MATTEO TUNDO (IT) - PIETRO DOSSENA (IT)
Cyanotype (7'34")

HAOZHE TAM (UK)
If the struggle brings you the color of existence (6'21" - 2024)

ANDREW WHARTON (US) - ESS WHITELEY (US)
.noocambridæ. (10'32")

DAVID MERRILL (US)
A Temple Garden (7'55")

MATTEO TUNDO (IT) - PIETRO DOSSENA (IT) Cyanotype
Il brano struttura un percorso processuale che richiama l'idea della discesa di un flusso inarrestabile. Suoni e immagini si dispiegano lungo una traiettoria in continua evoluzione, ma sempre in relazione all'evento generatore iniziale. L'intera componente musicale prende vita da suoni di sintesi, in particolare, per modelli fisici e modulazione di frequenza dando vita a timbri naturali e artificiali, successivamente scolpiti con filtri risonanti, granulazione, riverberazione. L’ambiente sonoro si arricchisce di sfumature fluide e stratificate, capaci di mantenere viva la tensione generata dal primo gesto e di trasportare l’ascoltatore in un flusso in continua metamorfosi.

HAOZHE TAN (CN) If the struggle brings you the color of existence (2024)
Open your eyes and look at this pale world, spirit and substance, nihility and existence, the false self and the real self. Maybe the flashy virtual will make you indulge, maybe the ephemeral comfort will make you choose to compromise, but only after truly fighting against nihility and experiencing struggles and pains, you can find your own color in this pale world.

ANDREW WHARTON (US) - ESS WHITELEY (US) Noocambridæ
Synthetic/Organic, digital/biological, virtual/actual, noocambriidæ brings into being monstrous entities that are born out of the compost pile of the collective unconscious as it operates through cyberspace. Though the exact date and attribution are uncertain, the term ‘noosphere’ is commonly linked to Vladimir Vernadsky, Teilhard de Chardin and Edouard Le Roy, as early as the mid-1920s. This concept refers to the third stage in the earth’s development, where the emergence of human cognition will fundamentally alter the geosphere and biosphere of the earth. noocambriidæ positions the noosphere not just as an emergent field, but as a substrate where entities can come into being. Through 3D animation and 10-channel spatialized sound, noocambriidæ acts as a nooscope into this realm of more-than-human behaviors, speculating on a second cambrian explosion of autonomous creatural forms born out of primordial cyborg potentials.

DAVID MERRILL (US) A Temple Garden
This is the story of a strange obsession. The Garden of the Temple of Peace was sculpted in 1947, in the ruins of Hiroshima. The artist was a twenty-two-year-old hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) named Itaro Yamana. Almost eighty years later, I am recreating this garden as an extension of a very personal but difficult to explain attachment. This video documents a part of that obsession, presenting some of Yamana's early prototype gardens, and in sound providing some sense of the   interior experience of modeled earth.