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Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:28:53 +0000

Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan is a brand-new polish/italian collaborative live audiovisual project, conceived and performed by multimedia artists Deftoo à La Yoa (digital piano, voice, trumpet, live electronics, live visuals) and The !S.A.D! (electric bass guitar, noises, live electronics, live visuals).

The performance is conceived around the live action on musical instruments and multichannel body-gesture-responsive videos.

The augmented sounds and the cinema format, multi-screen images – processed exclusively live, no playback – react in real-time to the gesture and the score artists play, creating synesthetic performative act where technology disappears to leave space for human emotions and body language, giving life to a new live-cinema experience.

The live act is nervous, disrespectful, screaming for attention, melting down the different influences of the duo, inspired by the masterworks of Beethoven, the avant-garde studies of John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi and the DIY ethic of DNA and Sonic Youth, influenced by the visionary social esotherism of Jonathan Glazer and celebration of obsessive paranoias in masterwork such as ‘Elephant’ by Gus V. Sant and ‘Pi – Faith in Chaos’ by Darren Aronofsky.

The performance is powered by C::NTR::L – free and open source Human Computer Interface developed by Marco Donnarumma – which exploits the physical computing technology transforming standard musical instruments into augmented audio-visual tools.

http://www.thesaddj.com/cntrl

Extracts from Ex Klangst Schwartz Manifesto

“It was the moment. A transitional period when suddenly there were no rules worth respecting.”
Mark Cunningham – Mars – about the No Wave scene
2004 April

Living our lives as observers inside of the society, crashing and raising again, we feel the same conditions surrounding us – no rules worth respecting.
We cannot draw the line between normality and paranoia, we cannot define the border between rationality and absurdity anymore. Loosing respect to the uniqueness and beauty of the human being, trying to save ourselves.

Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan is not meant to be classified as any genre type, does not mind to analize any common content, does not create and compose inside of the written rules.

Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan does not compromise its feelings with gifts of technology, but express them freely playing with its own instruments, voices and images.

Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan play augmented musical instruments transforming its natural sound in unexpected realm of sounds, noises and voices.

More infos, images and videos coming soon..

Check the myspace profile for upcoming audiovisual concerts and music:

http://www.myspace.com/xkss

‘Rules of Purification’ OUT NOW

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:59:15 +0000

Finally out my release for the massive net-label Smell the Stench (Melbourne, Australia).

This mini album might surprises most of you.
Harsh Noise, Live Noise, Dark Ambient. All tracks improvised and recorded live (Poland, Dec.2008).
Microphone capturing the soundscape of my home at night, live patching and processing sounds, voices, noises, everything around.

Deconstructing the soundscape of my own reality to get to the core, to the deep scary interior of the perception.
Powered by AudioMulch 1.0 (powerful “friendly” graphical programming enviroment for electronic music composition, specially in real-time… i suggest you to goggle it for more infos).
Click here to freely download the whole music package, plus front-back cover in High Resolution – ready to print: Download ‘Rules of Purification’

Because noise music is one of the few “weapons” we can still use freely against the poison of consumism, and the capitalistic killing of our listening.

Report Ausklang Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:04:44 +0000

Here i am, after a long stop. Many unexpected events didn’t allow me to keep on writing continuosly.
So i had the pleasure to spend few days in Hamburg in the end of the 2008 to take part in the annual Ausklang festival. The festival is the reference meeting point for the local experimental scene. Every year some representative artists from the Hamburg scene plus two foreigners artists play their shows at Hoerbar, an old cinema out of use, recycled in a unique way by the organizators. The Hoerbar is one of this cultural spaces that are slowly disappearing in Europe.
They organize concerts every week and a real community of artists and passionate of experimental music and media is living and sharing ideas and ispirations in a familiar and warm atmosphere. totally out of any kind business mentality, but only focusing on the pure passion for the sound. I remember some places like that in Italy a long long time ago, some old memories which makes me nostalgic.

During the Ausklang Festival you can also enjoy and taste one of the best experimental music collection i’ve ever seen out there, thanks to some kind guys running their own music distribution service. They come at Hoerbar and build there this unique exhibition of incredibly rare materials, cassettes, cd, minitapes, dvd, minicd … you’ll find there every kind of support you can imagine, and every kind of experimental music you have always dreamed of. I was embarassed for two days cause i didn’t know what to buy,… i would have bought everything!!

The line-up of the festival show an excellent quality. Many different approaches to experimental music made this festival a little but amazing showcase of arts.

Trautonia Capra (voce, synth, gothic electronics)

Napalmed (historical free-jazz, noise, harshcore duo from Czech Rep.)

Felix Kubin (Futuristic experimental pop musik from Hamburg)

Unfortunately i wasn’t able to make pictures of his show. He created a nice atmosphere with his hyper-delicate electronic music and a live score of an ancient black&white movie.

On the second day…

The SAD (nowave/visual/noise free audiovisual improvisation from Italy)

Bruno&Michelle are smiling (hironic high-speed pop from Hamburg)

Asmus Tietchens (Electronic music, soundscape)

Special thanks to Stefan and Robert at Hoerbar for taking care of me and to Kera&Andrè from Incite!! great times in Hamburg thanks to you all…

more infos: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/en/

Live at AusklangFestival, Hamburg

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:16:56 +0000

On 28th December i will be really glad to perform my work I C::ntr::l Nature (nowave/visual/noise audiovisual live improvisation) at Ausklang Festival at Hoerbar, Hamburg.
The artists invited:

Felix Kubin (HH)
(Futuristische Popmusik / Elektroakustik)
Napalmed (Tschechien)
(Jazz Noise Free Industrial Improvisation)
The !S.A.D!
Trautonia Capra (HH)
(Elektronisches Kunstlied mit Theremin + Gesang)
Asmus Tietchens (HH)
(Elektronische Musik / Klangforschung)
Bruno & Michelle are smiling (HH)
(Bös-komischer High-Speed-Pop)

“The Hörbar is the central meeting point for consumers and producers of electronic, electroacoustic and industrial music in Hamburg, every Wednesday from 9 pm to 1 am in the rooms of the B-Movie in Hamburg St.Pauli. Every last Friday in a month there is a concert with different music projects, performance artists, lectures or/and films.

“Since 1995 the Hörbar organizes every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the ‘Jahresausklangfestival’ (German for “year’s last notes”). On two subsequent evenings six to eight artists and groups perform in the movie theater. Moreover labels releasing and distributing experimental music are invited to build up their stands and present and sell their products.”

more info: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/?Ausklangfestival_2008:Weitere_Infos

C::NTR::L live AV physical computing

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:34:48 +0000

C::NTR::L AV augmented bass guitar improvisation from TheSAD on Vimeo.

Live action of audiovisual improvisation.
This work is performed with the electric bass guitar and the custom-made software C::NTR::L, Human-Computer Interface for physical computing i developed in Pure Data.
This was the first time i test the version 1.0 of C::NTR::L (feat. audiovideo modules and efx triggered in real-time by your partiture), and i can say it seems it works pretty good.
But please, share your ideas about it…im trying to develop the software for public use (also for no-pd’r).
for more infos about the soft please visit thesaddj.com/icontrolnature or send me a message here.
I’m not so happy of the compression of Vimeo, a better quality video can be found here:
thesad.blip.tv

New LP ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ OUT NOW!

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:29:14 +0000

Finally the collaboration album ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ w/ Kenji Siratori – japanese cyber punk writer – is OUT NOW on Juno Download, released by MODR (MusicaOltranza Digital Release).

This work , really important to me, is totally obscure and warm at the same time. Industrial atmospheres, screams, scattered iron plates, flesh and spirit.
This is what you will feel coming out from the sonic texture created by the japanese poetry and my black demons.

Tags: industrial, japanese spoken words, hardcore, experimental, bass idm.

Buy ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ clicking here. You can choose among 320kbps .mp3 or .wav full quality + printable artwork.
A soulful thanks for the support!