ANTS RECORDS

An hommage to Giacinto Scelsi

'Prakriti' (from the Sanskrit word meaning 'nature' or 'cosmic

energy'), is an exploration of nature through transformation

of natural sounds and integration of them with static drones

obtained mainly stretching and granulating orchestral sounds.

All the sound is generated by a real time system, producing

an infinite and ever-changing combination of sound events, it

has been built using SuperCollider2 on an Apple Macintosh

computer.

Sounds from nature, recorded during a residence in Topolò, a

mountain village in Italy near the Slovenian border, are

metabolized, transformed, distorted, decomposed,

granulated. The raw materials are transformed focusing on

granules and acoustic micro-particles, on the microsound

level and then mixed with orchestral sampled sounds. The

author acts by controlling the evolution of the work and the

generation of new sound events, mixing and spatializing their

stratification, composing the silence.

The enhanced CD is completed by the video "Uomini che

guardano nascere" by Francesco Paladino, with the Fogar's

soundtrack. An poetical elaboration of looks, restless, in a

certain way.

track list

1) Prakriti 42'41"

released 11/12/2003