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Art Spaces Vol1 - Noise in Art, Sonic Dialogues with Art Places

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Sometimes when I have the luck to visit Museums it may happen I feel like floating, suspended in time and space.

I usually hold a recorder to capture the natural, spontaneous sounds of the exhibitions I'm visiting, keeping my recording device on while walking through the spaces, investigating the way each exhibition room was playing a different sound.
Beside the resonance caused by the physical dimensions of the room, I am amazed by how differently people were placing themselves in the environment, reacting to the volume of the space and to what was contained and displayed.
A very interesting unconscious world captured in sound.
I keep walking while preserving the sense of suspension that I wanted to be sustained as long as possible.
Sometimes there is something that can gently make me reach another level of such strong feeling, another layer of depth that connected to the sense of floating.
Until now, out of many museums I've visited and recorded this magic has happened just three times: at the Tate Modern in London and at the Guggenheim and MoMA in NYC.

This is a way to represent how a feeling needs to find availability to happen in full and reveal its identity.
All is related to the physical perception of proximity and distance, public and intimate, concrete and abstract, the borders beneath our emotions float and sometimes get suspended.

between the two realms: public/environmental/solid/real and musical/abstract/emotional/intimate.

PLEASE NOTE:
given the subtlety of the sounds I suggest you to listen to these recordings with headphones.

Credits:
Gulsun Karamustafa, Agnes Martin, Tate Modern, Guggenheim New York, MoMA New York.
Album cover: original painting by Patrizio Vanessi

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released December 4, 2020

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Luca Formentini is an interesting composer and guitarist, so much the latter his website is called unguitar.com, who uses the instrument as a tool to make mostly ambient sounds and curiosity-filled extended vignettes, although once in a while his conventional guitar technique sneaks through to the surface and surprises, but mainly Art Spaces would be considered as ambient guitar-sourced sounds, mysterious electronics, and field recordings — mostly of himself walking through various art museums, all mixed together. Sometimes one will hear voices of people in a crowd (or even closer range spoken voices) presumably inside the ‘art spaces’, sometimes one just doesn’t know where the sounds are coming from or what exactly they are. The album consists of three long tracks, roughly twelve minutes each, the opener is titled “Tate Modern and Gulsun Karamustafa,” referencing the Contemporary Art Museum of Chicago, the second piece is “MoMa New York - A Dialogue within Itself,” and the final piece on the album is “MoMa New York - A Dialogue within Itself,” and while each of these pieces are completely different they are next to impossible to describe using any standard musical references, they just grow from nothing to morph and evolve through various sections and then eventually disappear. One can hear the composer walking around, people talking, blasts of gently howling feedback, and every once in a while something that sounds like guitar, acoustic or electric, heavily effected, ebow driven, even other instruments may be triggering the electronic sounds (prepared piano, bells, whistling sounds, bowed cymbals, etc. — the possibilities are almost limitless) all adding to the mystery of each piece. Art Spaces, because of the spatial nature of the field recordings within, would be best experienced using a good set of headphones. Check the three pieces out at the link below, and a reminder, this is Vol1, meaning there is probably more to come.
Peter Thelen on Expose.org, 2021

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Music composer, sound artist, environmental activist and wine maker who confuses music genre classification.
His ambient inclination, his roots in improvisation and sound research plus the regained use of voice create a magnetic and engaging expanded environment.
He has published and collaborated with Holger Czukay, Robert Rich, Markus Stockhausen, Franck Vigroux, Steve Lawson, Steve Jansen...
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