Twelve from Love Album by Giacomo Fargion

Using a limited set of materials -- pristine electronic drums, reed instruments, and truncated non-verbal vocalizations, and a generative MAX patch of his own devising, London-based Giacomo Fargion imagines a person (or.. a machine?) trying to express a feeling (love!) but never quite being able to do so.

Prufrockian robotics aside, Love Album is funny, elegant, surrealist computer music. It could be Noh Theatre performed in a club on another planet.

Giacomo Fargion is a music producer/mastering engineer and experimental electronic composer born and based in London. His work focuses on a broad and idiosyncratic array of genres, sources and strategies, often presented within a deconstructed sound collage. Giacomo enjoys spontaneity and juxtaposition within the sounds used and likes exploring the tension between softness and aggression, energy and playfulness. He often uses self-developed software made in Max MSP.

Within the last few years Giacomo has been involved in a variety of projects: he wrote the music for the Southwark Bridge as part of the Illuminated River project; 'Vive La Phrance', a theatre piece written by Andrea Spreafico, Bergen, Norway; music and sound design for the 'Beasts of London' exhibition at the Museum of London; 'Tunnel of Light’ sound walk installation at Waddesdon Manor House; and Musicity Culture Mile festival in London. His music has been released with First Light Records, Kohlenstoff Records and Laminar Flow Records.

Giacomo also writes and performs in a duo with his sister, Francesca. The performance duo work with very simple means to create witty, challenging yet accessible music. As described in Prxludes Magazine, they emanate a ‘childlike charm performing together’. The Fargions have recently performed at Iklektik, Patchworks, London and Artefact, Birmingham.

Tracklist

12.	Twelve	4:15

Credits

from Love Album, released April 18, 2024

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