Dear friends,
many of you have a long knowledge at least of the most "popular" side of electronic music. I'd like to let you listen, and possibly enjoy, my last electronic piece. Any judgment or critic is welcome. I'd love for you to try to guess which is the principal "sonic character" in this piece... Also any question on the technical side of the piece is very welcome!
Thanks,
Alessandro

http://soundcloud.com/alessandro-ratoci/fantasia-for-nikola-tesla-4-0

 

This is really notably, but FX and no music track - therefore i woudn´t listen to this as background music at home......
Is this meant to be as part of a movie soundtrack or something like that?

 

ratox: This is very interesting to me. Please elaborate on your process if you like. I enjoyed your piece very much.

 

Dear Alraun,

Things becomes interesting if you try to express when an organized sound stop to be music and start to be "FX" (and the opposite). This may also help to understand music and fx in a proper manner the majority of people that, i know, would rise the same exact question you did.
The purpouse of this piece is to be listened eyes closed, in the silence of a concert hall or theatre surrounded by an octophonic (8 speakers) system, that makes all the movement of left-right but expecially those of proximity-distance well appreciable in a 3D space.

What we do, as composers (that's obviously not my invention) is to propose a kind of repertoire but also a kind of attitude to music in which we don't have pre-formed ideas of what is music (notes, chord, major, minor, eights, quarters?) and what is not.
thanks for having listened to my piece,
Alessandro

 

Dear Mum,
this is one of the very few pieces i just wrote for me, without any commission or professional demand. The sounds you can hear as the "principal" characters are the sound of a (dying!) nocturnal butterfly, a moth (last time i dared to spray insect in my room) and the malfunctioning of an electrical multi-plug. The similarity of their rhythm (which is mostly unaltered but simply cut and rearranged in a more rhythmical way) revealed me directly in the nature of sound (i hate purely conceptual aspects of music) the fact that all the living beings, insects included, have an electrical-based nervous system. I imagined then a story, which is structured around the slow fading out of the insect which is accompanied by a parallel agony of an electrical object. It's a kind of requiem which opens some spaces of imaginations when the dry and "spiked" groove evolves to other sound-objects (electrical machines, music instruments, sounds of cities) like a kind of flashback to different moment of life of these parodistic "living" characters.

I didn't want to annoy you on technical question (how i recorded, edited, transformed) my sounds, but if you are interested in this aspect of work i am glad to share.
Thanks for the attention,
Alessandro