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Ferment – new dark short film by Ioann Maria

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:33:25 +0000

Multimedia artist Ioann Maria just came up with a really dark short film, an elegant and intense 1.26 mix of footage, animation and symbolism.

She chose my track ‘Entering…’ as soundtrack for this work. The audio track is included in my first album ‘Home’ released back in 2007 by italian historical netlabel Sinewaves.it.

If you like the mood of this work, be sure to check the HD version here, and if you enjoy the sound – old but still one of my most inspired works IMHO – and you want to hear more check the album free to download here.

Report Pure Data Workshop, Gotland University, Sweden

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:16:29 +0000

Here you are the photo report from the Pure Data workshop i held with Deftoo at Gotland University, Institute for Technology, Art and New Media in Sweden.

It has been an intensive experience, 10 participants, 2 days, 16 hours and a lot of lab sessions.

I had the pleasure to show the potential and the basic dataflow strategies of Pure Data to the professors of the wellknown swedish Game Development & Design department, infact the workshop was focused on real-time audiovisual processing for Game Development and Narrative Media.

Special thanks to Iwona Hrynczenko for organization and to UlfBen for additional pictures

Click here to see the photo gallery: http://www.thesaddj.com/pics/

Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan Live Vision’r Fest

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:30:01 +0000

We’ll be performing the European Premiere of the brand-new collaborative project Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan - MultiScreen Live Cinema OpenSource Attack for Digital Piano &Electric Bass – at Vision’r Festival on 18th April at 22.30.
Completely conceived, created and live performed with OpenSource Software.
Powered by C::NTR::L 1.3 alpha for Networking Live Media special version of C::NTR::L developed in PureData by Marco Donnarumma aka The !S.A.D!.

Location Le Forum, Le Bellevilloise, Paris.

All Infos about the live audiovisual performance here:

http://www.thesaddj.com/ex-klangst-schwartz-swan/

Full programme:

http://www.vision-r.org/

See you there!

Audiovisual live Bristol

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:22:45 +0000

First official gig with my new musical project Kuoyàh & visual Artist Deftoo (PL). Audiovisual liveset 2step/dubstep/electronica.
FrijsfoBeats upcoming release launch party!

Check out:

Point B – http://www.spannered.org/radio/1563/

Sully – http://www.myspace.com/matasyn

Kuoyah – http://www.myspace.com/kuoyah

Deftoo – http://www.myspace.com/theghostsyoudrawonmyback

FRIJSFO BEATS (UK) – http://www.frijsfo.com

SAD goes UK – Kuoyah debut

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:09:32 +0000

Since February 2008 I’ve been working on a new musical project called ‘Kuoyàh‘, exploring dubstep/2step/garage sonorities. For those who know me this could sounds a strange news, but it came almost naturally. Some months ago I was a bit stuck with music productions, and i started composing some tracks without thinking much about what i was doing, only trying to express myself freely, forgetting my personal clichè (for a while..).

The result was unexpectedly interesting and i decided to try to send some demos over UK and Germany without focusing only on dubstep professionals.
In the end after some months I got in touch with Dj Oslek (owner of the upcoming, futuristic Frijsfo Beats label UK – Dub, Garage, 2step) who showed interest for my music and since then i decided to give a name – Kuoyàh as above – to this new side of my work.

The project went forward and now i am really glad to announce Kuoyàh debut on Frijsfo Beats. It will be a 3 tracks Ep called ‘Chase the Comedown‘. It will be the first of many digital only releases from the label and it explores – in a definetely S.A.D way – Dubstep/Electronica and hybrid styles.
The buzz around my work went totally out of my expectations and many artists from the dubstep scene supported my work with airtime in their radio shows (such as SUB.FM award winning dubstep radio).
So thanks to Bunzer0, Noyeahno&Warlock (of the great Rag&Bone label), Insectmind, Whistla and Forensics.

From the press release:

“As Kuoyàh, Marco shows us the fruits of his production work that has been influenced heavily by dubstep, garage, dub, and obviously his diverse musical background. This EP comprises some of Kuoyàh’s jittery, warped, cold dubstep beats, which quickly morph into hybrid style…
Fans of PointB, Pinch, Lewis Hunter, Ital Tek, Innasekt, Combat Recordings, Vex’d, Milanese should be interested to hear these tracks.”

The EP should come out in March/April and distributed on Boomkat / Bleep.
You can hear clips of the EP on Kuoyàh’s Myspace Profile:

http://www.myspace.com/kuoyah

or full tracks – low quality – on SoundCloud:

http://soundcloud.com/kuoyah

feel free to drop me a line if you enjoy the tunes. I would be curious of the opinion of my friends out there.

Keep an eye on Kuoyàh, because there are other forthcoming vinyl releases in the next months and an upcoming UK gig in Bristol at The Croft.
In March there will be the launch party of the 4th release from Frijsfo Beats and me and Deftoo – polish visual artist – will play a 1hour audiovisual set (first public performance).