Adern X
A bunch of track from 2007 to 2012 lost in websphere or diffused in festival. Now collected and remastered.
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Adern X & Tiziano Milani
The source material for this release is a bunch of field recordings made in a cinema as electroacoustic music is influenced by the theory of editing of cinematography. In current society there’s the slight but relentless departure from the experience in a dedicated and public environment to a private one where perception is disturbed by the environment. The relation between music and image is quite complex as sound deals with the concept of environment: music can be a part of the meaning or just a furniture, and it could be also a distraction, but the focus of the work of this two italian sound artists is the peculiar quality of music to evoke images. The source recordings were processed and layered to make this album sounds like the soundtrack of an imaginary expressionist movie or as an experimental form of synphonic poem.
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Part of the 92912 series. Published in Platform58: Doors pag. 8 Dimensioni: 20x30 cm C Print |
The press release for “Cinema Show”, the new album from Italian artists Adern X and Tiziano Milani, makes an interesting claim: that “electroacoustic music is influenced by the theory of cinematographic editing”. This perhaps makes sense when one considers that for much of their respective histories cinema and music were both recorded to reels of film or tape which could be manipulated through cutting, splicing, and duplicating. This kinship undoubtedly persists today, as evidenced by the similarities between contemporary video and audio editing software. From the early experiments of German artists such as Walter Ruttman and Hans Richter to the blockbuster scores and album tie-ins of modern Hollywood, sound has always been either a second-class citizen of cinema or its secret guiding hand, depending on which version of the sound-image hierarchy one subscribes to. “Cinema Show” addresses this hierarchy directly, taking as its starting point a number of field recordings made in a cinema. Through the careful manipulation and supplementation of these recordings, a number of themes are brought to mind. Review by: Nathan Thomas (http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/04/adern-x-and-tiziano-milani-cinema-show/)
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