AGOSTINO DI SCIPIO - Obras - (1996 / 1999)

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Agostino Di Scipio (Napoli, 1962)
Composer, sound artist, and scholar, Di Scipio graduated in Composition and Electronic Music from the Conservatory of L’Aquila and was later appointed PhD at the University Paris VIII, with a practice-driven research concerning the notion of “liveness” in live electronics performance contexts and sound installations. His compositional work bears on peculiar approaches on sound generation and transmission, and often results in the design and exploration of technologically hybrid networks of sonic interactions. Artist-in-residence of several institutions world-wide, notably including the DAAD Kunstlerprogramm (Berlin, 2004-2005), guest composer in several festivals worldwide, his musih c is available through CD labels (RZ Edition, Neos Records, Chrysopeé Electronique, Wergo, Neuma, Stradivarius, Die Schachtel, etc.) as well as Internet labels (Toxo Records, Redshift Records, etc.). With pianist Ciro Longobardi, he worked out a large-scale realization of John Cage’s Electronic Music for Piano (Venice Biennale 2012, recording available on Stradivarius). With saxophonist Mario Gabola he established the Upset duo, exploring recycled analog circuitry. With Dario Sanfilippo, he established the Machine Milieu project, exploring chaotic dynamics and autonomic behavior in multiagent systems. His output also includes two chamber music theatre works, with poetry reading and electroacoustics: Tiresia (with poet Giuliano Mesa) and Sound & Fury. A theatre of sounds, noises and sometimes voices (based on excerpts from Shakespeare’s The Tempest).
Di Scipio has extensively researched the theory, history and politics of sound technologies and musical media, and has extensively published on related matters. He served as full-time professor in Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatory of Naples (2001-2013) and today holds the same position in L’Aquila. Formerly “Edgard-Varèse-Professor” at Technische Universität, Berlin, and “visiting professor” at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he has lectured in numerous institutions world-wide and has joined various artistic research units, including at Université Paris VIII and Technische Universität Graz.

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released April 26, 2022

Agostino Di Scipio
(1996 -1999)

Se presentan aquí tres obras compuestas a finales de la década de 1990 para diferentes medios y contextos escénicos. Nacidos de proyectos separados, exploran sonidos inusuales y residuales obtenidos de guitarras clásicas, folk y eléctricas. Cada trabajo se centra en un pequeño número de técnicas de interpretación inusuales, tal vez idiosincráticas, y presenta transformaciones de audio digital en tiempo real especialmente diseñadas. Al final de la primera obra, la voz del intérprete dobla uno de los (pocos) tonos de la parte de guitarra. Las otras dos obras también cuentan con algunas voces, pero ahora son voces que leen algo de poesía (en español e italiano). Por lo tanto, estas tres obras parecen tener más en común de lo que uno podría pensar, aunque dan a luz mundos sonoros muy diferentes.

Presented here are three works composed at the end of the 1990s for different media and performance contexts. Born of separate projects, they explore unusual and residual sounds obtained from classical, folk and electric guitars. Each work focuses on a small number of unusual, perhaps idiosyncratic, playing techniques, and features specially designed real-time digital audio transformations. At the very end of the first work, the performer’s voice doubles one of the (few) pitches of the guitar part. The other two works, too, feature some voices, but now they are voices reading some poetry (in Spanish and Italian). Therefore, while bringing forth very different sonorous worlds, these three works seem to have more in common than one could think of.


Obras:

1) - Ektopos – one or more acoustic guitars in unison, 1997 (version with solo guitar and six ghost guitars, 2014)
duration: 7’46”

guitar(s): Arturo Tallini
electronics: Agostino Di Scipio
live recording: Auditorium of the S. Cecilia Conservatory of Rome, December 3rd, 2014, festival Nuova Consonanza, Rome

Ektopos es un solo de guitarra clásico escrito con mucha precisión para ser tocado "al unísono" por varios guitarristas (tratando de mantenerse sincronizados, pero fallando inevitablemente) o por un solista superpuesto con varios guitarristas "fantasmas", es decir, con múltiples copias del mismo. solo tal como lo grabó ella o él mismo (en la performance en vivo, las pistas de reproducción están sujetas a varios controles y cambios de timbre, adaptándose al gesto del solista a través del análisis de señal por computadora, en tiempo real - se requieren algoritmos especialmente preparados con Pure Data). La palabra griega ektopos (ectópico, “aquello que está fuera de lugar”) alude al hecho de que, debido a las técnicas de interpretación involucradas, las manos del intérprete sobre el cuerpo de la guitarra están en su mayoría en todas partes excepto en las posiciones habituales de interpretación.
Is a very precisely notated classic guitar solo to be played either “in unison” by several guitarists (trying to stay in synch, but inevitably failing) or by a soloist overlapping with several “ghost” guitarists, that is, with multiple copies of the solo as recorded by her/himself (in the live performance, the playback tracks are subject to various controls and timbral changes, adapting to the soloist’s gesture via real-time computer-based signal analysis – required are specially prepared Pure Data algorithms). The Greek word ektopos (ectopic, “that which is out of place”) alludes to fact that, because of the playing techniques involved, the performer’s hands on the guitar’s body are mostly everywhere except in the usual playing positions.


2) - 5 piccoli ritmi – fixed audio media, 1996
duration: 5’54”

voice: Celia Pereyra (reading a short poem Humberto Maturana)
guitar sounds, electronics, computer: Agostino Di Scipio
recorded in the composer’s own studio


5 piccoli ritmi (cinco pequeños ritmos) es una obra acusmática corta que se enfoca en sonidos particulares que uno puede hacer raspando y frotando las cuerdas bajas de bronce de una guitarra acústica (folK). La estrategia consistió en dos procesos computacionales en tiempo real (desarrollados con Kyma computer music workstation): uno destinado a crear un montaje totalmente automatizado de sonidos previamente muestreados (con procedimientos algorítmicos musicales abstractos y completamente formalizados), el otro que consiste en el procesamiento informático en tiempo real del montaje sonoro (con transformaciones interactivas de "procesamiento granular"). La mezcla completa finalmente se dividió en cinco secciones musicales, además de una breve introducción y un breve final (Outro). Cada sección es anunciada por una voz fuera del escenario. En el final (Outro) se escucha la misma voz leyendo unos pocos versos de una pequeña pieza de “mala poesía juvenil” del reconocido neurofisiólogo, cibernético y filósofo chileno Humberto Maturana

¿Qué es la muerte para el que la mira?
¿Qué es la muerte para el que la siente?
Pesadez ignota, incomprensible,
dolor que el egoísmo trae, para ése;

Una versión anterior de este trabajo apareció en el CD ElectroAcoustic Music VI de Neuma Records (Neuma 450-93).

(five small rhythms) is a short acousmatic work focusing on particular sounds one can make by scratching and rubbing the lower, bronze-wound strings of an acoustic (folk) guitar. The strategy consisted in two real-time computer-based processes (developed with the Kyma computer music workstation): one meant to create a fully automated montage of previously sampled sounds (with abstract, utterly formalized algorithmic-music procedures), the other consisting in the real-time computer-processing of the montage sound (with interactive “granular processing” transformations). The complete mix was eventually split into five musical sections, plus a short Intro and a short Outro. Each section is loudly announced by an off-stage voice. In the Outro one hears the same voice reading the few lines of a small piece of “bad juvenile poetry” by renowned Chilean neurophysiologist, cybernetician and philosopher Humberto Maturana (“What is death to the one who looks at it, to the one who feels it? Heaviness unknown, incomprehensible, pain brought about by selfishness, for the one; silence, peace and nothing, for the other”). An earlier version of this work appeared on the Neuma Records’ CD ElectroAcoustic Music VI (Neuma 450-93).


3) - Improvviso Polifonico Poetronico – poetry reading (three voices), electric guitar, live electronics, 1999
duration: 12’51”

voices: Mariano Baino, Mario Lunetta, Eva Martelli
electric guitar and live electronics: Agostino Di Scipio
live recording: Centro Culturale Angelus Novus, L’Aquila, December 19th, 1998, festival Poetronics, L’Aquila
poetry by Mariano Baino, Annamaria Giancarli, Mario Lunetta

Improvviso Polifonico Poetronico es la grabación de una sesión de improvisación que tuvo lugar en una noche nevada de invierno en L'Aquila (en las montañas de los Apeninos), en 1999, yo mismo tocando una guitarra eléctrica procesada por computadora (con Kyma computer music workstation) y tres amigos poetas leyendo segmentos más cortos o más largos de sus propios poemas. Las tres voces fueron procesadas por computadora, superponiéndose e interfiriendo con una variedad de sonoridades y gestos derivados de la guitarra.
Is the recording of an impro session that took place on a snowy winter night in L’Aquila (in the Appenines mountains), in 1999, with myself playing a computer-processed electric guitar (with the Kyma computer music workstation) and three friends poets reading shorter or longer segments of their own poems. The three voices were themselves computer-processed, overlapping and interfering with a variety of guitar-derived sonorities and gestures.

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Imagen de portada: Manilio Prignano.
Foto del compositor: Pedro Bittencourt.


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