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FAVARON, GIANLUCA - Surfaces

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: 13 (3) SPS1302 Release Year: 2014 Note: collector's item, lim. 86 only - second release in the 'Private Sounds' - series (one sided, coloured vinyl) => G. FAVARON created digital processed, repetitive, quasi-rhythmic microsound-patterns derived from smallest particles of object-sounds (paper, scissors, stones, daily kitchen things), inspired by a series of polaroid pictures... a very conceptual release with often surprising result !! LAST COPY! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €18.00 More Info "Gianluca Favaron returns on Silentes with the second release in the prestigious “Private Sounds” series. Besides having published some solo works, Favaron is part of Under The Snow along with Stefano Gentile and collaborates with Ennio Mazzon on the Zbeen project. In the past he has released music as Ab'she and was part of Lasik Surgery along with Pierpaolo Zoppo. Among his most recent releases we remember his collaboration with Corrado Altieri entitled "The System of Objects". "Surfaces" is a modern electronic composition that was inspired by a series of Polaroids pictures taken by Favaron himself, whose basic idea is to create some patterns based on the repetition of small sound particles obtained with the fewest possible sources. The six parts of “Surfaces” were created recording the sounds of individual objects (... paper, scissors, stones, kitchen items, etc.), which were subsequently treated - mainly with two delay machines - and then assembled in the computer domain. A few digital sounds were added for good measure, but always trying to use the fewest number of sound sources in every part of the composition. The finished result is a series of particular sonic events that keep on chasing each other and give life to a microcosm populated with slowly evolving rhythmic loops that lull the listener into a sort of pleasant inner dance. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, "Surfaces" is a single-sided 12" record released in a standard edition of 86 copies. A special "Art Edition" is also available: the 13 copies of this edition contain a 30x30cm print reproduction from the Polaroid series that inspired the audio work, and the corresponding Polaroid picture." [label info] http://13.silentes.it "And then, finally, a solo work of Favaron, also on an one sided LP - both of these LPs are highly limited to less then 100 copies and are pressed on grey vinyl. Skip what I said about drone/ambient in Favaron's work, as on his solo LP he's taking the work he did with Corrado Altieri to another level. Here we have clearly acoustic sounds, which the cover describes as 'objects', and 'effects'. It seems to me these objects are being strummed, hit or banged and then sampled and fed through a bunch of effects. Here too we are dealing with the more louder areas of musique concrete, but unlike the CD with Altieri, the pieces are shorter here, almost in a sketch like fashion, going all over the acoustic spectrum, cutting in and out with the electronic transformations there of. The objects are used clear and dry, even when not revealing what these objects are, but in the process of mixing, all sorts of transformations are used to make a nice vibrant mix of all stages of the transformation process. Not always very noisy, such as in the fourth (and longest) piece, but it's a fine mixture of loud and quiet, through some highly intelligent compositions/improvisations (hard to make up my mind here). I thought it was fine that Under The Snow was a single sided record, but here I wouldn't have minded a second side with more music. This all sounded great." [FdW / Vital Weekly]