MECHANICS by Mauro Basilio
The most characterizing features of improvised music performances are unicity, unpredictability, fragility. They oppose themselves to a basic rule of music industry such as replicability of the artwork.
The album MECHANICS develops a way to preserve these features, to join the unicity of improvised music and the replicability of the physical medium.
Despite a serialized packaging, each copy of the album contains a different recording.
Mauro Basilio recorded, and still goes on recording, lots of improvisations as part of the project MECHANICS (solo for prepared cello).
Each CD or cassette contains some of these improvisations, randomly chosen, which appear on that specimen and nowhere else.
There won't be 2 albums MECHANICS containing the same sounds.
Just a track is the same for all, it's called Antinodes, and you can listen to it here. The other tracks are free improvisations, engraved in unique copy, which makes each album different from the others.
MECHANICS is a work in progress, an uninterrupted musical flow which goes from a device to the other, from a listener to the other.
The total time is between 25' and 30'.
STUDIOFA music publishing by Mauro Basilio.
Improvised and improbable sound objects.