A two-part musique concrète piece by Canedicoda (Ottaven) and Renato Grieco (kNN).
Ehm bypasses the problem of articulation and meaning.
Canedicoda and Renato Grieco, both also known under other artistic guises (Ottaven and kNN), are the sound forgers who have combined these spaces of presence and present in a paralyzed intersperse. A composition in the making, sensitive, which almost builds itself. Backgrounds of the environment, silence and noise ferment in a flow of micro-dynamics, moments of intangibility and turning nodes. Ehm is concrete music and tactility of hearing: powder sound. In that sleep cycle where the dream occurs only to be forgotten. In search of a non-narrative, Canedicoda and Renato Grieco propose stasis as will. A two-part suite, whose titlesspeak for themselves: A): "It is possible that the focus falls on an impalpable matter. I address the body of the volume, as if it could take and not take place at the same time. They are not hairs but teams.", and B) "Readily exposed to the cold and folded in three moments. A space, a sharp pain shrowded in the air: contact generates rustles. The sound of nothingness, the name we would like to give to void for a moment, rising beard."
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
Canedicoda (Giovanni Donadini, born 1979 in Treviso, Italy) is a Milan-based multi-disciplinary artist active in music, performance, design and fashion fields. He developed a rich, personally distinctive universe that is constantly changing but always immediately recognisable. A pivotal figure bringing and spreading to Italy several innovative and liminal currents of artistic, stylistic and musical pursuit, his experience includes a vast number of projects in cooperation with record labels, non-profit spaces, groups and artists both in Italy and beyond. Since 2003 Canedicoda has developed his own personal research on language, style and method, creating his own label. Canedicoda is also active in the field of music under the pseudonym of Ottaven and carries out research on the sound, and the body as a medium of expression of actions and situations created by the music through repetitive gestures of performative matrix.
Among consolidated artistic collaborations: Matteo Castro, Roberta Mosca, Valentina Lucchetti,
Luigi Presicce,
Kinkaleri,
Alessandro Bosetti, Anna Maria Ajmone, Cristina Rizzo,
Carlos Casas, Jungen Tagen, Dennys Tyfus,
Renato Grieco/kNN. He teaches Textile design at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and Science and technologies of materials at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Renato Grieco (aka kNN, born 1991) is a composer and musician from Naples, active in the field of musique concrète, acousmatic, sound-art and radio-art. He is engaged on the themes of listening, recording, archiving, storytelling, voice and speech. He questions space through production, recording, organization and dissemination of sounds.
After starting out as a double bass player, he ventured into composing music for fixed media, under the moniker kNN. Immersing himself in active research, he experimented with the arrangement of one or more sound sources in a habitable context; he imagined and designed objects or spaces for listening, both physical and virtual; he has spoken inside some objects; he listened through other objects. His work has very little to do with the so-called "acoustic ecology". He believes in absolute waste and carnival. He tries not to align with the hordes that place sound practices among scientific or purely theoretical disciplines. He considers listening as a cognitive activity per se, affecting the intellect and the body with its semantics, humor and tragic nature.
Renato Grieco, who defines himself as a "sound enthusiast", was co-curator of the festival La Digestion–rarely heard music in Naples, and has collaborated with several musicians and ensembles including MP Hopkins,
Valerio Tricoli,
Evan Parker,
Xavier Charles, Ingar Zach, Elio Martusciello, Tom White, ensemble Dissonanzen,
Canedicoda. He is also a lecturer, sound dramaturg and sound engineer. He has released records for the labels Pseudomagica, Canti Magnetici, Glistening Examples, Regional Bears, Chocolate Monk, Dinzu Artifact, Falt, Granny, Toxo, Mikroton,
Xing.
