extrasensory NEW ITALIAN FUTURISTS event > London, 7 march 2002

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extrasensory presents

NEW ITALIAN FUTURISTS

Digital music performances by:
FANTASMAGRAMMA
MASSIMO
ALESSANDRO "MUGEN" CANOVA
Z.E.L.L.E

+ DJs

7 March 2002
7pm > 1am
£5 / £4

291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road, London E2
Tube: Old Street
Bus: 26, 48, 55
Car Park available

CONTACT
+44 (0)20 7265 9760
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http://www.extrasensory.org

SUPPORTED by:
The Italian Cultural Institute

FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT >>>

THE NEW ITALIAN FUTURISTS
featuring FANTASMAGRAMMA, MASSIMO, ALESSANDRO 'MUGEN' CANOVA and Z.E.L.L.E

Music performances featuring the new wave of Italian sound artists who are
extending the revolutionary ideas of Luigi Russolo and the futurist movement
in ways relevant to the 21st century. Russolo was inspired by intent
listening to all the sounds around him, particularly the sounds of the
modern urban environment and its industrial machines. He could hear noise as
music, and advocated the use and transformation of this ambient sound
palette into a new musical experience and language: one which would
transcend the understanding of what is music.  Since this revolutionary
manifesto was first put forward in the 1920s, many sound artists have
explored these ideas: field recordings, ambient sound, and a huge diversity
of electronically produced sounds, are now commonplace within both art
culture and experimental and popular music.  Now, with the advent of the
digital age, new vistas of sonic possibilities are opening up.  Like
Russolo, the above artists focus on dissonance, noise, rhythm, the
microtonal, and improvisation, in an attempt to push the limits of musical
perception.  For the futurists "musical evolution is paralleled by the
multipication of machines". Now, programming skills are replacing
instruments, in a shift from hardware to software: sound is digitally
atomised and encoded.  Russolo's Art of Noise has become a Science of Sound:
a science that is moulded by a creative impetus, with the intention of
producing new and exciting sonic (musical) experiences that extend both our
senses and understanding. The above artists are at the forefront of this
innovation.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS >>>

FANTASMAGRAMMA

fantasmagramma are Francesco and Marco Leoci, a young and very exciting duo
who have started creating audio-visual work only very recently. Their work
is focused on the actual physical quality of sound. This is then composed
into a futurist music that helps to extend our concept of music in the
digital realm. Recognisable motifs - repetition, 'beats' - are morphed into
new forms that sound essentially freeform and improvised.

DISCOGRAPHY
2001 ab CD (extrasensory)

EXHIBITIONS & AUDIO PRESENTATIONS
Netmage (Bologna), Clink & Click (Bologna), Link (Bologna), sound . light .
space (London).

ALESSANDRO 'MUGEN' CANOVA

Started making electronic music in the mid 1990s using digital and analogue
instruments / media, focusing on unusual sound samples and their
relationship to visual design. In 1999 Canova began experimenting with sine
waves and white noise as his only sound sources, developing a special
interest in microsounds and the glitch aesthetic. With his works the artist
aims to create a meditative dimension: a contemplation of sound that lucidly
expresses a refinement of frequency. Presently he is working on a project
called "Mega Stuctures" involving manipulated field recordings and ultra
minimal sound sculptures, and is currently studying Japanese art and Asian
culture at Venice university.

DISCOGRAPHY
1999 Sine 000 CD (Pachinkostudio)
2001 770 CD (Pachinkostudio)
2002 Drowning Venice CD (Pachinkostudio)

EXHIBITIONS & AUDIO PRESENTATIONS
1999 Pachinkostudio presents Mugen (Padua)
2001 Musiknetzwerke (Berlin)

MASSIMO

Massimo left university to pursue his enthusiasm for music and computers.
When not working on his music, Massimo spends his time hacking satellite
television systems.  He began to perform live electronic computer music in
early 1999.

DISCOGRAPHY
1999 Massimo CD (Microwave Recordings)
2000 Online audio (http://fals.ch)
2000 Minimo CD (Staalplaat).
2001 Generetion v.1 compilation CD (Bip-Hop)
2001 invalidObject CD (Fallt)
2001 Hey babe, let me see your USB and I'll show you my FireWire CD (Mego)

EXHIBITIONS & AUDIO PRESENTATIONS
ICMC (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Dissonanze (Rome), Schweiz (Berlin),
Rhiz (Wien), Nova (Bruxelles), Academy Overtoom (Amsterdam), Earational 3
festival ('s-Hertogenbosh), Extrapool (Nijmegen), Batofar (Paris), Le lieu
unique (Nantes), and many more.

Z.E.L.L.E

Maurizio Martusciello is an electroacoustic composer and drummer involved in
projects of both experimental and improvised musics. In 1999 he was awarded
second prize in the International Electroacoustic Music Contest (CIMESP,
Brazil). Nicola Catalano is a journalist for the Italian magazines Blow Up
and Rumore, as well as a radio programmer for the national Italian
broadcasting company RAI. He is a passionate listener of strange and unusual
musics.

DISCOGRAPHY
1995 Meta-Harmonies CD (Staalplaat, The Netherlands)
1997 Dentro CD (ReR Megacorp, UK)
1998 Linguafonie compilation CD (Goethe Institut, Italy)
1999 Trio di Napoli CD (Discoteca di Stato, Italy)
2000 Ring Ring compilation CD as Meta-Zu (ReR Megacorp, UK)
        MetaXu MetaXu CD (Plate Lunch, Germany)
        Unsettled Line CD (Metamkine, France)
2001 Nth CD (LINE, US)

EXHIBITIONS & AUDIO PRESENTATIONS
Martusciello has performed at festivals worldwide including Archipel 2001
(Geneva), Dissonanze 2 (Rome), Off ICMC 2000 (Berlin), LMC Festival
(London), Musique Action (Nancy), Musiques Actuelles (Victoriaville),
Biennale di Roma 1999, Biennale di Venezia 1999, amongst others.

--------------------
out now: fantasmagramma, ab [extrasensory cd.1] 
   "finely distilled tracks...this is a music that brings back the essentials, to an ear deaf
    from the beats and breaks, of minimalism and melody" de:bug 
   "music like glitch should be: short cuts, sinewaves and pulses" vital weekly

soon: akira yamamichi, architectonics [extrasensory cd.2]
soon: alan peacock, longlow [extrasensory cd.3]

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