The Ducal Gardens open their doors to summer with the first appointment entirely dedicated to music and experimentation.
Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June 2013 at the Ducal Gardens, in the space in front of the Palazzina dei Giardini, in Corso Canalgrande in Modena, two evenings are scheduled during which dÉbruit will perform, in collaboration with Suona Francese and Paris Rockin'e, Vladislav Delay, Forest Swords, Frank Bretschneider , Grischa Lichtenberger, Mapping Around (an Antwork Project production in collaboration with Centro Musica and Ufficio Giovani D'arte of Modena), Morkebla, Von Tesla, French, Finnish, English, German and Italian artists, expression of emerging musical research in the electronic panorama international.
Biographical Notes
dÉbruit is a project by Xavier Thomas, producer interested in the union between urban rhythms and African and Middle Eastern music. Starting in 2008, with the publication of his first works, dÉbruit develops a very precise modus operandi characterized by the use of sound samples taken from music from certain geographical areas. Subsequently he becomes the DJ of a Congolese bar in the center of Paris thus entering into direct contact with the African musical culture. Not surprisingly, his debut album "From The Horizon" (Civil Music, 2012), is totally inspired by the music of West Africa, in particular Nigeria, Ghana and Benin. These are the foundations upon which dÉbruit builds a personal vision of contemporary Funk, which he himself defines as hyperreal. Bass lines and futuristic rhythms are mixed with the exotic atmosphere of Africa. A journey through the colors of dance music from Congo and Tunisia via Turkey and Jamaica. All revisited in a futuristic key.
Valdislav Delay is one of the aliases behind which the Finnish Sasu Ripatti is hidden, a reference name on the international electronic scene. A trained percussionist, rhythm has always been the focal point of his artistic research, but the different angles from which he examines the sound matter are kept carefully distinct from each other. The projects "Luomo" and "Uusitalo" place the physicality of sound before pure abstraction, drawing liberally from dub and house, always with the refinement that distinguishes his productions. Vladislav Delay creates highly fascinating abstractions, cybernetic settings and space-time dilations in which the listener cannot help but get lost. Each creation draws on a unique sound universe forged by Ripatti himself thanks to the help of new technologies, a red thread that is the trademark of all his productions.
Sasu Ripatti he is a versatile and multidisciplinary artist who manages to create his own path beyond any genre classification.
Matthew Barnes is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic characters to appear on the English music scene in recent years. His debut "Dagger Paths" (best record of 2010 for FACT magazine) is indecipherable, and perhaps for this reason so evocative and fascinating. Ambient atmospheres with echoes of rock guitars are the backbone of his compositions, made even more surprising by unexpected R & B and Hip-Hop inserts. From the dancefloor to desolate and dusty paths Forest Swords takes us to explore vast soundscapes, organic and dark.
After remixing the likes of Burial and Gold Panda and collaborating with How to Dress Well and controversial rapper A$AP Rocky, in 2013 Forest Swords put an end to his first album which will be released soon on Domino Records, historic New York record label.
Frank Bretschneider, Berlin-based musician, composer and video artist, is known for his research in sonic and visual minimalism. In 1995 together with Olaf Bender (Byetone) he founded the record label Raster Music which four years later would join Carsten Nicolai's Noton (Alva Noto) to give life to Raster-Noton, today a reference collective for contemporary electronic music. Active since 1996, Frank Bretschneider can be considered as one of the pioneers of the Glitch aesthetic, the error that becomes a musical element which has by now become a communicative standard for an entire generation of composers. From the outset, his intention was to overcome the split between the different levels of perception, allowing physical phenomena such as light and sound frequencies to be experienced in equal measure for both the eye and the ear. His most recent works explore the different meanings of electronic sound; from the rhythmic research of “Rhythm” (Raster Noton, 2007) to the complex audiovisual work “EXP” (Raster Noton, 2010) passing through “Kippschwingungen” (LINE, 2012), an album composed solely with the Subharchord, a rare analogue instrument that exploits subharmonic synthesis. At NODE 2013 Frank Bretschneider will present an absolute preview of the new project “Super.trigger” to be released on July XNUMXst on Raster-Noton.
Grisha Lichtenberger the youngest among Raster-Noton artists, his debut album “And IV (inertia)” (Raster-Noton, 2012) brought new life to the German collective, conforming to the standards of more illustrious colleagues such as Alva Noto, Byetone and Frank Bretschneider. His productions are characterized by the use of environmental recordings manipulated and deconstructed to such an extent that they become unrecognizable sound fragments. To analogue sources, Lichtenberger combines streams of pure digital matter to the point where digital and analogue merge with each other losing their distinctive features. The arrangement of these sound atoms occurs instinctively, at times brutal, giving physicality and dynamics to compositions that bring to mind the rhythmic abstraction of Autechre. Music represents only one of the expressions of Grischa Lichtenberger, a versatile artist capable of expressing his poetics also through installations, paintings and videos.
Mapping Around is the workshop which took place between March and May 2013 with the aim of analyzing the theory and practice of video mapping held by the collective Apparati Effimeri, national excellence in the field of architectural projections. The final production was designed ad hoc to be screened during the sixth edition of NODE on the facade of the Palazzina dei Giardini Ducali.
Mørkeblå (Norwegian for “dark blue”) is a project by producer Alberto Rosso. His path was born from the passion for vinyls and tapes of all musical genres, with particular attention to the noisiest underground music. This greatly influences his background: he starts creating tape loops and using vinyls, microphones and cassette players to manipulate the sound. Later he focuses more on psychedelia and Kosmische Musik, the founding foundations of the Morkebla project. In 2009 he joined the MDM noise collective in which several artists coexist including Luca Sigurtà and Rainbow Lorikeet. From his first collaboration with the artist Sara Cattin, who settled between Italy and Holland, two works that represent a strong blend of music and images. In 2011 his first EP “Omicron Rainbow” was released for the Spanish label Fracaso and later he joined the Piemontegroove project which brought him to the stage of festivals such as Jazz Re:Found, Collisioni and Club to Club. At NODE Morkebla will present “ Permanent Liminality” one of the a/v projects developed together with Sara Cattin; a reflection on the condition of liminality of the human being between landscapes and music, in order to express a condition of continuous research into being part of something, while always remaining outside of it.
Von Tesla is a project created by Marco Giotto based on the manipulation and reworking of synthetic sequences recorded on tape. The sound sources are then filtered and resampled developing hypnotic loops supported by acid sounds and deep echoes of distorted landscapes. In 2011 the first work "Mondo Parallel" was released in a limited edition and distributed in a digital version in free download with a live streaming DJ set all night long. A short distance later, “Black Mirror” was released on tape for Tulip Records and Providing Needles for the techno label Enklav. Marco Giotto has recently worked for the Uffizi Gallery, Ferrari and many other clients in Europe, Hong Kong and Brazil collaborating as sound designer with Roberto Fazio (creative director, interaction and visaul designer) and Apparati Effimeri (video mapping collective). At NODE Von Tesla will present ULTRAMAGNETIC CRYSTALBLEED, an a/v project in collaboration with Sa Ra to redesign the journey of magma that flows and crystallizes giving shape to the indefinite cyclical nature of time.
