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TONIUTTI, MASSIMO - The Clear Observatory (Eyepiece Musique)

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Klanggalerie - gg465 Release Year: 2024 Note: stunning 'experimental drone' composition (one minimal longform expanse of 65+ min.), with many gong like elements, based on an installation piece for a museum from 2013, now enlarged and extensified... *The Clear Observatory is a sort of never-ending piece, evolving from a cluster of seeds. Its sound sources (acoustic materials and field recordings) are textured and processed using a specific configuration of reverbs and delays to create this spacious 'eyepiece musique' * - lim. 300 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info "Das brandneue Album des italienischen Experimentalmusikers als CD im Digipack auf Klanggalerie. Massimo Toniutti ist der Bruder von Giancarlo Toniutti, der vor allem für sein elektroakustisches Meisterwerk "La Mutazione" (1985, Broken Flag) bekannt ist. Seit den 1980ern ist Massimo als experimenteller Künstler mit selbstveröffentlichten Kassetten aktiv, in den 90ern legte er ein Tonarchiv an und erarbeitete experimentelle Radioausstrahlungen. "The Clear Observatory - Eyepiece Musique" ist ein immersiver, über 55 Minuten andauernder Track, der mit Raum und Stille spielt. Eine lockere Klangstrukturen bewegen sich auf zyklische, aber unvorhersehbare Weise und umfassen Makroformen, Leerräume und "Klangstaub". Wie in einer weitläufigen Landschaft laden Details und kleine Ereignisse zu genauerer Beobachtung und Fokussierung ein. "The Clear Observatory" ist eine Art nie endendes Stück, das teilweise als Teil einer Installation in einem Museum stattfindet. Die Schallquellen (akustisches Material und Feldaufnahmen) wurden mit Konfiguration von Hall und Echo modifiziert, um diese raumgreifende "Okularmusik" zu erzeugen." [press release} https://massimotoniutti.bandcamp.com/album/the-clear-observatory-eyepiece-musique The sense of space remains the central pivot around which my new, long, and virtually endless musical piece develops. It's a project that encompasses three different stages: applied music, furniture music, and deep listening. Its roots date back to 2013 when I was commissioned a sound work for a permanent installation in a museum, for which I developed its initial and fundamental core (still pulsating!). By its very nature, this music has characteristics that I love to define as "welcoming”, inviting me to revisit it over time until it became my personal 'musique d'ameublement'; it was as if I had forgotten I was its author, enjoying it purely as a listener. But the "welcoming-space" potentials that I recognised in it also invited me to actively participate in events, and the further step was to simultaneously think in terms of listener and composer, leading me to expand the project through new 'furnishings' and an enlargement in time and space. A loose-knit structure, discreet and slow, unfolds throughout the duration of the piece, with a fundamentally cyclical and consistent progression, not sparing some new dynamics, unexpected events, and chance. Despite the presence and richness of sound, the tension toward silence is its true driving force, generating suspended states which are what i refer to as confident waiting. The Clear Observatory is a sort of never-ending piece, evolving from a cluster of seeds. Its sound sources (acoustic materials and field recordings) are textured and processed using a specific configuration of reverbs and delays to create this spacious 'eyepiece musique', exploring distances and those tiny signals dispersed in a landscape. Massimo Toniutti “For Luigi Nono, silence is part of sound, that is, an extension of sound. This is why Nono's music is so fascinating, because in the long silences of his compositions the audience has the opportunity to... almost create their own music based on what they heard with actual sounds.” Alvise Vidolin ############## Comprised of one long-duration work, Massimo Toniutti's "The Clear Observatory (Eyepiece Musique)" is a poetic study of space and silence in sound. As its ambiences and submerged structures unfurl, washes of layered harmonics lead the listener in a dense hypnotic state - psychoactive music taking a visionary, yet immersive realistic form. A deeply enchanting sonic adventure, which clearly showcases the wizardry of one of the long-standing Italian giants of electroacoustic practice. «The sense of space remains the central pivot around which my new, long, and virtually endless musical piece develops. It's a project that encompasses three different stages: applied music, furniture music, and deep listening. Its roots date back to 2013 when I was commissioned a sound work for a permanent installation in a museum, for which I developed its initial and fundamental core (still pulsating!). By its very nature, this music has characteristics that I love to define as "welcoming", inviting me to revisit it over time until it became my personal 'musique d'ameublement'; it was as if I had forgotten I was its author, enjoying it purely as a listener. But the "welcoming-space" potentials that I recognised in it also invited me to actively participate in events, and the further step was to simultaneously think in terms of listener and composer, leading me to expand the project through new 'furnishings' and an enlargement in time and space.» «A loose-knit structure, discreet and slow, unfolds throughout the duration of the piece, with a fundamentally cyclical and consistent progression, not sparing some new dynamics, unexpected events, and chance. Despite the presence and richness of sound, the tension toward silence is its true driving force, generating suspended states which are what i refer to as confident waiting. “The Clear Observatory” is a sort of never-ending piece, evolving from a cluster of seeds. Its sound sources (acoustic materials and field recordings) are textured and processed using a specific configuration of reverbs and delays to create this spacious 'eyepiece musique', exploring distances and those tiny signals dispersed in a landscape.» [Soundohm partly] ?