguire il suo destino,ciò che ha cambiato la sua vita e quella di altri sventurati e che forse lo ha salvato da gesti inconsulti:la RECOVER BAND!,covers improvvisate da 45 giri(ad estrazione).
con:Felice Lechiancole(Dottor Richard Over) Lorenzo Lustri(Dottor Clean) Alex Mendizabal(oggettistica) Adriano Lanzi(elettroniche) Leonardo Milani(elettroniche) Errico De Fabritiis(sassofono) Giuseppe Savino(trombone) E,in questo capitolo la partecipazione del sorprendente attore teatrale Gaspare Balsamo...
DICONO DI LORO
"...adesso Venezia non mi sembra più così triste " (Gil Fontolan,gondoliere)
"...dateli a me,li curo io,ja..."( Mengele,dottore)
"...quel cantante tozzo...Adriano......Pappalardo,sì,è stata proprio una cattiveria da parte sua portarli in tribunale!"(Carla Pedissequo,casalinga)
"...conosco Richard dal '61,si è fatto da solo..." (Hank"Crack"Tombstone,free lance)
"...hanno rifatto Dindonne de Lando Fiorini,je volevo spezzà le mano,ma quer dottore Richarde m'ha arigalato er 45 giri,allora me sò dato 'na carmata" (Alvaro er macellaro)
Il concerto di Nico Mangifesta avrà luogo a Roma e sarà trasmesso in diretta per l'evento internazionazionale NON STOP MUSIC PLANET presso il Point Ephemere a Parigi ed in streaming su www.nonstopmusicplanet.comL'esibizione dal vivo che si terrà nella libreria caffè del pigneto, verrà ripresa con la collaborazione di Mosaiko Produzioni ed HoboTv e sarà trasmessa in tutto il mondo attraverso il sito www.nonstopmusicplanet.com
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