I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.
At the same time sound sculptures and music instruments, they have been created by the master glassmakers of Murano. In the words of Francesco Cavaliere, these sounding bodies "function as ambivalent musical instruments (idiophones, such as bells, and aerophones, susceptible to air vibrations) for which the two transparent materials par excellence were used: glass, rigid and crystalline, and sound, an intangible element, which moves and organizes through gaseous paths."
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a record of abstract electronics and glass music, a crossing of abyssal paths flown over by a cosmic kite that skims, touches and approaches the thresholds, peaks of both visible and invisible places, and returns the sound that inhabits and surrounds them. "It is a sonic binocular with a thousand eyes" that fogs up and never decides to stop on one or more defined shapes: it is always in movement, bouncing between geometries. The different cells that make up its appearance - crystalline greens, greys and only in some cases orange yellows - were cut out and generated using a 2012 Macintosh OSX computer. Before being arranged, each sound ritually passed through three blown glass sculptures named SÀBANAS I, ALIQUOMANÀS and ENQUOMANÀSC, belonging to the Abyssal Dynasty I.
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
Francesco Cavaliere (born 1980 in Piombino, Tuscany) is an Italian visual artist, writer and sound maker working between Berlin and Turin. His works are capable of enlivening his listeners' inner states through a polymorphic activity that combines writing, sound, voice, drawing, sculpture, which together stimulate the imagination, undertaking long journeys crossed by ephemeral presences. He writes sound stories and music based on particles of sound, noise and language, often integrated with installation and scenographic elements or live performance, showing a particular taste for the most diverse forms of exoticism. Over the years he has developed a veritable dictionary to catalogue the metamorphic beings that inhabit his own abstract fantasy universe: hybrids of objects, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects and physical and perceptual phenomena generated by glass, minerals and voices, recorded and performed with analog technologies.
"I am a talking scribe ... my voice is a cloud, my pen hisses."
Francesco Cavaliere has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, and choreographers, including Leila Hassan, Marcel Türkowsky, Elisabeth Kirche, Ignaz Schick,
Ghédalia Tazartès,
Invernomuto, Lievens Martens Moana/Dolphins Into The Future, Ruben Spini, Annamaria Ajmone, Spencer Clark,
Tomoko Sauvage, Leonardo Pivi, Christopher Kline,
Seiji Morimoto and Amy Franceschini.
