ƒuocoƒatuo - live at A.R.X. recorded at C3 (Milano) on Sept. 23, 2022 gets released today ✨
We’re glad to be back after a while and just before the Summer solstice with the first of a series of physical releases that will see the light in the next year. We will disclose more details from September on, in the meanwhile here’s a taste of what will come.
Double Fosfo Green C60 Cassette enclosed in UV printed case with gramophone needle and black wax seal - LTD edition of 23.
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Operating on four turntables and effect pedals to investigate the potential of analog media and their particular textures through alchemical processes of stratification, materialization and enchantment, ƒuocoƒatuo dissolves and crystalize an unspecified number of sonic elements collected over years of exploration in dusty and obscure physical and digital archives.
Mixtape by ƒuocoƒatuo (Jil, xàr num)
Recorded by C3 S R
Manifesto by xàr num
Design by @francescotosini_
Mastered at @tapewave__studio
Pro-dubbed at Weird Tapes
TBT 🔄 Fuuull freeform manipulation of images (+ sound) from @luca_benini_07 + @slamjam archives X ‘Archive Continuum’, a collection of video essays curated by @kaleidoscopemagazine .
Expanding on the theme of KALEIDOSCOPE’s current Fall/Winter issue, “Archive Continuum” is an online symposium dedicated to the archive as an ever-evolving platform for creative investigation and cataloguing, which has also affirmed itself as an aesthetics and a state of mind.
Thanks to
@lil__emoji@daria.miricola
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One of my fav artwork for @ambientravexp mixtape series:
Mysteris of Atlantis a saga by @vittoria.totale & @serpentinedance 🧚🏻♀️+🧚🏻♀️
Link in stories or search for A.R.X. On bandcamp!
Questa domenica 26 maggio, a Campogalliano, in occasione della prima Festa dei Pioppi, presenterò Pioppo Ciao, il mio primo film scritto e diretto con Luca @alberonero_
Luca Francesco duecentonovanta pioppi del campo, il fiume Secchia, l’amicizia di pianura, in colloquio giocoso surreale drammatico che lentamente se ne va scomparendo nel luogo.
Luca Francesco two hundred and ninety poplars in the field the river Secchia the friendship of the plains in playful surreal dramatic conversation slowly fading away in the place.
🌳🤍🫂
Un grazie a:
@sara_barbanti@piezopz@fre_nci@fb
Last month, within the walls of @associazionebarriera , I presented “Godspeed”! Curated by the incredibly sweet and special Claudia @cbagnoli_ , who understands and shares the vision, “Godspeed” pays tribute to my devotion to fractal geometries, but most importantly, to the star my grandmother, Nonna Milena, gazes at every night before going to bed. Transitioning my research from video-feedback to a tangible form, I opted to create a moving sculpture using a fractal star, a symbol that encapsulates the most visible rules of recursion (still, to me, the best evidence of the divine imprint in nature), and crafted it in mirror to represent the most common experience of feedback for human beings. Rotating in a perpetual loop, the star’s movement is accompanied by a cyclical musical composition composed by my dear friend and collaborator, Pappa @ppsychic.nomad . Special thanks to lovely souls Zenz @zenzerata and Eli @anchorel for their invaluable and essential technical support, Pella @npellla delivering striking graphics, and last but not least, to @matta___________ , for always being by my side!
My digital memory, or rather, my little epistemological garden! Pages like spaces not pages like pages. Spaces that grows! In time, in time! - in tiny times - in tiny ways!
Route-Teaching-Intention-Visible iteration-Love:
for the past 6 years I dedicated most of my research in exploring a technique called video-feedback.
“Feedback” is a process that refers to both living things and technology, and occurs when the exit of a system is reported back to its entrance.
This connection generates an organic growth which, based on its audio or visual nature, develops by following an autonomous behaviour.
An example is the shriek we hear when a singer sings too close to a microphone- the voice is played back through the speaker and grows recursively, creating a complex stratification of sound.
In video feedback, growth processes are determined by light modulations. If these modulations are done correctly, you’ll get images that look like sea, like desert formations, like clouds, like zebras stripes, like finger prints, like microchips, like orchids, like fire, like men. Bits and pieces that remind us of almost anything that can be found in the real world.
Exploring these behaviours was a process I chose to face in solitude. It taught me to observe life processes as a moving structure, influenced by attractors and objects that exist in an energetic flux. Growth, be it personal, artistic or biological, requires unmixed attention to occur, and unmixed attention, to cite Simone Weil, is prayer.
In an effort to communicate this understanding into a body of work that could be immediate to the people around me, I asked 90 friends to send a picture of their choice, and created one-minute feedback loops from every image I received. Spontaneously I made music for each one.
The core of this work is the link between me and each individual who gave an input for a process to begin- my way of reflecting on the nature of these relationships, of intertwining them with my research, and giving thanks to both.
The result is a hypnotic visual composition, a sentimental aggregate of pixels that became Supercarillon.
All videos will be posted on Instagram daily, and uploaded as a whole on my digital memory,
