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Alessandro Fogar
Prakriti
A hommage to Giacinto Scelsi
'Prakriti' (from the Sanskrit word meaning 'nature' or 'cosmic energy'), is
an exploration of nature through transformation of natural sounds and integratiing
them with static drones obtained mainly from stretching and granulating orchestral
sounds.
All the sound is generated by a real time system, producing an infinite and
ever-changing combination of sound events, it has been built using SuperCollider2
on an Apple Macintosh computer.
Sounds from nature, recorded during a residence in Topolo, a mountain village
in Italy near the Slovenian border, are metabolized, transformed, distorted,
decomposed, granulated. The raw materials are transformed focusing on granules
and acoustic micro-particles, on the microsound level and then mixed with orchestral
sampled sounds. The author acts by controlling the evolution of the work and
the generation of new sound events, mixing and spatializing their stratification,
composing the silence.
The enhanced CD is completed by the video "Uomini che guardano nascere" by Francesco
Paladino, with the Fogar's soundtrack. A poetic elaboration of looks, restless,
in a certain way.
Enhanced CD, readable on any CD player - for the Audio section - and on any
computer - both PC and Apple - for the Multimedia section. The Multimedia, in
MPEG format, is legible with any video viewer QuickTime, Windows Multimedia Player. |
