Homeward by Michele Andreotti

"Homeward" deals with the symbolic power of the unconscious, seen as a vessel of images and memories shared by human beings from the beginning of their history as a species. The instinctual connection with nature and its processes plunges our dreams into worlds ran by ourselves, yet so unpredictable for our consciousness.
From a sonic perspective, the possibility of manipulating sound in ways that extend its temporal perception and bring to the surface its internal movements became the instrument to mirror the relation between the unconscious portraits of the experience and the conscious mind made up of formal structures.

From the conceptual/technical side, each track of the album was made using one sample (per track) lasting 30 seconds each and taken from eight different "classical" music pieces. Each sample was then mangled using granular techniques in two different ways: the former created the long sustained evolving tones; the latter created the single, shorter and brighter tones obtained playing chopped parts of the samples. The idea of using classical music material has been taken also in order to "evoke" those historical periods in some sonic way whose timbral qualities can be used as another layer of shared collective perceptual memories.

Michele Andreotti studies Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a student, he attends several workshops organized by key figures of the international electronic scene, such as John Chowning and Curtis Roads. In 2017, together with Ivano Pecorini, he released a record titled "Rivera", under the name Curved Grooves, with the roman label Stochastic Resonance. In 2018 he begins to work on the association of electronic sounds and visual material, in particular silent movies, with soundtracks which underpin the will to reveal new relationships between audio and video. In 2019 he gets the three-year degree in Electroacoustic Composition with an analytic thesis about the work of Phill Niblock, and the centrality of perception which distinguishes the whole U.S. composition scene.

élan vital recordings is independent Macedonian music label releasing limited edition of handcrafted CDs and tapes from international artists focused on obscure aspects of sound, accompanied with carefully created artwork and video art. Each release will have limited CD or tape edition with hand numbered and stamped artwork. Sister label of post global recordings.

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