Label: Dissipatio

アーリー・エレクトロニクス好きは是非!!Troglosoundからの音源で知られるあのNew Jooklo Ageのメンバーとして活動、不定期ながらこれまでIkuisuus、Canti Magneticiより興味深い音作品を出版してきたDevid Ciampalini。本作は恐らく初めての試みとなるであろうSFをテーマとした電子音楽作品[Eterna]。過去に体験したテレビから聞こえる効果音や奇妙なサウンドデザイン、そしてバーナード・ハーマン、ヤニス・クセナキスからの影響を落とし込んだエレクトロニクス表現の探求。







Limited Edition 200 copies

Comes in a 6 panels matt digisleeve with glass master CD

Set in the year 3388 on the planet Eterna to craft a metaphysical chronicle exploring sci-fi themes in the surreal style of authors such Roland Topor, Frank Herbert, Moebius and Panos Cosmatos. Images of ‘void assemblies’, ‘meta-human faculties’, ‘synods’ and ‘masters of expression’ help visualize a stratified universe of power plays, arcane arts and cryptic technologies.
Musically, the album is informed by the grandeur of weird-futuristic TV bumpers from the 90's and a long tradition of audio effects sound design, bringing together the works of maestros like Bernard Herrmann and Iannis Xenakis with synthesizers electronic audio experimentation.
Sound explores minimal and textural articulations as much as picturing more complex and dense sceneries by means of composition.
Eterna weaves its musical narrative through a convergence of layered soundscapes and careful programming toward distant societies and empires.
Genre conventions are employed as imaginific sensory experiences thriving in what might lie just beyond the compositions.
Music is a device engaging phenomena that can only be heard and casting the long shadows of otherworldly things before they even appear.
Divided in 10 different chapters and an introduction (prelude), the work experiments with transmedial narratives and musico-literary world-building using FM synthesis, tapes and software instrumentation to craft an outlandish cosmic realm by means of suggestive analog manipulations.
(Luigi Monteanni)