morceau de bleu / barbara de dominicis, alessandro ciccarelli, cristian maddalena. 2025

๐‘ด๐‘ถ๐‘น๐‘ช๐‘ฌ๐‘จ๐‘ผ ๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ฉ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ๐‘ผ
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’“๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐‘ซ๐’† ๐‘ซ๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’”, ๐‘จ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’“๐’ ๐‘ช๐’Š๐’„๐’„๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š, ๐‘ช๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’๐’‚
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’“๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐‘ซ๐’† ๐‘ซ๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’”, voice, live electronics
๐‘จ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’“๐’ ๐‘ช๐’Š๐’„๐’„๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š, trombone, live electronics
๐‘ช๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’๐’‚, shamisen, live electronics

โ€œ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ. ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€
๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, ๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ด

Suspended between concert form and installation performance, Morceau de bleu is a work in progress that arises from the collaboration of sound artists Barbara De Dominicis, Alessandro Ciccarelli, and Cristian Maddalena, in an open, ever-changing dialogue freely inspired by Maggie Nelsonโ€™s poetic horizon.

Bluets serves as the premise for a profound sonic investigation, anchored in a fragmented and multifaceted poetic language. It offers a perceptual experience that, like an ideal score, leads the audience to explore a liminal dimension of the self, shifting between active acoustic reception and surrender, between dreaming and waking.

Video recorded on January 26, 2025, at Francesco Zielloโ€™s Stanze Sonore at Recherche.
Set design and lighting by Vittoria Faro, video footage by Francesco Ziello, audio and video editing by Alessandro Ciccarelli,
Barbara Ded, Cristian Maddalena

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Like many artists during the Covid period, HUM, the quintet of Cristiano Bocci (electronics); Alessandro Ciccarelli (trombone and electronics); Andrea Fabris (percussion and electronics); Giovanni Falascone (piano and electronics); and Alessandro Gambato (electric guitar and electronics); began collaborating remotely. The musicians are members of the BlueRing Electronics collective, which came together under the auspices of northern Italyโ€™s BlueRing Improvisers Association in 2020. In October 2023 the five assembled in Milan for a residency that culminated in a live performance, the results of which are documented here on three tracks.

Frame, a graphic score by composer Giovanni Sparano, opens the album. The score is composed of various sections corresponding to parameters including timbre, textural density, pitch, and dynamics. HUMโ€™s performance leaves plenty of open spaces for the voices of acoustic piano and metallic percussion to make themselves heard in between electronics-dense passages. The second performance is a collective improvisation that begins with a duet for muted trombone and piano and moves through sections for percussion, electronics, samples, and points beyond, ending with a reprise of acoustic piano. The final track is a realization of another graphic score, this time by composer Massimiliano Viel. The tone here is generally more somber and the sounds drawn out; as with the previous two performances, the group demonstrates a sophisticated sense of balancing open and closed sonic spaces.

https://avantmusicnews.com/2024/11/10/amn-reviews-hum-live-in-milano-elli-records-el57/

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AMN Reviews: HUM โ€“ Live in Milano [Elli Records EL57]

Like many artists during the Covid period, HUM, the quintet of Cristiano Bocci (electronics); Alessandro Ciccarelli (trombone and electronics); Andrea Fabris (percussion and electronics); Giovanni โ€ฆ